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Biology graduate student Leigha Henson earns prize at Botanical Society of America Conference
Aug 30, 2023
BOONE, N.C. — Leigha Henson, biology graduate student from Griffin, Georgia, received a 2023 LI-COR Prize at the Botanical Society of America (BSA)'...
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Leigha Henson
Apr 12, 2022
Leigha Henson is currently a graduate student in the Department of Biology, working with Dr. Howard Neufeld on the effects of climate change on Southe...
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Erik Rangel-Silva
Aug 30, 2021
How did you become interested in biology?Learning about the nervous system in my psychology class really sparked the intrigue for biological processes...
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Amanda Wilkinson
Dec 18, 2019
How did you become interested in biology?Growing up, I had a large interest in science – understanding how the world worked through fundamental, uns...
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Dalton Sizemore
Nov 13, 2019
How did you become interested in biology?Biology has always been a special subject for me. I graduated from high school thinking I wanted a BA in Poli...
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Laura Ellis & Gary Pandolfi
May 2, 2016
Laura EllisHow did you become interested in biology?Thinking back as long as I can remember I have always been fascinated by how the world works, from...
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Richard Sobe & John Jones
Jan 7, 2016
Richard SobeHow did you become interested in biology?I have always had an interest in biology. I recall during my late teenage years admiring the fasc...
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Lauren Wood & Tucker Munday
Sep 20, 2015
For our next installation in the featured graduate Student series in our Featured Graduate Student Series, we have Lauren Wood and Tucker Munday. Laur...
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Elyse Russing & Sam Kovach
Jan 29, 2015
Elyse RussingHow did you become interested in biology?I have actually been interested in both biology and chemistry since I was very young. I use to a...
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Michael Thomas & Alicia Ramsaran
Jul 3, 2014
Michael ThomasHow did you become interested in biology?I guess it is fair to say that I have always been interested in biology, at least as long as I ...