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Advances in stem cell research have given medical researchers even more hope that organs such as kidneys and livers grown outside the body will in the next few years be an option to help patients awaiting transplants, according to a world-renowned researcher and surgeon who lectured March 26 at ¸£ÀûÑÇÖÞ¹ú²ú¾«Æ· as the keynote speaker for the annual meeting of the North Carolina Academy of Science.

Biology professors Antonio Izzo and Yuko Miyamoto, and Rick Palmer, academic technology consultant with teaching and learning technologies (TLT), presented their year-and-a-half-long collaboration at the 2011 Lilly Conference on College & University Teaching in Greensboro, N.C., on February 4-6.

Michael Terribilini, assistant professor of biology, has published a co-authored article, PRIDB: a protein-RNA interface database.

The ¸£ÀûÑÇÖÞ¹ú²ú¾«Æ· Board of Trustees voted Oct. 22 to designate a 56-acre undeveloped tract north of University Drive as the ¸£ÀûÑÇÖÞ¹ú²ú¾«Æ· Forest, a dedicated land preserve and natural area. The action protects the largest remaining intact forest in the Town of Elon and safeguards thousands of species of plants, animals and other organisms.

This month, Elon students from Dave Gammon's Science Without Borders class presented museum-style science demos to approximately 100 fourth-graders from Elon Elementary School.