Description

The History of people, facilities, curricula, and events involved in the evolution of the Central Michigan University Department of Biology from the late 1800s to the present, and the Biological Station on Beaver Island in northern Lake Michigan whose origin dates to the 1940s. Photographs of faculty and staff, students, facilities, and activities are throughout.

Roger G. Bland, Professor Emeritus in the Central Michigan University Department of Biology, is an entomologist. His research has been on distribution, behavior, and sense organ morphology, focusing on grasshoppers and related insects. He taught a variety of undergraduate and graduate biology classes at CMU for 33 years. Bland is the author of the Biology Department history. He and his wife Kathy live in the Mt. Pleasant area.

James C. Gillingham, Professor Emeritus in the Central Michigan University Department of Biology, is a herpetologist and animal behaviorist. He has conducted research on the behavioral ecology of reptiles and amphibians for more than 40 years, working most notably on New Zealand's tuatara. He is a former director of CMU's Biological Station on Beaver Island and presently resides with his wife Mary in the Mt. Pleasant area.