Our students are strongly encouraged to collaborate with faculty to do research.  Both on-campus and off-campus opportunities are available for students who wish to enrich their undergraduate experiences by doing research and by presenting their work at national and regional conferences.  Some recent accomplishments of our students are highlighted here.

 

At the North Carolina Academy of Science Meeting held at Elon University in Elon, NC, March 25-26, 2011, Robert Smith-Uhl presented a poster "Shell Morphology and DNA Sequencing of Disperse Populations of Corbicula fluminea in North Carolina".

At the State of North Carolina Undergraduate Research & Creativity Symposium (SNCURCS) held at Meredith College on November 20, 2010, Ai-Vy Riniker presented a poster 'Tissue Culture, Plant Regeneration, and DNA Extraction of Tylosema fassoglense'.  Aatiqah Khalid, Kat Hosford, Wendy Zuluaga, and Patsy McQuaid presented a poster 'HIV protease inhibition abilities of Tylosema fassoglensis'.

 

Celebrating Student Achievement Day – Meredith College 2011

23 different presentations were presented by Biology Majors

 

Nine Biology majors gave oral presentations at the Celebrating Student Achievement Day.  They are as follows:

Caroline Clark and Chadner Sidbury – Tissue Culture and Plant Regeneration of Tylosema fassoglense and Tylosema esculentum

Alison Flanagan, Dominica Dixon, Wendy Zuluaga and Megan Fitchett – Extraction, Purification, and Isolation of Potential Protease Inhibitor from Root and Leaf of Tylosema fassoglensis

Kayley Hake – Wetland Sediment Microbial Community Composition Shifts in Response to Global Change

Jessica Mills – The Morphological Evolution of the Highly Specialized Aquatic Frogs Xenopus laevis

Katherine Hosford – The Effect of Nicotine Use on Decision Making Behavior

Jessie Breazeale and Marcelo Ardon – Microbial Enzyme Activity in Response to Drought and Saltwater Intrusion in Wetland Soils

 

Seven Biology Majors presented Posters at the Meredith College 2011 Celebrating Student Achievement Day.   They are as follows:

Katelyn Miller – Cloning of katA (catalase) in Staphlococcus epidermidis

Amanda Rosemann, Linda Bridgers and Kira Buchholtz – Fecal Coliform Monitoring of Meredith Pond

Roberta Smith-Uhl – Extraction of DNA from Corbicula fluminea

Carly Stoneman – Conversion of Secondary Amines to Imines Using Common Organic Reagents

Katherine Whitford – Cloning of the Restriction Enzyme Escherichia coli Restriction Endonuclease I

 

Seven Biology majors in the Scanning Electron Microscopy course taught by Dr. Grimes presented a special poster session in the Atrium of the SMB at the Meredith College 2011 Celebrating Student Achievement Day.