Board of Trustees promote three faculty members in department
The following members of the biological sciences faculty were promoted to associate professor with tenure by the Lehigh University Board of Trustees in May, 2019.
Greg Lang, Ph.D. Associate Professor |
Greg Lang, Ph.D.
Greg was awarded a B.S. in Molecular Biology from Millersville University of Pennsylvania and went on to earn his doctoral degree from Harvard University. Prior to his arrival at Lehigh, Lang spent six years as a post-doctoral fellow in David Botstein’s laboratory at Princeton University. Dr. Lang’s research is aimed at understanding the molecular basis of evolution. The Lang laboratory is using yeast to address fundamental questions in microbial evolution: (1) How does selection shape the genome? (2) How does the structure of the genome constrain evolution? (3) Are evolutionary outcomes reproducible? (4) What role do chance and determinism play in evolution?”
Julie Miwa, Ph.D. Associate Professor |
Julie Miwa, Ph.D.
Julie received her undergraduate degree in Neurobiology from UC Berkeley and her Ph.D. from The Rockefeller Univ. in Neuroscience. She did postdoctoral work at Rockfeller Univ. and trained at Yale Univ. in the Psychiatry Department. Her research focus is on understanding how the lynx1 gene suppresses learning potential on a cellular level. This work is valuable in studying the loss of brain activity (e.g. stroke, traumatic brain injury), in cases of memory problems (e.g. Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias), and neurodevelopmental disorders when correct circuit development in the brain was disrupted. Her work encompasses molecular biology and genetics, as well as behavioral research.
Amber Rice, Ph.D. Associate Professor |
Amber Rice, Ph.D.
Amber received her undergraduate degree in Biology from the College of Wooster in 2001 and her Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina in 2008. She then served as a postdoctoral researcher at Uppsala University in Sweden,. Dr. Rice moved back to North Carolina for a short postdoc before moving to Bethlehem to join the faculty at Lehigh in 2011. Rice is an evolutionary biologist. Her research focuses on the roles of species interactions, such as competition and hybridization, in speciation. Dr. Rice uses a combination of ecological field studies and genetic analyses in her work. Her current projects focus is on speciation in local populations of chickadees.
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