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May 26, 2022 • Daniel DiPrinzio
An Arcadia University alumna and several students have received Ellington Beavers Awards for Intellectual Inquiry to support their research projects. Layla Darian 22DPT, 22MPH was awarded $987 for her project, “Mujeres en Movimiento: El Camino al Bienestar (Women in Motion: The Path to...
Nov 7, 2016 • Jen Retter
This September, Biology major Stephanie Olson '17 presented a poster on the growth and development of flesh-eating beetles at the 25th International Congress of Entomology in Orlando, Fla. Olson, who will use the poster as part of her Capstone presentation, completed the research alongside Dr....
Sep 18, 2015 • Christopher Sarachilli
Lauretta Bushar, Ph.D., professor and chair of the Department of Biology, co-authored “Population Isolation and Genetic Subdivision of Timber Rattlesnakes (Crotalus horridus) in the New Jersey Pine Barrens” in the September issue of Herpetologica. Through DNA and statistical analysis, Dr. Bushar...
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Lehigh University 1979
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Lehigh University 1981
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Research Paper, Copeia 2014:694-706
Co-Authored with C. Aborde, S. Gao, M. Gonzalez, J. Hoffman, I. Kovelman, A. Savitzky, H. K. Reinert
Research Paper, Journal of Herpetology 35:532-537
Co-Authored with M. Maliga and H.K. Reinert
Research Paper, Copeia 1998(2):411-422
Co-Authored with H.K. Reinert and L. Gelbert
Research Paper, Journal of Heredity 87(2):152-155
Co-Authored with Villarreal, X., L. Gelbert, J. Bricker, H. K. Reinert, and L.M. Bushar
Research Paper, Caribbean J. Sci. 38:126-128
Co-Authored with Reinert, H.K., L. M. Bushar, G. L. Rocco, M. Goode, and R. A. Odum
Contribution to book, Loma Linda University Press, Loma Linda, CA
Co-Authored with Reinert, H. K., L. M. Bushar, G. Rocco, and R. A. Odum
Research Paper, Journal of Herpetology. In press
Co-Authored with Bushar, L. M., H. K. Reinert, S. Tucker, L. C. Pace, W. I. Lutterschmidt, and R. Andrew Odum
Research Paper, Herpetologica. In press
Co-Authored with L. M. Bushar, N. Bhatt, M. C. Dunlop*, C. Schocklin*, M. A. Malloy* and H. K. Reinert
Dr. Bushar's research interests are in the ecology and population genetics of threatened and endangered snake species. Most of her work has focused on the Timber Rattlesnake, Crotalus horridus, which is a candidate species in Pennsylvania and is a threatened or endangered species in most of the northeastern United States. With colleagues, she has developed microsatellite genetic markers for use in studies of C. horridus (Villarreal et al., 1996). She has used these to study factors influencing genetic variation within and gene flow among local populations of C. horridus (Bushar et al., 1998) as well as anthropogenic and physiographic influences on the genetic structure of C. horridus populations (Bushar et al., in press). Additionally, Dr. Bushar has a research program on the island of Aruba in the Netherlands Antilles studying the endangered Aruba Island Rattlesnake, Crotalus durissus unicolor, and the invasive Boa constrictor (e.g., Reinert et al., 2008; Bushar et al., in press). Dr. Bushar has been supported by funding from the Pennsylvania Wild Resource Conservation Fund through the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission and a State Wildlife Grant through the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission. Her research has been supported through intramural grants including the Stacy Anne Vitetta Professorship, the Ellington Beavers Faculty Research Award, and other intramural grants. She has also received support for the renovation of research laboratories and the purchase of instrumentation used in both teaching and research through the National Science Foundation.