This year, the H-SC Biology Department is proud to recognize 5 of its graduating seniors for their departmental honors research work.  J. Drake Bishop ’14 completed a project on tumor immunology and will attend Eastern Virginia Medical School in the fall.

J. Drake Bishop ’14

Brett Heyder ’14 investigated the identity of bacterial strains responsible for epidemics of dysentery in 17th century England.  He will attend Eastern Virginia Medical School in the fall.

Brett Heyder ’14

James Hughes ’14 worked on the genomics of a strain of mycobacteriophage isolated and characterized at Hampden-Sydney as part of a national Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) student research initiative.  He will attend the Mercer University School of Medicine in the fall.

James Hughes ’14

Christian Lehman competed a project involving the cloning of bacterial genes that could be used to develop a long-term treatment for lactose intolerance.  Christian will be applying to Ph.D. programs in molecular biology this fall.

Christian Lehman ’14

Francis Polakiewicz ’14 worked on the development of mathematical models that could predict the spread of disease through a given population.  He is deciding between masters degree programs in biomathematics for this fall.

Francis Polakiewicz ’14