April 28, 2016: Alexander K. Tice was awarded the Office of Research and Economic Development 2016 Graduate Student Research Award for the College of Arts and Sciences. Sponsored by the Office of the Vice President for Research and Economic Development. Additionally, he was named the 2016 Research Assistant of the Year from the Department of Biological Sciences.

April 08 2016: Congratulations to Austin Walthall! Austin won third place presenting his Biology Undergraduate Research Symposium poster. This research lead to a publication (Walthall AC, Tice AK, Brown MW. 2016. A new species of Flamella (Amoebozoa, Variosea, Gracilipodida) isolated from a freshwater pool in southern Mississippi, USA. Acta Protozoologica. 55(2): X-XX.). This research was supported by our NSF grant.