Randall J. Mitchell

Professor of Biology

University of Akron

330-972-5122. 

Room 177, Auburn Science & Engineering Center. 

Department of Biology

University of Akron

Akron, OH 44325-3908

ATTENTION Potential REU students!

Click here for specific information about potential research projects in my lab.

(Part of the University of Akron's 2009-2011 "Ecology at the Rural-Urban interface" REU program)

• Interests
• Pollination biology
  • Co-organizer of a Conference on the Ecology and Evolution of Plant-Pollinator Interactions, held in 2008 at the ESA meeting in Milwaukee Wisconsin
  • Bees & Pollination
  • Sexual selection & mating behavior in plants
  • Pollen limitation (via NCEAS (National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis) working group)
  • Biology of: Ipomopsis, Penstemon, Lesquerella, Lupinus, Mimulus

• Path analysis

• Evolutionary Biology in K-16 education

• Biology Education

• Integrated Bioscience PhD program at The University of Akron. Here is an example of how students interested in working with me might fit into that program- if you are interested in doing PhD work with me, please contact me!

 

• Courses Taught
• Ecology - 3100:217 (Offered each semester by either Dr. Mitchell or another professor)
• Flora and Taxonomy - 3100:342 (Offered Fall of Even years by Dr. Mitchell or Dr. Duff).
• Evolutionary Ecology - 3100:601 (Graduate course offered Fall Semesters of odd years; team taught with Dr. Weeks and Dr. Moore)
• Field Ecology - 3100:418 (Undergraduate). (Offered Fall of Odd years)
• Graduate Ecology (3100:617). Team taught with Dr. Lavrentyev Spring 2011

 

Special topics or occasional courses

• Insect Natural History and Diversity (Biology 495/595); summer course for 2011, meets at UA Field Station)
• Readings in Evolution and Ecology- 3100:695. Graduate reading group.  Team taught with Dr. Moore. Summer semesters.
  • 2011: Arnqvist and Rowe - Sexual Conflict
  • 2010: Shipley - Correlation and Causation in Ecology
  • 2009: Readings from the literature in ecological genetics
  • 2008: Chase and Leibold - "Ecological Niches"
  • 2007: read 2nd half of Gould's "The Structure of Evolutionary Theory"
• Natural History and Diversity of Plants & Insects (Biology 495/595; summer course not currently scheduled, meets at UA Field Station)
• Field Ecology - 3100:618 (Graduate)  (not currently scheduled. Team-taught with Dr. Niewiarowski and/or Dr. Weeks and/or others)
• Entomology - 3100:451/551 (I would like to teach this, but it is not currently scheduled - if you would like this taught, please contact me)

• Biology of Inbreeding Seminar (Team-taught with Dr. Weeks - not currently scheduled)

• Graduate Seminar on Invasive Species. Fall 2002, not currently scheduled

• Scientific Writing - 3100:695. Fall 2003; not currently scheduled

• Climate Change and Biodiversity - 3100:695-027. Graduate reading group Fall 2006, not currently scheduled.
• Conservation Biology - 3100:422/622. Now taught by Dr. Smith

• Other Academic Information
  • Publications
  • Background on Mitchell
  • Information for Prospective Graduate Students
  • Mitchell's Past and Present Students
  • UA Field Station at the Bath Nature Preserve   
  • Scholarship opportunities for Graduate and Undergraduate Students

Jobs in Field Biology (and other areas of Biology) -- A how-to page we maintain here at the University of Akron. Emphasizes local opportunities for employment and experience.

Other

        Information about Dr. L.Walter Macior

Misc. Links for my own use

Links to search the literature:

http://www.jayhosler.com/clanapis.html

 

• Orienteering - my home club

Last Updated : 01/11/11

                                      Copyright RJ Mitchell