DEPARTMENTAL NEWS

Congratulations to Chris Holly (Ph.D. Research
Assistant), Matt Roberts (Ph.D. Teaching Assistant) and Crystal Boudreaux
(M.S. Research Assistant) who were named the University's top Graduate
Assistants for the 2007-2008 academic year.
Applications now being accepted for the new
distance learning Masters of Science in General Biology program designed
for secondary school teachers in the biological sciences. Get more details
here.
Congratulations to Professor Dwayne
Wise who was presented the Meritorious Teaching Award by the
Association of Southeastern Biologists on April 18
Professors Lakshmi Pulakat and Nara Gavini
receive NSF funding to explore approaches to use Nitrogen-fixation as a
source of fertilizer (more
here).
Assistant Professor Christopher Brooks is lead
author of the monthly "highlighted article" in The American Naturalist (link
here).
Assistant Professor Jim
Smith and graduate student Shawanda Wilson-Stanford are co-authors on
a new paper in Biochemistry (link
here).
Graduate Student Matt Roberts is lead
author on a new paper in Journal of Freshwater Ecology.
Graduate Student Veronica Scott is lead
author on a newly accepted paper with Associate Professor
Karen Coats
in Veterinary Immunology and Immunopathology (link
here)