Home Faculty and Staff Requirements Graduate School Medical and Vet Schools Senior Research Student Activities Student Accomplishments Alumni Biology Links Wildflower Pilgrimage	Student Accomplishments The Harry H. Johnston Award 2000 - Susan Marie Starnes & William Brooks Hall 1999 - Shane Hill            Graduate School Admissions Ten Biology students were accepted to graduate/professional programs in the fall of 2000. Laura Best was accepted to Eastern Carolina University School of Medicine. Heather Burrell was accepted to the University of Chapel Hill  M. E. D. program. Mike Creel was accepted to the Eastern Carolina University School of Medicine. Natalie France was accepted to the University of Maryland School of Nursing. Cynthia Grimsley was accepted to Eastern Carolina University School of Medicine, and to The University of Virginia, Ph.D. program in Pharmacology, where she will be attending. Billy Hall was accepted at Wake Forest School of Medicine, and Chapel Hill School of Medicine, where he will be attending. Mary Mauney will attend N. C. School of Veterinary Medicine  (post-bac program). Kristy Perry will attend Campbell University School of Pharmacy, Pharm.D. program. Adam Smith will attend W. Virginia School of Osteopathy (post-bac program). Angie Valdez was accepted to the University of New Mexico summer enrichment program for pre-meds.   NCUR Presentations UNCA students and faculty attended the Fourteenth National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR) April 8-10, 1999 at the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY.  Five UNCA Biology students gave presentations at the conference:  Sarah Cook, "Sounds Produced During Nesting by Leatherback Sea Turtles, (Dermochelys coriacea)" Billy Hall, "Isolation and Characterization of DNA Polymerase I Temperature Sensitive Mutants in the Yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae)" Laura Hurley, "Foraging Success of the Groove-Billed Ani (Crotophaga sulcrostris) in the Absence of Varying Densities of Prey Beaters" Carrie MacKichan, "Effects of Salinity Changes on Glutamine Synthetase in the Euryhaline Mummichog (Fundulus heteroclitus)" Timothy Southern, "Phorid Parasities of North Carolina Fireflies" Susan Starnes, "Removal Survey Estimates of Density and Biomass for a Streamside Salamander Community in the Southern Appalachian Mountains" Brian Byrd, "The synthesis, Cytotoxicity and Mode of Action of 2-(4-Methoxybenzoyl)-3,4-Di-(4-Methoxyphenyl) Pyrrole in Human Tmolty4 Leukemia Cells"   Other Accomplishments Heather Burelle was accepted to the Chapel Hill M.E.D. program during the summer of 1998. Cindy Byron recently completed her Masters of Education at Duke University. Laura Hayes recently coauthored a paper with Dr. Petranka entitled "Chemically mediated avoidance of a predatory odonate (Anax junius) by American toad (Bufo americanus) and wood frog (Rana sylvatica) tadpoles" in Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology, a leading international journal in behavioral ecology. Caroline Kennedy is a coauthor of two papers from her undergraduate research at UNCA.  In addition to a paper with Susan Starnes, she is coauthor of a second paper ("Pond tadpoles with generalized morphology: is it time to reconsider their functional roles in aquatic communities?" by J. W. Petranka and C. A. Kennedy) that will appear in Oecologia.  Caroline has submitted a third paper for publication that is currently under review.