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Berea College biology majors won awards for research and presentations
at the Annual Meeting of the Kentucky Academy of Sciences held recently
at Murray State University. The students and their awards are:
Mary McCauley, a senior from Waco, awarded First Place – Poster
Presentation in the Life Sciences (Ecology and Environmental Sciences).
Ni Ji, a sophomore from Nanjing, China, awarded First Place – Oral
Presentation in the Physiology and Biochemistry section;
Jeremy Rotty, a junior from Knoxville, Tenn., awarded Second Place – Oral
Presentation in the Cellular and Molecular Biology section;
Jonathan Fleming, a junior from Ashland, awarded Second Place – Oral
Presentation in the Ecology and Environmental Science section; (with
Emilie Throop, Bojana Jovanovic, Aishe Sarshad and Fadi Zaki as co-invenstigators/coauthors);
Rui Gao, a senior from Sichuan, China, award Second Place – Poster
Presentation in the Life Sciences (Cellular and Mollecular Biology);
Bojana Jovanovic, a senior from Ulcinj, Serbia and Monte Negro, awarded
Third Place – Oral Presentation in the Zoology section;
Fourteen other Berea students also presented at the meeting. Biology
Department faculty members who attended were Assistant Professor Sarah
Blank; Professor Ron Rosen and Associate Professor Dawn Anderson.
Support for the students’ research and conference participation
came from Berea College Undergraduate Research and Creative Project
grants; National Institutes of Health/NCRR Kentucky Biomedical Research
Infrastructure (KBRIN) funds and from the KBRIN Summer Undergraduate
Research Program fund.
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