Jerry Hess joined the Division of Natural Sciences as a Biology faculty and has taught a wide range of lab-oriented Biology courses over the years. Graduate school research pursuits led to a sabbatical with the National Institute of Aging in Baltimore in 1980. Growing out of that experience, work with opioid receptors led to a research collaboration with the Zagon laboratory at Penn State College of Medicine that began in the summer of 1985 and continued for more than 20 years through several sabbaticals.

This collaboration provided the opportunity to learn Transmission Electron Microscopy and later Scanning Electron Microscopy, the latter being the focus of research interests in since 2000. In addition to teaching and research, two separate terms as Chair of the Department of Natural Sciences and more recently as Chair of the Biological Sciences,

Director of the ‘Project Inquiry’ Grant funded by the Whitaker Foundation and Chair of the Pre-Health Professions Committee, and service on numerous college wide committees have added variety and perspective to his Messiah College experience.

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