Graduate Student Spotlight

Leigha Henson, biology graduate student from Griffin, Georgia, received a 2023 LI-COR Prize at the Botanical Society of America's Botany Conference in Boise, Idaho, for her poster

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)'...

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...

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...

Amanda Wilkinson

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...

Dalton Sizemore

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...

Laura Ellis in the lab; Gary Pandolfi in the field with wetsuit in a river

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...

Richard Sobe and John Jones

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...

Lauren Wood and Tucker Munday

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...

Elyse Russing & Sam Kovach

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...

Michael Thomas and Alicia Ramsaran

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 ...