Biology Undergraduate Research Program (BURP) Spring 2013
Summer undergraduate researchers relaxing at Crow's Neck
Tagged Heliconius erato hybrid in French Guiana
Overnight field trip to Sipsey Wilderness Area
Graduate and Undergraduate Students working in Microbiology Research lab
Adult native Blue cactus Borer Hanging on Host Plant
Annual Biology Undergraduate Research Symposium

Departmental News

(2013-05-23) 2013 Outstanding Research Associate Award - Jeff Echols, Biological Sciences Instructor and Director of Lab Operations, recently received MSU's Office of Regulatory Compliance and Safety Outstanding Research Associate Award.

The award honors Mr. Echols' relentless and outstanding safety efforts to ensure Harned Hall is a safe place for students, faculty, and staff.

(2013-05-22) Biological Sciences - Preparing Future Leaders - Ashley Helton, a 2009 Mississippi State graduate in Biological Sciences, was recently selected as Valedictorian for the Southern College of Optometry's Spring 2013 graduating class.

Southern College of Optometry, located in Memphis, Tennessee, ranks as one of the nation’s leading institutions of optometric education.

(2013-05-03) 2013 Outstanding Graduate Student Mentor Award - Dr. Gary Ervin, Professor of Biological Sciences, recently received the 2013 Outstanding Graduate Student Mentor Award. The award, sponsored by the MSU Alumni Association and Office of the Graduate School, is made to a member of the MSU faculty based on well-documented examples of the highest dedication to graduate students while serving as an outstanding mentor.

A mentor can be a major advisor or a member of a graduate committee, but being an outstanding mentor is much more than simply advising. A mentor provides wisdom, technical knowledge, assistance, support, encouragement, empathy and respect throughout, and most probably beyond, your graduate career. A graduate student reaps exceptional benefits from the mentor’s support, skills, wisdom and coaching. Mentoring also brings to a graduate student an understanding how his/her distinctive skills and ambitions fit into the opportunities offered by a graduate education. The mentor emphasizes the importance of scholarship, and university life and offers guidance in career choices.

(2013-05-03) Dr. Donaldson Receives 2013 National Pork Board Swine Industry Award - Dr. Janet Donaldson, Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences, recently received the 2013 National Pork Board Swine Industry Award for Innovation. The research that garnered this prestigious award was entitled "Novel Use of Lipid-Producing Bacteria to Increase Circulating Triglycerides in Swine."

Identification of Pictured (left to right):

Mr. Brandon Cox, National Pork Board SE Representative; Dr. Donaldson; Dr. Wayne Green, President of the Southern Section of American Society for Animal Science.

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Mississippi State, MS 39762

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Welcome

The Department of Biological Sciences at Mississippi State University is home to 25 instructors and tenure-track faculty and more than 1,000 graduate and undergraduate students. We offer three B.S. degrees (Biological Sciences, Microbiology, and Medical Technology) and three graduate degrees (an M.S. and a Ph.D. in Biological Sciences and an M.S. in General Biology, a distance program for science teachers).

Research in the Department represents the breadth of the Biological Sciences, including work in Cellular and Developmental Biology, Microbiology, and Ecology & Evolutionary Biology. Our faculty have received research funding from all major federal funding agencies, as well as many state and private funding sources, and we have nationally respected faculty in each of the major research disciplines named above.

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