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Eukaryon                

Eukaryon is an undergraduate research journal at Lake Forest College that publishes the very best of life science scholarship conducted by Lake Forest students. The journal’s goal is to celebrate and highlight the academic accomplishments of students achieved within the research-rich classrooms and student-centered research labs of Lake Forest College faculty. The word “Eukaryon” reflects the diversity of organisms that the faculty of the Biology Department are involved with through their scholarship.  The students and faculty of the Biology Department at Lake Forest College founded this peer-reviewed annual online journal in 2004. The inaugural issue was published in January 2005 and featured seventeen articles selected by Biology faculty. From the 2006 issue onwards, an Editorial Board comprised solely of Lake Forest College biology majors selected articles through a peer-review process. In spring 2005, the biology faculty selected student members of this Board. This Board not only reviews articles, it authors all future editorial policies of the journal, with the goal of making Eukaryon a truly student publication that maintains high scientific journalistic standards.  Diverse categories of articles were published, from research reviews and primary articles, to Nature-styled News and Views and senior theses.