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. […]
Dr. Sean Coleman, professor of biology at University of the Ozarks, was selected once again to participate in the College Board's annual Advanced Placement (AP) Program Reading. Biology Professor Dr. Sean Coleman recently took part in the Advanced Placement Program Reading for biology in Kansas City. It’s the seventh year he has participated in the […]
In just two short years, Amy (Smedley) Patton, 2010 Ozarks graduate, has gone from being waitlisted for medical school to being a few short weeks away from her master of science degree in interdisciplinary biomedical sciences, a full-time chemist in a chemical terrorism lab, published in the "Journal of Forensic Sciences," and a presenter at […]
Alicia Chua, 2010 Ozarks graduate, was recently awarded a graduate research assistant position at the prestigious MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas.
Last week, U of O Professor of Biology Dr. Sean Coleman's Critical Inquiry class participated in a geocaching competition on campus. Critical Inquiry (CI) is a freshman level course designed to help students transition from high school to college life. Each CI professor develops unique and creative ways of challenging their CI students. For Coleman’s […]
Students from the University?s Division of Sciences and Mathematics will give presentations over a range of topics on three evenings in early December. The presentations will begin on Wednesday, Dec. 5, when Katrina Bradley, a junior chemistry major from Bella Vista, Ark., will give a talk titled "Studies of emulsions that can be used to deliver […]