Author: Kevin Hollar Major: Biology My name is Kevin Hollar. I am currently a senior who is approaching graduation this coming spring semester- quite a scary realization. I am an honors student in the Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences and will be graduating...
Author: Drew Vander Leest Major: Biology My research was a part of a NASA initiative called the Planetary Protection Act. Essentially it is to ensure that other planets aren’t contaminated from biological matter from Earth during interplanetary missions....
Author: Sydney Darling Majors: Biology and Spanish During the past spring and fall semesters of 2020, I have had the great privilege of studying disease ecology under my honors research advisor, Dr. Kristian Forbes. While exploring my interests throughout my...
Author: Christopher Rassmann Major: Biology From the Fall semesters of 2019 to 2020, I have performed research in the biological sciences department under my advisor, Dr. Timothy Kral. The primary goal of my research is to test the viability of methanogen life on...
Author: Valerie Lomonte Major: Biology For the past two years I was able to research with Dr. Hudson Beyzavi. The general goals of Dr. Beyzavi’s research lab are related to the synthesis of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) and covalent-organic frameworks (COFs), the...
My name is Brooke Martin, and I am a Junior Biology major as well as Human Nutrition minor in the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences. During the Spring and Fall semesters of 2020 I have worked under the supervision of my faculty advisor, Dr. Jamie I....
Author: Brittany Tian Majors: Biology, English During late spring of my sophomore year, I began conducting research in the Paré Lab in the Department of Biological Sciences. The lab focuses on developmental biology and utilizes the fruit fly as a model system. While...
Author: Chloe Kuebler Major: Biology During the fall semester of 2020, I continued my project with Dr. Paré’s developmental biology lab to define the molecular mechanism behind embryo compartmentalization in Tribolium castaneum. My goal was to use RNA interference to...
Author: Abbigail Merrell Majors:Biology and Animal Science As a senior in both Fulbright College and Bumpers College majoring in Biology and Animal Science, I worked on research in the Biology department in the Westerman lab during the fall 2020 semester. The...
A senior premedical student majoring in biology and chemistry, I spent my second semester of research funded by the Honors College research grant in Dr. Mack Ivey’s molecular biology lab doing online modelling of a regulatory protein in Clostridium difficile and the potential effects of introducing mutations.