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Environmental Science at Inver Hills
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Transfer Information
Student Clubs
Biology Club
Connect with your fellow students and expand your knowledge regarding the different branches and career opportunities in the vast field of biology.
Contact:
Lisa Tracy, MS
Biology Faculty
Biology Club Faculty Advisor
651-450-3780
Women in STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Agriculture and Math)
Ready to take STEM one step further? Explore all the career paths biology majors can pursue, including cutting-edge jobs in ag science.
Contact:
Kristin Digiulio, MPP
Biology Faculty
Women in STEAM Co-Advisor
651-450-3272
Professional Organizations
American Academy of Microbiology (ASM)
American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS)
American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB)
American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB)
American Society of Naturalists (ASN)
American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB)
Animal Behavior Society (ABS)
Ecological Society of America (ESA)
Entomological Society of America (ESA)
National Academy of Sciences (NAS)
Society for the Study of Evolution (SSE)
The Wildlife Society (TWS)
News
Inver Hills News: New Environmental Science A.S. Degree
Inver Hills News: CHS Aspire, Accelerate, Advance! Scholarships
Inver Hills News: Environmental Science A.S. Transfer Agreement with BSU Environmental Studies B.S.
Inver Hills News: New Climate Change Certificate
Resources
Biology Resource Room
Heritage Hall Room 206
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday: 8 a.m. – 9 p.m.
Wednesday: 8 a.m. – 8 p.m.
Friday: 8 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Closed weekends
As a biology student at Inver Hills, you’ll find that the Biology Resource Room is a great space for completing your biology projects and assignments with opportunities to investigate models, skeletons, bones, and microscope slides. You can work on your own, or in small groups, or with the help of a peer tutor or faculty member.
The Biology Resource Room provides a comfortable, well-equipped atmosphere to study and learn. You are welcome to use the room as often as you wish.
The Biology Resource Room is not set up to give you specific answers to questions on a worksheet or assignment. However, making the most of the assets and support the room offers will go a long way in helping you understand biological concepts. Because the Biology Resource Room is reserved for studying and learning, not socializing, you should always be respectful of your fellow students working in the room.
Note: biology faculty members deliver workshops on various topics throughout the year. The workshops focus on strategies and tools for success in your biology courses.
Signing in
When using the Biology Resource Room, you should always sign in at the computer conveniently located on a table as you enter the room. Signing in helps biology faculty maximize the room’s effectiveness.
Seeking help
Peer tutors are available in the Biology Resource Room during hours posted outside the room. Help from peer tutors is provided on a first-come, first-served basis. Biology faculty may also schedule hours in the room and will tutor students in their specialties. Peer tutors wear nametags that include their job title. Faculty members in the room can also be identified by their nametags.
If you need materials not found in the Biology Resource Room, please check with the lab manager, who is located in the Biology Laboratory Preparation Office (Heritage Hall 222a).
More about peer tutors
The Peer Tutoring Center, located on the second floor of the Library building, provides additional peer tutors in the Biology Resource Room. Recommended by faculty, peer tutors are students who have completed one or more biology courses with a grade of A or B.
A schedule of available peer tutors and their assigned hours is posted outside the Biology Resource Room. Peer tutors may be able to help with lab materials or lecture content, depending on the courses they are competent to tutor.
You should have specific questions or needs when working with a peer tutor, who serves the role of helping you understand concepts and develop study skills; peer tutors do not re-teach courses or provide answers to assignment questions.
Proper use of materials
Materials in the Biology Resource Room are for use by all Inver Hills students. Materials should be handled carefully and respectfully so that future students will have the same resources available in the best condition possible.
A wide variety of resources are available in the Biology Resource Room, including anatomical models, textbooks, lab manuals, microscopes, and microscope slides.
Environmental Science at Inver Hills Adds Up
What you’ll accomplish as a student in our Environmental Science program:
- Understand how our environment works in real-world field and lab experiences
- Explore the dynamic interrelationships between humans and the ecosphere
- Learn how to protect our planet and its inhabitants
- Identify and learn how to resolve pressing environmental issues
- Discover the living world working in small teams guided by recognized life scientists
- Earn an A.S. degree that paves the way to your bachelor’s degree
- Build bridges to cutting-edge research projects at a four-year school
- Work directly with accomplished and student-focused life science faculty
- Benefit from small class sizes and collaborating with likeminded classmates
- Save money and continue your academic and professional careers with less student debt
According to U.S. News & World Report, national student loan debt topped $1.7 trillion in the second quarter of 2021, or roughly $740 billion more than U.S. total credit card debt.
In Minnesota, 900,000 student loan borrowers owe an average $31,250 in federal and private student debt. That debt translates into an average monthly payment topping $250.
Tuition and fees for one year at Inver Hills costs a little less than $5,500. Compare that to $15,000 to $20,000 at a for-profit college, or $40,000 to $50,000+ at a private college or university. You can complete your first two years at Inver Hills getting a topflight, hands-on education from knowledgeable, caring and experienced faculty and then transfer to a four-year school as a junior all while saving thousands of dollars.
