On Fri 26 Sept 2025, a group of MUW alums from a variety of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) backgrounds held a conference for current students to let them know about options for STEM careers that the students might not have considered. The conference consisted of two panel sessions,…
Ethan Wilkins, a senior biology major in the Department of Sciences and Mathematics, will be entering the Heersink School of Medicine at the University of Alabama, Birmingham, in Fall 2026 as a first-year medical student. Ethan, a resident of Vernon, Alabama, got offers of admission to multiple medical schools in…
Dr. Travis Hagey, Associate Professor of Biology, was invited onto the Mississippi Public Broadcasting program Creature Comforts on Thurs 14 Aug 2025 to share his expertise on lizards, geckos, and all things herpetology. Creature Comforts is a call-in show that broadcasts every Thursday at 9 am throughout Mississippi on the…
Three Biology majors from the Dept. of Sciences and Mathematics are starting medical school together this fall in Jackson. Mallory Parker Williams, Maggie Smith, and Laila Wrenn are all part of the incoming 2025 class at the University of Mississippi Medical Center School of Medicine. Mallory and Leila both graduated…
Ethan Wilkins, a biology major in the Department of Sciences and Mathematics, was awarded a Mississippi INBRE Research Scholars summer internship to work in the lab of Dr. Ghanshyam Heda, Professor of Biology at MUW. The program has Ethan do biomedical research in the lab of Dr. Heda for…
Wed 23 April 2025 was the Department of Science and Mathematics 4th annual Student Awards Day. Students in the department were recognized by faculty for their contributions and achievements. Outstanding Seniors in Biology, Laila Wrenn and Kate Blankenship, with Dept. Chair Dr. Bonnie Oppenheimer. The most serious award of…
Four departmental faculty were recently recognized for their outstanding achievements over the past year — Dr. Sarah Poiani, Dr. Davida Crossley, Dr. Ghanshyam Heda, and Dr. Bonnie Oppenheimer. On Saturday 5 April, Dr. Sarah Poiani, Assistant Professor of Mathematics received an award from the MUW Alumni Association as the Outstanding…
On Friday 21 Feb 2025, the Dept. of Sciences and Mathematics hosted the 2025 Mississippi Regional Science Bowl. Science Bowl is a quiz-show type competition for teams of four students from an individual high school. Different teams play against each other two-at-a-time. A quiz moderator reads a STEM-related question (topics…
Department of Sciences and Mathematics biology major Zarin Tasnim Raya attended the 2025 Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB) Annual Meeting in Atlanta, GA, from 3-7 January 2025. While at the conference, Zarin wrote up summaries of some of the research being presented there for two national websites.
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…
