Michael Dodson’s BSB 251 Botany class took a group trip to visit the Birmingham Botanic Gardens on 18 November 2024. Mr. Dodson’s students applied the botanical skills of plant identification and plant anatomy they had learned throughout the semester to new and exotic plants found at the botanical garden, like…
Departmental alum Shannon James is using her Biology expertise to help protect our forests and crops from invasive and pathogenic pests. Shannon James Wiygul graduated from MUW with a B.S. in Biology in 1995. She returned in the Spring and Fall of 1997 and completed courses to earn teaching certification…
On Wed 20 Nov 2024, BS 400, the capstone Senior Seminar course for Biology majors met for the last time this semester. The students presented posters they had made to other students and faculty in the department. Dr. Travis Hagey, Associate Professor of Biology, is the instructor for the course…
Departmental alum Shan Wilkinson uses her biology expertise to help other people start families Shan C. Stookey Wilkinson graduated from MUW in 1995 with a B.A. in Biology. As of Fall 2024, she is Laboratory Manager and Senior Embryologist at Hudson Valley Fertility in Fishkill, NY. Here is how Ms…
Kate Blankenship, a biology senior in the Dept. of Sciences and Mathematics, did a paid summer internship this past June and July in the Dept. of Mechanical Engineering at Mississippi State University. Kate did her internship in the Computational Mechanics and Materials Lab (CMML) of Dr. Matthew W. Priddy at…
Mississippi University for Women’s Department of Sciences and Mathematics is opening the doors to W faculty, staff and students for the science/math seminar series beginning, Wednesday, Sept. 11. Dr. Ghanshyam Heda The course is being instructed by Dr. Ghanshyam Heda, professor of biology at The W. Heda will be the…
This semester, the Dept of Sciences and Mathematics is debuting a new course, BSB 171 Biology I. The course is part of the SEA-PHAGES consortium overseen by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. SEA-PHAGES is an acronym for Science Education Alliance – Phage Hunters Advancing Genomics and Evolutionary Science. In the…
In preparation for teaching the new BSB 171 Biology I course, Dr. Davida Crossley, Associate Professor of Microbiology, took a summer workshop held by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) at their labs in Baltimore, MD. Dr. Robert Sample, Associate Professor of Microbiology, and Dr. Brian Burnes, Associate Professor of…
The 2024 MUW Undergraduate Research Conference was held on Fri 12 April. Students from the Dept. of Sciences and Mathematics were well-represented with presentations. The following undergraduate Biology and Chemistry majors won prizes at the conference:Best Oral Presentation: Maggie Taylor Best Long term work, 2nd place: Ayooluwa Ilesanmi Best Poster…
Dr. Heda first started working with undergraduates in his lab in 2009. In the 15 years since then, he has had more than 20 Biology, Chemistry, Psychology, and Nursing undergraduate majors so projects under his supervision. Dr. Heda’s lab conducts research on the molecular aspects of the genetic disease cystic…
