All Biology Seniors participate in a Senior Program. For BA students this program is one semester long and requires development of a senior paper. BS students complete a year-long program that requires the development of a research proposal in the first semester and independent completion of the actual research in second semester.
Students then present their research findings to the campus community.
Honors students work within a similar framework, but with an accelerated schedule and with the additional requirement of a Senior Honors Thesis. The effect of soil solarization on the survival of Rhizobium leguminosarum. Effects of exogenous melatonin and photoperiod on brown adipose tissue thermogenesis in Peromyscus leucopus . Water quality of Blackwater Creek and Ivy Creek as indicated by macroinvertebrate populations.