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BUSINESS ADDRESS :
Department of Biological Scienceoffice/voicemail: (504) 865-2548
Loyola Universitylab: (504) 865-2086
6363 St. Charles Avenuedepartment: (504) 865-2288
New Orleans, Louisiana 70118-6195FAX: (504) 865-2288
email: wee@loyno.edu

CURRENT POSITIONS

Professor of Biology, Loyola University, New Orleans, Louisiana
Research Collaborator, United States Department of Agriculture - Agricultural Research Service - Southern Regional Research Center, New Orleans, Louisiana.
Adjunct Faculty, Department of Biological Sciences, University of New Orleans - Lakefront Campus, New Orleans, Louisiana

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EDUCATION

Postdoctoral Fellow. Michigan State University. 1984 - 86.

Ph.D. Iowa State University. 1976 - 81.

Botany (Aquatic Plant Biology) Major
Dissertation: "Laboratory and field studies on the Synuraceae (Chrysophyceae)"

M.S. Iowa State University. 1974 - 76.

Botany (Aquatic Plant Biology) Major.
Thesis: "Some silica-scaled Chrysophytes from Iowa"

B. S. Central Michigan University. 1970 - 73.

Biology Major, Earth Science Minor

Michigan State University. 1969 - 1970. Forestry Major.

UNSALARIED POSITIONS

Visitor in the School of Botany, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, June 3-July 21, 1996

Visiting Scholar, Department of Botany, University of Texas-Austin, Sept. 1 - Nov. 20, 1995

Adjunct Faculty, Department of Biological Sciences, DePaul University, Chicago, IL, Jan. 1987- July, 1988

A new algal species has been named after Dr. Wee, Mallomonas weei (Synurophyceae).
Click here for a pdf file of the paper describing this alga.

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES AND/OR JOURNALS RECEIVED

  • Phycological Society of America

  • European Phycological Society/British Phycological Society

  • International Phycological Society

  • Estuarine Research Federation

  • International Society for Evolutionary Protistology

  • International Society for the Study of Harmful Algae

  • Society of Systematic Biologists

  • Union of Concerned Scientists

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

NOTE: The numbers next to the courses listed below represent the institution where the various courses were taught. In some cases similar courses with different names from different universities have been combined under a commonly used course name.

1 Loyola University, New Orleans 2 Loyola University of Chicago, 3 Michigan State University - Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, 4 Michigan State University - Kellogg Biological Station, 5 Lansing Community College, 6 Iowa State University, 7 University of Montana Biological Station, 8 Central Michigan University, 9 Iowa State University-Iowa Lakeside Laboratory.

Course Lecturer and/or Laboratory Coordinator

biology of the protists (1), molecular, cellular, and developmental biology (1); phycology (1); botanical diversity (1); freshwater algae (3, 9); aquatic and wet-land plants (3,4); systematic botany (3); plant anatomy (3); dendrology (6); general botany (1, 6); economic plants (3); cells & heredity (1); biology of organisms (1) .

Course Lecturer for Non-science Majors Courses

evolution (1); local flora (6); plant natural science (1), general botany (6); cultural biology (1); evolution, genetics and development (2); life and inquiry (2) a course on cell structure and function, and human biology

Laboratory Instructor

general biology (8), general botany (6), ecology (6), phycology (6), dendrology (6), plant taxonomy (E), methods of teaching science (6)

Biological Station Teaching Assistant

phycology (7), plant ecology (7)

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This page was last updated by Beth Wee on July 29, 2005