Blogs at H-SC

Good luck to all of our graduating Biology majors: Nick Bowling        Raj Clark              Aaron Fisher         Osric Forrest Barron Frazier   Jonathan Gammon      Ian Giles            Matt Hamblin C.W. Hammond     Nick Joyce             [...]

Chi Beta Phi, the honor society for the sciences, recently held its annual poster session to showcase the wide variety of undergraduate science research that takes place at Hampden-Sydney. The Biology department was represented well by three projects from Dr. Wolyniak’s genomics class, which spent the semester characterizing a bacteriophage named Arturo by laboratory and [...]

The end of the school year brings with it the Final Convocation Ceremony and awards for students who have shown outstanding achievement at Hampden-Sydney. The Biology Department gives two awards annually. The first, the James R. T. Hewett Biology Award, is given to a biology student who has shown exceptional service to the department and [...]

H-SC Ecology (Biol 203) students and Dr. Katie Burke visited York River State Park to learn about wetland natural history and sampling techniques, and, most of all, to have fun. Our guide, Brad Thomas, took us canoeing and seine netting in this important wetland to the Chesapeake Bay.

On Saturday, April 21, junior biology major Yonathan Ararso gave a poster presentation at the 2012 Spring Conference for the Virginia Collegiate Honors Council Meeting held at Randolph-Macon College. Yonathan presented research conducted in the summer of 2011 under the supervision of Hampden-Sydney College biology professor Dr. Kristian Hargadon. Yonathan’s research focused on comparing the gene [...]

Th recent volume of Herpetological Review featured results of surveillance for two wildlife diseases, ranavirus and the fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, conducted by Dr. Rachel Goodman and HSC student Yonathan Tarekegne Ararso ‘13. This study found the fungus, which has been implicated in global amphibian declines, in low prevalence among frogs from campus ponds and a nearby Wildlife [...]

5 of Hampden-Sydney’s graduating biology seniors recently completed their year-long independent Honors studies. First, 4 of these students presented Department Honors projects. Ian Giles presented his project, which was advised by Dr. Herb Sipe of the department of Chemistry and focused on the chemistry of kava root extracts:
Next, Osric Forrest presented a multi-year study on [...]

This summer, 8 Hampden-Sydney students will be engaging in research projects with department faculty. The projects are financially supported by the College’s Honors Council as well as a variety of external sources, including the Jeffress Memorial Trust, the Virginia Foundation for Independent Colleges, and the National Science Foundation. Work will span the gamut of biology, [...]

Professor Werth’s Biology 343 Marine Biology class took a trip to Gwynn’s Island, Virginia, for a tour of an oyster hatchery. Hampden-Sydney alumnus Rick Godsey ’85 met the students at the Oyster Seed Holdings facility (http://www.oysterseedholdings.com/) and, along with hatchery manager Michael Cosgrove, led the group on a tour of the operation, showing how [...]

On Thursday, March 29 Dr. Timothy Bullock, Associate Professor of Pathology and Human Immune Therapy Center Investigator at the University of Virginia, spoke to Hampden-Sydney Biology students and faculty as a part of the Biology Department Seminar Series. Dr. Bullock’s talk entitled “Invigorating T Cell Immunity to Cancer” focused on current challenges faced by researchers in [...]