Steering Committee > Dr. Robert Findlay
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Dr. Robert Findlay
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Dr. Robert H. Findlay is the Bishop Professor of Biology at The University of Alabama. Prior to joining UA in 2003, he was tenured faculty in the Department of Microbiology at Miami University. He received his B.S. in Biology (ecology and evolution specialty) from the University of Connecticut at Storrs and his Masters and Ph.D. in microbial ecology from Florida State University. He has authored over 70 scientific publications, been awarded over $7 million in extramural research funding, and currently serves on the Ecosystems proposal review panel for the National Science Foundation. As Graduate Program Director for the Department of Biological Sciences he has worked to increase diversity and inclusion within the Department’s graduate program via its participation in the Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation Program and as PI (with Dr. Sobecky as Co-PI) Department of Education GAANN award. He is currently funded by National Science Foundation to study the role of light as a stimulator of ecosystem-level detrital processing by microbial heterotrophs.
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