Every member of the Biology Department is engaged in original research and works closely with students in independent study projects or summer research. Current research interests of Coe biologists are described below.
Many students spend a summer in an off-campus research laboratory.
In past summers, Coe biology students have worked with scientists at Mayo Clinic, Northwest Missouri State , University of Iowa , University of Chicago , The Nature Conservancy , Linn County Conservation Department , Cargill, Inc. , Penford Products , Pierce Laboratories, Oak Ridge National Laboratories, Argonne National Laboratory and others. These positions are supported by the National Science Foundation, The Howard Hughes Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, and the Department of Energy. For a description of recent student summer projects , follow this link. Faculty Dr. Hadow Dr. Hadow is currently on sabbatical for the fall semester. He is using his sabbatical to write reports on his ornithological studies in Costa Rica and his mammalian studies of clearcut areas in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area in northern Minnesota.