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 […]
As a professor of biology and the University's chief health professions advisor, Dr. Sean Coleman has helped dozens of University of the Ozarks students achieve their goal of attending a professional school within the health care field. Dr. Coleman, who earned his Ph.D. in physiology and biophysics from the University of Iowa, has taught at […]
All it took was one semester in Dr. Frank Knight's biology experience class last fall to help Freddy Prince decide on a career path. Prince, a senior biology major from Jonesboro, Ark., who is graduating from University of the Ozarks on May 17, has been accepted into the nuclear medicine imagining sciences program at the […]
Montana Hall is getting a jump start on her career aspirations. The sophomore biology major from Paragould, Ark., is currently serving an internship with the Arkansas Department of Parks and Tourism. She is working at the visitor’s center at Mount Magazine State Park, where she puts in about 24 hours a week in the paid […]
The University of the Ozarks' Nu Eta chapter of Beta Beta Beta, the National Biological Honor Society, honored its seniors and inducted new members during a ceremony held on campus on April 3. Among the seniors who were recognized were (pictured, from left to right) Sarah Hartlerode, Nitza Vara, Katrina Bradley (back), Alejandro Andino, Emily […]
Andrea Walker, a 2011 University of the Ozarks graduate, recently returned to campus to speak about her experiences as a third-year optometry student at Southern College of Optometry (SCO) in Memphis, Tenn. Walker, originally from Ozark, Ark., studied biology and math at Ozarks. "I knew coming into undergrad that I was interested in the medical […]
Todd Turner, a junior from Hot Springs, Ark., spent a portion of his summer interning with the nutritional laboratory at the Smithsonian's National Zoological Park in Washington, D.C. The biology major learned of the opportunity through Ozarks’ Professor of Biology Dr. Frank Knight, who is renowned on campus for his research involving armadillos. "One late […]
University of the Ozarks senior Emily Toombs and Professor of Biology Dr. Sean Coleman are teaming up this summer to conduct biomolecular research, which is being funded by a grant from NASA that Toombs wrote herself. Emily Toombs, a senior biology major, is working on research this summer with her Ozarks professor, Dr. Sean Coleman. […]