Majors: Biology
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Wartburg students present at Winchell Undergraduate Research Symposium
Four Wartburg College students presented their research at the Winchell Undergraduate Research Symposium on April 25 at Bethel University. Grace Schuetz, a senior in neuroscience from Bettendorf, was selected to present an oral presentation on her research, “Kahweol Produces Cytotoxic Effects in U-87 MG and NIH/3T3 Cells.” Kahweol is a molecule found in Coffea arabica…
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Toering Peters presents genomic education research at Drosophila conference
Stephanie Toering Peters, a Wartburg College biology professor, presented “Building Bridges in Genomics Education: Regional Nodes as Catalysts for Distributed Faculty Collaboration” at the 2026 Genetics Society of America annual Drosophila Research Conference in Chicago on March 5. The Annual Drosophila Research Conference is the premier meeting for Drosophila researchers with as many as 1,000 presenters annually.…
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Ready for the worst
WARTBURG MAGAZINE | SPRING 2026 DIGITAL ISSUE Ready for the worst Physician and adventurer Natalie Bonthius ’17 is empowering people worldwide with wilderness medicine and survival training March 10, 2026 A bystander applies a tourniquet on a crash victim’s leg, stopping the bleed that doctors later say would have killed him before help arrived. A…
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Wartburg students present research at annual IINspire Conference
Seven Wartburg College students presented their research during the annual IINspire Conference held earlier this month in Cedar Falls. Sameer Sarwar presented his research “Avian green space usage at urban-rural interfaces,” which he conducted with fellow students Bridget Canfield and Claire Brown as well as David McCullough, a biology professor. Jalen Stovall presented on the “Effects of reduction…
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Students present at education conference in Des Moines
Elementary education students Kate Heithoff, Katie Hilton, Addison Phillips and Allie Schweitzberger presented Dr. Bechtel’s “Learning Through Biophilia by Incorporating Aquaponics” at the Iowa Agriculture in the Classroom Learning and Leadership Conference in Des Moines. They taught attendees how agriculture and aquaponics fit together and can be incorporated in the PK-12 classroom. The students filled…
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Owen Grover: From gridiron to med school
WARTBURG MAGAZINE | SUMMER 2025 ISSUE Owen Grover: From gridiron to med school Sept. 2, 2025 Anyone who has paid attention to Wartburg College football over the last three years will recognize the name Owen Grover ’24. During the 2022-23 and 2023-24 seasons, the linebacker racked up a list of accolades that culminated with being…
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Wartburg College faculty receive tenure, promotion, emeritus status
The Wartburg College Board of Regents has approved tenure and promotion for three professors. One professor was approved for promotion and five were awarded emeritus status. Those awarded tenure are: • Cristian Allen, an assistant professor of mathematics. He earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Virginia Commonwealth University and a doctorate from the University of…
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Bechtel named Sound Science Fellow by National Center for Science Education
Wartburg College’s Michael Bechtel was one of seven educators selected to serve in the first cohort of the National Center for Science Education’s Sound Science Fellowship program. During his two-year term, Bechtel will help the NCSE develop new approaches to resolving misconceptions about topics that are seen as controversial to the public and conduct research…
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Wartburg professor presents research at microbiology undergraduate education conference
Wartburg College’s Sean Coleman recently presented at the American Society of Microbiology of Undergraduate Educators Conference in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Coleman’s first presentation focused on his collaborative research, “Implementing a Stimulated Biomedical Conference on COVID-19 Diagnosis at Various Institutions: Impact on Student Learning of Vision and Change Core Concepts and Competencies.” The activity designed for this…
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Young Alumni Award 2024: Dr. Annie Fangman ’11
Dr. Annie Fangman ’11 Iowa City, Iowa After completing her residency rotations at the University of Washington Medical Center in Seattle, Dr. Annie Fangman embarked on a career as a physical therapist specializing in neurologic recovery. Fangman works with patients who have experienced traumatic brain injuries, strokes, and spinal cord injuries, among other neurological conditions.…
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Stephanie Toering Peters
B.S., 1996, Hope College Ph.D., 2003, Stanford University Dr. Richard L. and Sandra K. Wahl Professorship in Biology Established in 2019 with a gift from Dr. Richard L. and Sandra K. Wahl Current Research I have three major areas of research at the current time: genome annotation, investigating the function of the gene l(2)37Cc, a…