April 8, 2021 : By Jacob Couch - Office of Communications & Public Engagement Dr. Sheeler works in the lab with a student. Through the support of Liberty University’s Center for Research and Scholarship, students from the Biology & Chemistry Department have been conducting research on zebrafish that could discern the level of damage that various environmental chemicals have on the unborn. “The overall goal is to look at these environmental chemicals to see how they can affect development of the heart and nervous system, and what we are finding is that they can, in fact, cause abnormal development,” said associate professor Dr. Cameron Sheeler, who has been leading the research at Liberty for the past three years.