| Dr. Steele is a full-time faculty member at Converse since 1997. She was the Chair of the Biology Department from 1998-2000. She teaches General Zoology, Parasitology, Embryology, Comparative Anatomy, Human Sexuality, and General Biology. She advises biology majors and freshmen, as well as Pre-Medicine, Pre-Dentistry, Pre-Veterinary and Allied Health Professions
students.
Her research interests include protozoan and helminth parasites of vertebrates. She completed a project involving the life cycle stages of
Leucocytozoon smithi, a malaria-like parasite of turkeys. Dr. Steele was named a Belle Baruch Visiting Scholar for 2002. She studied the parasitic helminths inhabiting the fishes of the North Inlet-Winyah Bay Estuarine Research Reserve in Georgetown, South
Carolina.
Dr. Steele is actively involved in undergraduate research. Her students have won awards for their research presentations
at professional scientific meetings and have received research grants from funding institutions. She and one of her students observed larval stages of two species of dilepidid tapeworms in the body cavities of mummichogs and striped killifish. These tapeworm larvae were reported in their intermediate hosts for the first time. Currently, she and another student are studying the prevalence and intensity of infection of the giant, deer liver fluke,
Fascioloides magna, in South Carolina.
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Edna Steele