Undergraduate research at PLNU began in the mid 1970s through the efforts of Dr. Kenneth Hyde. Dr. Hyde directed PLNU undergraduates in two different areas of research: 1) the effects of insecticides on the vertebrate nervous system; and 2) field biology studies involving bird populations on San Clemente Island and in various mainland marshes in San Diego County. Those students who participated most actively in Dr. Hyde’s research program were: Keith Crutcher ’74, PhD in neuroanatomy from Ohio State University; Rick Falkenberg ’76, M.A. in biology from Fresno State University; William McCoy ’76, M.D. from U.C.S.D.; Keith Kortman ’77, M.D. from U.C.S.D.; Susan Meachman ’78, PhD in anatomy from Loma Linda University; Jeff Baker ’78, M.D. from Oral Roberts University; William Jones ’78, M.D. from University of Texas at Houston; James Mellert ’78, D.D.S. from U.S.C.; Jolene Jensen Windle ’79, PhD in molecular biology from Johns Hopkins University; Reno Brave ’79, M.D. from University of San Francisco; Julie Roberts ’80, M.D. from the University of Kansas; Guy Garman ’81, D.O.M. from the College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific; Verna Groves ’82, Middle School Science teacher; Robert Wiese ’82, PhD in zoology from Colorado State University; Brian Foster ’83, PhD in molecular biology from Vanderbilt University; and Robert Patton ’83, M.A. in zoology from Oklahoma State University. The full time summer undergraduate research program in biology was initiated in the summer of 1979.
Please visit our photo gallery below to view the pictures of past summer researchers.
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