Neil Cornell, adjunct professor of biology, said he admires nature and the outdoors. Cornell’s love for nature started when his father showed him a lizard in a jar. “It was one of my first memories,” Cornell said. “It was the most amazing thing that I had encountered in my early life.”

Bacteria is everywhere — on handrails, backpacks, vending machines and in water. This is what Pamela Connerly, assistant professor of biology, taught children at a camp this past summer. Summer Enrichment at Community Montessori School, a day camp for children in New Albany, devoted one week to ecology and Connerly taught children about bacteria and bacteriophages. Connerly and two of her research students —Timothy Kremer and Whitney Malloy, biology seniors — taught at the camp for two days about the bacteria surrounding them.