Biology Faculty Aid Students Involvement of biology majors by Dr. Michael V. Plummer in research on the ecology of snakes and turtles was an outstanding activity of the Department of Biological Science. Laura Bell presented a paper, "Evaporative Water Loss in Opheodrys aestivus," at the Colloquim on Biology in the MidSouth at Memphis State University in Febraury and at the Arkansas Academy of Science Meeting at Arkansas State University in April. She received an assistantship at the Univesity of Houston for graduate study. Jack Greenhaw, who a1sa worked with Dr. Plummer. received an assistantship from Memphis State Unh'ersity. Dr. Plummer was invited to present papers at the American Society of Ichtheologists and Herpetologists in Fort Worth, Texas, the Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles in Milwaukee, and the Symposium on Turtle Biology in Pittsburgh. He was also appointed index editor for Herpetologica. During the year, Dr. Plummer did final work on a manuscript for a book on amphibians and reptiles of Arkansas with cooperation from other herpetologists of the state. He published ''Female ReproducDoran took a group of students on a field study to the Big Bend Country of Texas. Dr. Roberson and Dr. Doran attended a Chautauquatype short course conducted by the National Science Foundation at Christian Brothers College in Memphis. Dr. George Woodruff was again invited by the National Science Foundation to corne to Washington, DC, where he served as a member of the panel that reviewed the applications for and selected the recipients of grants for studentoriented science projects. Four 1980 biology majors were accepted to medical school, two to dental school, and one to pharmacy school. Several majors were pursuing doctoral study at various institutions. In November, Dr. Sears was invited to Ohio Valley College to give a series of lectures on the creation and evolution. Dr. Sears, Dr. Plummer, and Mr . Doran attendtion in an Arkansas Population of Rough Green Snakes: Opheodrys aestivus," in the Miscellaneous Publications of the University of Kansas Museum of Natural His- -- tory; "Ventral ~ute Anomalies in a Population of Opheodrys aestivns," in the Journal of Herpetology, and "Communal .Nesting of Opheodrys aestivus in the Laboratory" in Copeia. Dr. Jack Wood Sears, Chairman of the Department, Dr. Bryce Roberson, and Dr. PI ummer attended the annual meeting of the Arkansas Academy of Science. During the spring break, Ronald 1. DR. MICHAEL PLUMMER, Assistant Professor of Biology, lends a hand to Jo Boykin on a Biology assignment. 2. PRE·MED CLUB. Front Row: Wamack, Yates, Brazzel, Smith. Jones, Sexton, Madden, Bell. Second Row: Huffman, Duff, Tucker. Lovering, Eno, McKinzie, Shirley. Third Row: Graham, Gibson, Williams, Pickhardt, Scone, Rucas. Hefley. 92 Arts and Sciences-Biological Science
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