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Find out how a Davidson College biology professor is collaborating with colleagues to open up the English-dominated field of modern science to the Navajo community.
Learn more about the tick outlook for this summer and what you can do to stay safe from a Davidson College biology professor.
Davidson College students named Goldwater Scholars. Already on the path to promising futures in scientific research, Paul Gomez ’22 and Andrea Liu ’23 are among a select group of students nationwide to receive the award.
As the FDA clears the way for a third vaccine in the United States, Americans face down a deluge of misinformation about the shots and their potential side effects. Davidson College and Atrium Health brought together experts with wide-ranging perspectives to shed light on the country’s vaccination program—its promise and challenges.
Davidson College ranked sixth in two of the last three years, strengthening its role as a top producer of Fulbright scholars. This year's baker's dozen joined last year's 13 Davidson students that have earned admission into the federal government’s flagship international educational exchange program. Their plans will now dispatch them around the globe as the pandemic recedes.
We asked Dave Wessner, biology professor at Davidson College, whose post-doctoral research focused on coronaviruses, to offer insights on questions about the COVID variants emerging around the world.
As COVID-19 cases in the United States surge, vaccine distribution is under way across the country. Dave Wessner, biology professor at Davidson College, shares his insight on the promise and potential challenges of the vaccines.
Virginia Gilliland has spent the past few months feeling like a fish out of the ocean. That’s how life seems when you swam nearly every day since childhood, and a pandemic shuts down pools.
Lydia Soifer’s favorite moments usually involve a forest.
From waking up to the cries of howler monkeys in the Amazon Rainforest, to hiking to the top of a mountain to get to a cloud forest in Australia, she feels joy in the midst of trees.
Soden’s love for bees inspired her research about their immune systems. Now the Davidson College biology major, accomplished tennis player and traumatic brain injury survivor has received a 2020 Goldwater Scholarship.
Dave Wessner, biology professor and interim chair of health and human values, appeared on the Bloomberg Businessweek podcast yesterday.
As a new strain of coronavirus spreads worldwide, Dave Wessner is seizing on this teachable moment.
Know what you’re breathing. That’s a message Karen Bernd and Cindy Hauser hope to convey about hookahs and e-cigarettes. The Davidson College professors don’t scold, but instead arm their students with research.
With six U.S. Fulbright grant recipients, Davidson College lands among the top producers of Fulbright students and scholars nationally.
Ellie Mackintosh and Hossein Bakhshandeh are seeking better, more targeted cancer treatments. Katie Barlis is searching for clues to understand and treat neurological disorders like Alzheimer’s Disease.