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 […]
Ariel Henderson, a senior biology major from Hot Springs, Ark., spent two weeks this past summer volunteering at a medical clinic in Urubama, Peru. "This is something I've wanted to do since my freshman year, so I was happy for any chance to make it happen," Henderson said. Henderson’s trip was funded by the Academic […]
For 10 weeks, Dr. Sean Coleman and his students spent their microbiology lab time learning various techniques used to identify bacteria. The labs were nice and predictable, because in the lab, everything is labeled, and you pretty much know what to expect when your run your tests. But in April, all of that changed, when […]
The Ozarks Biological Society has announced the schedule for presentations by eight Ozarks students. On Monday, April 30, Sabrina Goddard will present her senior thesis Cleavage of galectin-3 prostate specific antigen (PSA) in the male reproductive tract, which is based on research Goddard did during her summer internship under Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, […]
Senior Andrea Muffuletto has won the coveted John C. Johnson Award as the result of her presentation at the Beta Beta Beta (Tri-Beta) Biological Honor Society South Central Regional Conference, held last weekend at the University of Oklahoma Biological field station on Lake Texoma, Oklahoma. This award comes with money to attend the National Tri-Beta […]
Clarksville, Ark. --- Nine Ozarks students were inducted into the Nu Eta chapter of Beta Beta Beta, the National Biological Honor Society, in a ceremony held on Wednesday, February 29 in Raymond Munger Memorial Chapel. Inducated as regular members of the Nu Eta chapter were Jose Andino, a junior biology major from La Ceiba, Honduras; […]