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Bill Ruf

Research Affiliate

Phone:
(812) 855-5822
Email:
rufwm@indiana.edu
Website:
https://biology.indiana.edu/about/faculty/ruf-bill.html
Department:
Biology
Campus:
IU Bloomington
Woodburn Hall 356

Biography

Bill Ruf has received a PhD in Biology from the University of Texas at Austin and has worked in the Biology Department at IUB for over forty years.  For the past twenty-five years he has been the director of the Tropical Biology Program in Overseas Study.  He is currently a Senior Lecturer in Biology and through Overseas Study offers biology undergraduates the opportunity to dive and study the coral reefs of Grand Cayman and South Africa.

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