Tonia Hsieh, assistant professor of biology in Temple’s College of Science and Technology, has been studying how lizards maintain their balance and quickly recover from slipping while navigating changing environmental conditions. The results could have future implications for the elderly, robotics and a better overall understanding of locomotor control.

In the past three years, more than 300 undergraduate students in Temple’s College of Science and Technology have put the theories and concepts they’ve learned in the classroom to use in the labs of faculty researchers on the university’s Main and Health Sciences campuses.

Professor Ilya Buynevich and his students dug down 23 feet below the ground at Sewell Point in Cape May, N.J. The seaside detectives were looking for clues that would reveal how coastal wetlands evolved in prehistoric times.

The National Science Foundation has awarded two new grants to investigators in Temple University’s colleges of Education, Liberal Arts and Science and Technology to help strengthen the supply of future scientists.

Biology Professor Allen Nicholson co-organized a six-day international conference, “Post-transcriptional Control of Gene Expression: Mechanisms of mRNA Decay,” held September 14-19 in Lucca, Italy.

In an effort to better reflect its growth in both people and areas of expertise, the Geology Department in the College of Science and Technology has formally changed its name to Earth and Environmental Science.