CONWAY, Ark. (November 28, 2012) - Five ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø students recently received Student Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) grants from the Arkansas Department of Higher Education.
Student recipients include:
- Maiya  Block '14 (biology professor Dr. Maureen McClung, advisor)
- Macrina Butler '14 (biology professor Dr. Jenn Dearolf, advisor)
- Dalton Hoose '14 (biology professor Ann Willyard, advisor)Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â
- Meet Modi '14 (biology professor Dr. Andrea Duina, advisor)
- Jessalyn Tackett '15 (biology professor Dr. Andrea Duina, advisor)
ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø students were awarded $13,750 of the $150,000 (9.2 percent) available, according to ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø biology professor Dr. George Harper.
"Even more impressive to me is that (by my calculations) ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø biology and biochemistry and molecular biology students were awarded 21.6 percent of the funds that went to biology proposals," Harper added.
Founded in 1876, ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø College is a national leader in engaged liberal arts and sciences education. For the fifth consecutive year, ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø was named one of the country's "Up and Coming" liberal arts colleges by U.S. News and World Report. ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø is featured in the 2012 edition of the Princeton Review as one of the country's best 377 colleges, the latest edition of Colleges That Change Lives: 40 Schools That Will Change the Way You Think about Colleges, Forbes magazine's annual list of America's Top 650 Colleges, and the 2013 edition of the Fiske Guide to Colleges. ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø has been affiliated with the United Methodist Church since 1884. For more information, visit .