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Shoals course sets Cornell senior on a path to study parasites
Originally published at CALS online. Lauren Quevillon, a senior Biology major currently “consumed by tests,” vividly remembers the reason she decided to pursue science: Richard Preston’s book The Hot Zone. “I fell in love with science then and there,” she recalled. During her freshman year at Cornell, Quevillon learned about the Biodiversity & Biology of Marine Invertebrates [...] -
Inspired by alumna, student teaches two crabs to toll a bell
Originally published at the Cornell Chronicle “I am going to train a crab to ring a bell,” said a determined Lily Strassberg this summer at a four-credit Marine Environmental Science course at Shoals Marine Laboratory, Cornell’s marine field station. And indeed she did. The course immersed high school juniors and seniors like Strassberg, a junior at Newton (Massachusetts) [...]