Honors in Biology

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Students with a 3.2 GPR in all courses and a 3.4 GPR in all courses in Biology may, with the approval of departmental faculty, undertake an Honors Research Program during the junior and senior years.

Oral and written presentations of the results of the project will be required. Students who successfully complete the Departmental Honors Research Program will graduate with honors in Biology.

Recent Honors Projects

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Here are some honor projects. For more student projects, please visit our student research website

Spring 2010

Shanon Baldwin. Analysis of Ginsenosides in Commercial Ginseng Products

Emily Davis. Genetic analysis of several subspecies of honeysuckle (Lonicera sp.)

Michael Harris. Enyzmatic Analysis of the Hepatic Cecum from the Florida Lancelet, Branchiostoma floridae.

Sarah Twitty. Molecular Detection of Parasitic Helminthes in South Carolina Soils.

Spring 2009

Billy Rinaldi. Electroreception in teleosts: structure of the mormyrid organs in Gnathonemus.

Caitlin Rinz. Screening adults in South Carolina for a genetic mutation that causes Medium Chain Acyl-CoA Dehydrogenase Deficiency

Spring 2008

Nicholas Blake. An ecological study of the relative density and relative dominance of the trees and understory plants contributing to the pollen rains in the pond sedimentary basins in and around Clinton SC.

Carly Eargle. An analysis of the pollen and spores contributing to the pond sediments in and around Clinton SC: light micrscopy

Chris Eckart. Enoree River Fish Biodiversity.

Heather Hawkins. An analysis of the pollen and spores contributing to the pond sediments in and around Clinton SC: electron microscopy

Allison Serdah. The use of a modified air abrasion technique to analyze the structures used in the cladistic analysis of two Oligocene oreodonts

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