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…
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…
