A new hands-on science class at University of the Ozarks will have students hunting for undiscovered viruses to benefit the scientific community. The freshman-level, two-semester biology class is part of a national pedagogical program called SEA-Phages, which stands for Science Education Alliance-Phage Hunters Advancing Genomics and Evolutionary Science. The program is an initiative of the […]
University of the Ozarks junior Julio Molina-Pineda’s interest in scientific research just got ratcheted up a notch. The biology and chemistry major from Tegucigalpa, Honduras, took home first place in oral presentation in biology at the 2017 Arkansas IDeA Networks of Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE) conference, held Oct. 27-28 at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. […]
University of the Ozarks Assistant Professor of Biology Dr. Warren Sconiers was just a child when he discovered he had a unique interest in nature’s smallest creatures. “I have always been interested in ecology and entomology. As a child I would play with plants and insects out in the yard and I would even get […]
Breanna Hiatt has taken full advantage of the liberal arts curriculum at University of the Ozarks to find her true calling. The senior from Russellville, Ark., entered college as a pre-medicine major and changed to education before deciding that her love of outdoors and nature would be a great fit for environmental studies. Now she […]
University of the Ozarks junior Amanda Paz spent her summer scaling the jungle canopies of a rain forest, scuba diving at one of the most ecological-rich reefs in the world and working with some of the most diverse animals on the planet. And, it was all done in the name of science. Paz, a chemistry […]
Sparked by best job rankings and bright job growth projections, applications into dental schools are at an all-time high and competition for the few spots has never been tougher. That’s why University of the Ozarks senior Bristol Chilton remembers the exact time and day when he learned that he been accepted into his first choice---the […]
Aaron England believes he will always remember the month of June 2015 as one of the most significant experiences of his life. England, a senior pre-medicine and biology major from Elkins, Ark., recently spent four weeks serving an international medical internship at the Pasteur Institute in Da Lat, a city of about 200,000 in the […]
Before coming to University of the Ozarks, Sheridan Barajas knew very little about the academic research process. She knew even less about armadillos. Senior biology major Sheridan Barajas operated on several armadillos as part of a research project she is working on with Professor Frank Knight. Now the senior biology major from Alvin, Texas, is […]
The University of the Ozarks' Nu Eta Chapter of Beta Beta Beta, the National Biological Honor Society, inducted six full and seven associate members into its organization during a special ceremony held on April 9. Among the full member inductees were, Riley Skaggs, Sheridan Barajas, Bethany Watts, Morgan Markham, Miguel Zambrano and Ashley Clayton. Those […]
University of the Ozarks sophomore Bethany Watts is more than happy to share her love of science, especially with young people. U of O student Bethany Watts shows the seventh-graders how to swab the inside of their cheek to procure cells that they can examine under a microscope. Watts was one of seven students from […]