32 science students complete degrees

At the recent Spring 2008 commencement, Delta State awarded 35 degrees to science majors. These included 28 in biology, 5 in chemistry, and 2 in environmental science. Three students received double degrees, in both biology and chemistry.

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Second Annual Environmental Science Symposium

The Second Annual Environmental Science Symposium takes place from 8:30-12:00 Friday, April 4th in Caylor Hall, Room 105. The theme of the symposium this year is “The Heritage of Natural Resource Management in the Delta”. The compete program is available here.

Dr. Somlai to have chemistry paper published

Dr. Rie Somlai, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, is an author of a paper that has been accepted for publication in the journal Royal Society of Chemistry. The paper is entitled, “The Photochemistry of Some Main Chain Liquid Crystalline-4,4'-Stilbene Dicarboxylate Polyesters.&rdquo:

Drs. Blackwell and Riding conduct bird surveys

Drs. Nina L. Baghai-Riding and Eric Blackwell led two bird surveys (Jan 12 and March 8, 2008) at Bear Pen Park, Cleveland, MS and a wood-duck box maintenance activity at Dahomey National Wildlife Refuge (Feb. 16, 2008) with the 4-H youth of Bolivar County. These bird conservation workshops are the focus of a Community Pride grant from 4-H and Chevron/Texaco. 4-H youth have learned how to identify and document birds that they saw during a the survey period.