Biology news

Northwestern junior Joseph Tolsma will serve as a Young Evangelicals for Climate Action Climate Leadership Fellow.

Emma Wynja, a 2015 Northwestern graduate, is spending the summer as part of a research team at Sanford Research in Sioux Falls.

Northwestern College has been recognized as a 2015 Groundwater Guardian Green Site for its groundwater and environmental stewardship.

Northwestern biology prof Dr. Sara Sybesma Tolsma has been named this year’s recipient of the Northwestern Teaching Excellence Award.

Eleven Northwestern profs will conduct summer research with funding from the Northwestern College Scholarship Grants program.

Dr. Byron Noordewier, professor of biology at Northwestern, is the recipient of the college’s 2015 Faculty Inspirational Service Award.

Northwestern College honored a number of faculty and staff members at a banquet held on May 4.

Northwestern College will offer two new majors—biochemistry and worship arts—beginning this fall.

Ed Fallon, an environmental activist who is walking the Iowa stretch of the proposed Bakken oil pipeline, will speak at Northwestern on April 16.

Several NWC professors and students will present research at the Iowa Academy of Science meeting in Iowa City.