Hi everyone,

Biology Club will be meeting this Monday, April 1. We will have guest speaker Natasha Dillon from the Physiology Graduate Program. Their Masters of science and PhD program offer a research-based degree. The Master of Physiology program is a non-thesis degree and serves to prepare students to improve their academic credentials before applying to professional school, while also advancing their knowledge in the subject of Physiology. If you are interested in pursuing a future degree beyond your undergraduate years, definitely come to hear about the program. As usual, we will meet in David Clark Labs 102 at 5:30 pm. 

Also, on Saturday, April 6, the Biology Club will volunteer at the 11th Annual Neuse River Cleanup (www.neuseriver.org/events/neuserivercleanup.html#2013).  We will be working on foot to cleanup the shoreline of Crabtree Creek in North Raleigh.  We will meet at NCSU at 9:30 am and volunteer until about 2 pm.  If you would like to participate or have any questions about the cleanup, please email Gabrielle at gmschroe@ncsu.edu by Wednesday, April 3. She will speak more about the project at the meeting. 

I hope you all have a great break, and see you on Monday!

Ashvi Patel

President

Biology Club

Hey everyone,

Just a reminder, we have a meeting tomorrow, Monday, March 18, at 5:30 pm in 102 David Clark Labs.  Dr. Chris Ashwell, the director of the Office of Undergraduate Research, will be speaking to the club about some of the undergraduate research opportunities and resources available at NCSU, as well as more general advice on becoming involved in undergraduate research. 

Also, as I am sure you know, Service Raleigh is coming up this Saturday, March 23. We do not have many members signed up for our group as of now. We are assigned to work with the NC Muesem of Natural Sciences. If anyone is still interested in coming, definitely please sign up for it here at this link: 

 http://www.serviceraleigh.org/registeredGroups.php

Because they only let up to a certain number of volunteers register, you may or may not be able to still register. Absolutely do try to do so though if you would still like to volunteer. Our group name is Biology Club and the password is bio123. 

We will talk about it at the meeting tomorrow, but if you have any questions for now, you can email me at apatel5@ncsu.edu. Thanks and I hope to see you the meeting tomorrow!

Ashvi Patel

Service Opportunity

Hello club members,

First, a service opportunity that can fulfill the Biology Club service requirement (one service event per semester):.Baileywick Elementary School is looking for students who would be interested in volunteering a couple hours of their time to talk to Kindergarteners through 5th graders about their science projects at their Science Expo.  The Baileywick Science Expo is not set up as a competition.  The evaluators give the young scientists an opportunity to talk about what they learned.  The Science Expo is on Thursday March 14th from 5:45 to 8:00 pm, and Baileywick Elementary is located at 9425 Baileywick Road, Raleigh, NC 27615  (near Creedmore Rd. and Hwy 540).  If you are interested, please see the attached flyer after this post for more information and contact Mary Roach, the Baileywick Science Expo Evaluator Coordinator, at mebroach12@gmail.com. 

Additionally, some of you may be interested in attending a seminar tomorrow.  The Department of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (MEAS) at the North Carolina State University will be hosting a seminar on March 11th from 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm at 1216 Jordan Addition.  Ken Lacovara, Ph.D, Associate Professor for the Department of Biology at Drexel University, will be speaking about "Giants at the End of the World: Recent Dinosaur Discoveries from Southernmost Patagonia, Argentina."  Please see the abstract at the end of this post for more information.

Best,

Gabrielle Schroeder

Vice President

NCSU Biology Club

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