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Ted A. Wilson, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Biology

Heelan Hall, Room 277
712-279-5498
Ted.Wilson@briarcliff.edu      

 

Current Schedule

 

Collecting insects in a corn field in Honduras (Nov. 2006).


Education:
2003 Doctor of Philosophy, Entomology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA.

Dissertation: Fitness of the western corn rootworm, Diabrotica virgifera virgifera LeConte, exposed to transgenic plants and farmer perceptions of transgenic corn.

 

1998 Master of Science, Entomology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA.

Thesis: Laboratory technique to bioassay for extractable factors from corn affecting larval feeding and development of the European corn borer, Ostrinia nubilalis (Hübner)(Lepidoptera: Pyralidae).

 

1994 Bachelor of Arts, Biology, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA.

Minors: Chemistry and Psychology.

 


Courses Taught at Briar Cliff University:

BIOL 102 Human Biology

BIOL 111 Principles of Biology

BIOL 113 Invertebrate Zoology

BIOL 300 Entomology

BIOL 320 Comparative Vertebrate Zoology

BIOL 34IR Black Hills Environment

BIOL 48IR Desert Ecology

BIOL 58IR Senior Seminar

 

ESCI 211 Earth Science I - Introductory Geology

ESCI 300 Entomology

 

LIBA 100 Global Environmental Issues

 


Activities:

Mission Honduras

Loess Hills Prairie Seminar Lecturer

Science Club

Floor Parent

4th Floor Alverno

 


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