When non-science majors think about completing general education requirements, the idea of taking a laboratory science course where they’ll be required to memorize tongue-twisting terms and become familiar with the tools commonly found on the lab bench may be daunting.  At the Stamford campus, ecology and evolutionary biology professor Charles Yarish has a way of engaging his non-science students in activities that are both challenging and fun, and that serve to make the study of  marine biology ‘real’.  On a morning cruise in the Norwalk River aboard the RV Oceanic, Yarish’s students got a chance to learn first-hand about various forms of marine life.