Richard F. Drushel, Ph.D., (call him "Rich") has been Instructor and Executive Officer in the Biology Department at CWRU since August 2006. From December 1992 to August 2004, Rich held a variety of research positions (Research Assistant, Research Associate, and Senior Research Associate) in the lab of Dr. Hillel J. Chiel. Rich wrote several iterations of kinematic models of the muscles and other soft-tissue structures in the head of the sea slug Aplysia californica during feeding behaviors, as well as gross anatomy and histology of the slug's organ of feeding, the buccal mass. In the interim between slug research and his current job, Rich was a Full-Time Lecturer (though he became an Adjunct Instructor in 1997).

Rich has spent his entire post-high-school career at CWRU. He holds a B.A. in Biology from Western Reserve College (1984), went to the School of Medicine for 2 years, then switched to Ph.D., receving his doctorate in Developmental Biology from the School of Graduate Studies in January 1993. He worked in the lab of Dr. Arnold I. Caplan studing anatomy, histology, immunohistochemistry, and ultrastructure of muscle basement membranes in developing limbs of chicken embryos.

Currently, Rich teaches BIOL 223 (Vertebrate Biology), BIOL 346 (Human Anatomy), and BIOL 340 (Human Physiology). He taught BIOL 119 and BIOL 121 (Concepts Towards a Molecular View of Biology I and II) during the 1997-8 and 1998-9 academic years, and co-taught (with Hillel Chiel and Dr. Randy D. Beer) the popular Autonomous Robotics course ("LEGO 375", various crosslists in BIOL, EECS, ECMP, CMPS, NEUR, EBME and assorted numbers) for 19 semesters (Spring 1995 to Fall 2004).

Rich is currently the Faculty Advisor for the CWRU Film Society and for Theta Chi Fraternity, of which he is also an alumnus.

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Hot Links for the Sausage-Impaired:

Badly-in-need-of-updating CWRU webpage:	http://www.case.edu/artsci/biol/people/drushel.html
Fun private webpage:	http://junior.apk.net/~drushel/
Abandoned-in-place historical mirror of the LEGO 375 course webpage:	http://drushel.cwru.edu/375/
Rich's parody of the "new" (2003) Case logo:	Case_logo
Rich's office:	Millis 506B (in "the Penthouse")

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Richard.Drushel 13:45, January 24, 2007 (EST)