Sara Sybesma Tolsma , Ph.D., Northwestern University. Joined the faculty in 1995. Fred Van Dyke , Ph.D., State University of New York-Syracuse. Joined the faculty in 1993. The parasitic nematodes, or roundworms, Davis studies come from the intestinal tracts of hogs, and his research applies to developing drugs to combat both hog and human parasites.
Roundworms are among the world's leading disease-causing organisms.
Davis will spend the summer 2001 purchasing equipment and getting his lab set up. In the fall he will teach half time and reasearch half time with the help of five student researchers and his biology colleagues. Read more . . . D. scholars program at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, studying the immunology regarding complications created by cirrhosis of the liver as a result of alcohol. Josh Espelund '02 participated in the Interdisciplinary Bioscience Undergraduate Summer Research Program at the University of Iowa.