Author: Emilee Walden | Majors: Mathematics, Biology | Semester: Summer 2023 If you know me, you know that I am a homebody. Applying to spend the summer anywhere but Arkansas was far outside of my comfort zone, but that’s exactly why I did it. I applied to nine...
Author: Grant Shelnut | Major: Biology | Semester: January Intersession 2023 I now have the pleasure of saying that I “went up” to university on Central London’s Russell Square in 2023. Well, kind of. For context’s sake, a tour guide at Cambridge informed us American...
Author: Ellie Magera | Major: Biology | Semester: Spring 2023 Hello, my name is Ellie Magera, and I just graduated with honors from the Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences with a B.S. in Biology. I have spent the last three years conducting butterfly mating...
Author: Sakura Roberts | Major: Biology | Semester: Spring 2023 Hello, my name is Sakura Roberts, and for the past three years I have had the honor of working in Dr. Sarah DuRant’s lab. The lab primarily focuses on physiology, maternal effects, and disease, and I...
Author: Abigail Doran | Majors: Biology, Psychology | Semester: Spring 2023 My name is Abigail Doran and I am an Honors Student in the Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences. I am a Biology and Psychology double major. My research mentor is Dr. Anastasia Makhanova who...
Author: Tyler Merreighn | Majors: Public Health, Biology | Semester: Spring 2023 My name is Tyler Merreighn, and I am a senior Honors student in the College of Education and Health Professions and Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences with a double major in public...
Author: Wesley Vaught | Majors: Biochemistry, Biology | Semester: Spring 2023 Arkansas has a higher prevalence of citizens with frequent mental distress than any state in the U.S., likely due to a disproportionate number of stressors such as financial hardship and...
Author: Chloe Connelly | Major: Biology | Semester: Spring 2023 For the past two and a half years, I have been working on my honors thesis; we exposed domestic canaries to Mycoplasma gallisepticum, the avian conjunctivitis pathogen, to determine whether differential...
Author: Aisha Al-Rizzo | Major: Biology | Semester: Spring 2023 To brie, or not to brie… this question was truly answered this past April! Before you wonder why there are three cheese puns before I open up this blog post, allow me to explain myself. I recently just...
Author: Amber Alzufari | Majors: Biology and Psychology | Semester: Spring 2023 My name is Amber Alzufari, and I am a senior majoring in biology and psychology with minors in medical humanities, global studies, and Arabic. I’ve been involved in the ASCAN Lab in the...