Robert Bode

My family moved to the Pacific Northwest from New York in 1997. In complete disregard of the natural beauty around me, I headed back east for my education. I got my B.S. in biology from Hope College in Holland, Michigan, then traveled to Ithaca, New York to get a Ph.D. at Cornell University. I then took a job as a teaching post-doc at Canisius College in Buffalo, New York. I finished two years of teaching and research and took a one-year sabbatical replacement position at Illinois Wesleyan University in Bloomington. Having thoroughly explored the east and mid-west, I then, in 2014, accepted a position here at Saint Martin's, once again surrounded by natural beauty and biology.