All students are eligible to enroll in the Biology Club with a minimal dues payment. Past activities have included trips to the Atlanta Botanical Garden, Tennessee Aquarium, and Cumberland Island. This unique program provides opportunities for undergraduate students to hear talks given by a variety of off-campus speakers, generally focusing on recent advances in biological research. This series also provides a forum for students to speak about their research projects and summer internships, and to share information and announcements with fellow biology students. Each year the School of Mathematical and Natural Sciences provides the students an opportunity to highlight the research they have conducted during the previous year.
Students present their research in a poster format to other students, faculty, and administration.
Outstanding research is rewarded at the dinner which follows this mid-April event. Every two or three weeks, faculty who teach biology and members of the Biology Club host an early Friday-evening gathering of faculty, students, and guests. This very informal gathering serves to allow faculty-student interaction in a casual atmosphere conducive of free exchange of thoughts and ideas. Whether it be over wings at Buffalo's or deli items at Schroeder's, faculty and students are free to relax and discuss topics as wide ranging as evolutionary genetics to the optimal choice of pizza toppings. Everyone seems to look forward to these gatherings, which are designed to promote positive and constructive faculty-student relationships.