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Kent D Dunlap
Professor of Biology
Phone: (860) 297-2232 Office Location: Life Sciences Center 245
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Trinity College faculty member since 1998 View office hours for Fall 2024
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Degrees:
Ph.D., Univ. of Washington, Seattle
B.A., Macalester College

One primary aim of the liberal arts is to explore connections between various disciplines. In his teaching, Professor Dunlap spans several levels of biology in the hope of demonstrating how physiological processes are, in part, products of molecular and ecological processes, but also have particular (emergent) properties at the organismal level. In addition, he tries to show how biology fits into the liberal arts by discussing the possibilities and limitations of science as a way of knowing and by examining ways that scientists have uniquely approached phenomena in the humanities, such as music, art and religion. In his research, Professor Dunlap pursues questions at the cellular, physiological, behavioral and evolutionary levels. While his current research is on fish, he has conducted research on lizards, frogs and rodents in the past.