Biology Faculty

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Harry Itagaki, Chair

Professor of Biology

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P: (740) 427-5394

E: itagaki@kenyon.edu


Campus Address
Higley Hall 108

Areas of Expertise

Neurobiology, mechanisms of perception and reaction to stimuli, physiological and anatomical bases of gustation (taste) in insects, metabolic physiology.

Chris Bickford

Associate Professor of Biology

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P: (740) 427-5941

E: bickfordc@kenyon.edu


Campus Address
Higley Hall 215

Areas of Expertise

Environmental plant physiology, stable isotopes in plant ecology and plant physiology, plant carbon-water relations, leaf spectral properties

Heather Fair

Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology

P: (740) 427-5030

E: fair2@kenyon.edu


Campus Address
Higley Hall 204

Siobhan Fennessy

Prof of Bio; Philip & Sheila Jordan Prof in Enviro Studies

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P: (740) 427-5455

E: fennessym@kenyon.edu


Campus Address
Higley Hall 205

Areas of Expertise

Aquatic ecology, wetland plant community dynamics, landscape ecology.

Chris Gillen

Professor of Biology

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P: (740) 427-5399

E: gillenc@kenyon.edu


Campus Address
Higley Hall 310

Areas of Expertise

Animal physiology, salt and water balance physiology

Ray Heithaus

Professor Emeritus of Environmental Science and Biology

Naturalist, Brown Family Environmental Center

P: (740) 427-.

E: heithaus@kenyon.edu

Karen Hicks

Professor of Biology

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P: (740) 427-5379

E: hicksk@kenyon.edu


Campus Address
Fischman 102

Areas of Expertise

Plant molecular and developmental genetics.

Andrew Kerkhoff

Professor of Biology

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P: (740) 427-5734

E: kerkhoffa@kenyon.edu


Campus Address
Higley Hall 301

Areas of Expertise

Scaling and macroecology, plant and insect herbivore communities

Iris Levin

Assist Prof of Biology & Environmental Studies

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P: (740) 427-5640

E: levin1@kenyon.edu


Campus Address
Higley Hall 305

Areas of Expertise

Behavioral ecology, evolutionary ecology, disease ecology. 

Robert Mauck

Professor of Biology

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P: (740) 427-5076

E: mauckr@kenyon.edu


Campus Address
Higley Hall 107

Areas of Expertise

Animal behavior, physiological ecology

Jennifer McMahon

Lead Instructor & Director of Introductory Labs in Biology

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P: (740) 427-5225

E: mcmahonj@kenyon.edu


Campus Address
Higley Hall 201

Areas of Expertise

Plant secondary compounds, Pedagogy

Sarah Petersen

Ashby Denoon Assistant Professor of Neuroscience

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P: (740) 427-5259

E: petersens@kenyon.edu


Campus Address
Samuel Mather Hall 118

Areas of Expertise

Neurodevelopment and genetics, synaptic remodeling, myelinating glia.

Wade Powell

Professor of Biology

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P: (740) 427-5396

E: powellw@kenyon.edu


Campus Address
Fischman 202

Areas of Expertise

Molecular biology, environmental toxicology.

Arianna Smith

Assistant Professor of Biology

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P: (740) 427-5305

E: smithal@kenyon.edu


Campus Address
Higley Hall 202

Areas of Expertise

Reproductive biology, developmental biology and immunology

Toshi Tsunekage

Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology

P: (740) 427-5973

E: tsunekage1@kenyon.edu


Campus Address
Higley Hall 304

Natalie Wright

Assistant Professor of Biology

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P: (740) 427-5071

E: wright1@kenyon.edu


Campus Address
Higley Hall 214

Areas of Expertise

Morphological evolution, ornithology, evolutionary ecology, biomechanics

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