Around Campus - Human Anatomy & Physiology I Lab

Posted by Andy Cunningham on October 23, 2025 at 9:30 AM

Biology and Chemistry Professor Elizabeth DiLoreto reviews skeletal structure with students in her Human Anatomy & Physiology I Lab in the Antonucci Science Complex. The course explores the structure and function of the human organism on the cellular, tissue, organ, and system levels. Cellular metabolism, histology, and the following systems: skeletal, muscular, and nervous (including the special senses) are examined. The laboratory emphasizes both physiology and the dissection of preserved mammalian specimens. 

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Topics: Health and Natural Sciences

Around Campus - Biochemical Techniques

Posted by Andy Cunningham on October 20, 2025 at 9:45 AM

Students in Biology and Chemistry Professor Billy Samulak's Biochemical Techniques course work on an experiment in the Antonucci Science Complex. This course introduces students to the most commonly used techniques in a biochemistry lab. Students get hands-on experience with techniques such as buffer preparation, spectrophotometry, recombinant protein expression, protein purification, column chromatography, gel electrophoresis, Western blotting, affinity purification, enzyme activity assays. 

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Topics: Health and Natural Sciences

Nursing Simulation Laboratory; Post-operative Care

Posted by Andy Cunningham on October 17, 2025 at 9:30 AM

Nursing students worked through a post-operative patient care scenario in our Nursing Simulation Laboratory. Walter should have been wearing his compression boots.

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Topics: Nursing Program, Health and Natural Sciences

President Hodge Tours Nursing Simulation Lab

Posted by Andy Cunningham on October 14, 2025 at 1:30 PM

Nursing Simulation Lab Director Ian Murray, Nursing Department Chair Deborah Benes, and Nursing faculty Heather Wironen gave a tour of our Nursing Simulation Lab. After the tour, President Hodge shared; "That’s why this program matters so much. What I saw in the lab—students practicing with focus and humanity—reminded me that investing in nursing education is not just about the university. It’s about the quality of care every one of us hopes for when we or someone we love needs it most."

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Topics: Nursing Program, Health and Natural Sciences, President

Around Campus - Abstract Algebra

Posted by Andy Cunningham on October 14, 2025 at 9:14 AM

Students in Mathematics Professor Sarah Wright's Abstract Algebra course get ready to work on algebraic structures, including groups, rings and fields. 

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Topics: Health and Natural Sciences, Mathematics

Nursing Foundations Lab; Patient Scenarios

Posted by Andy Cunningham on October 9, 2025 at 3:30 PM

Nursing  work through various patient scenarios in their Nursing Foundations Lab. In this course, emphasis is placed on professionalism, caring, communication, cultural considerations, spirituality, sexuality and health promoting activities. 

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Topics: Nursing Program, Health and Natural Sciences

Around Campus - General Physics II

Posted by Andy Cunningham on September 29, 2025 at 2:14 PM

Environmental, Geographic and Public Health Sciences Professor Jiang Yu helps students map the magnetic field in her General Physics II course. This second-semester general college physics course consists of studies and applications of wave motions, sound, electricity, magnetism, light and optics. Typical topics include Coulomb's law, electric force and field, potential and capacitance, electric circuits, magnetic force and field, magnetic forces on moving charges, electric induction, laws of reflection and refraction, mirrors and lenses, optical instruments, interference and diffraction of light.

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Topics: Health and Natural Sciences, Engineering Technology

Around Campus - Human Anatomy & Physiology Lab

Posted by Andy Cunningham on September 22, 2025 at 9:30 AM

Biology and Chemistry Professor Daniel Welsh works with students in his  Human Anatomy & Physiology 1 course lab. The course provides a detailed examination of the structure and function of the human body on the cellular, tissue, and organ system levels. Cellular metabolism, histology, and the skeletal, muscular, nervous, endocrine systems and special senses are examined. 

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Topics: Health and Natural Sciences

Around Campus - General Chemistry I Lab

Posted by Andy Cunningham on September 19, 2025 at 11:30 AM

Students in Biology and Chemistry Professor Steven Fiedler's General Chemistry I Lab work on an assignment in the Antonucci Science Complex. This course explores the fundamental laws and theories of chemistry such as atomic structure, the periodic table, electrochemistry, descriptive inorganic chemistry, the gas laws, solutions, equilibrium calculations and chemical bonding. 

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Topics: Health and Natural Sciences

Around Campus - Medical Microbiology Lab

Posted by Andy Cunningham on September 17, 2025 at 9:45 AM

Students in Biology and Chemistry Professor Dr. Sean Rollins' Medical Microbiology course performed various procedures in their lab in the Antonucci Science Complex. The course serves as an introduction to the biology of major groups of micro-organisms including bacteria, viruses, protozoa, and fungi. Emphasis is placed on their relationship to man as agents of infectious diseases. In the laboratory principles and practices of aseptic techniques and diagnostic identification and culture of disease entities are explored.

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Topics: Health and Natural Sciences

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