Aaron Bunker, assistant professor of biology at Morningside College, and three students worked on a paper that is being published in the March 2015 issue of BIOS, the quarterly journal of the Beta Beta Beta National Biological Honor Society.

Aaron Bunker	Kaitlin Gerber	Nick Haedt	Blake Schany

Aaron Bunker, assistant professor of biology at Morningside College, and three Morningside College students worked on a paper that is being published in the March 2015 issue of BIOS, the quarterly journal of the Beta Beta Beta National Biological Honor Society.

The paper is “Effects of Arm and Body Position When Measuring Blood Pressure in Young Healthy Males and Females.” The students who helped conduct the 2.5-year study are Kaitlin Gerber, Nick Haedt and Blake Schany. They have since graduated.

The study found that body position – standing, sitting or lying down –significantly impacts the blood pressure of females but not males.

Bunker joined the faculty at Morningside College in the fall of 2010. He has a doctorate in biomedical sciences with a minor in college teaching from the University of Missouri-Columbia.