DEPARTMENT of BIOLOGY

• Matthew Stern, Ph.D. - "Biology Faculty Member Awarded Grant to Explore Stem Cell Growth"
• Matthew Stern, Ph.D. has been awarded one of only four grants from the Fall's EPSCOR competition for "Data-driven optimization of bioengineered vascular scaffolds as an advanced material for small diameter blood vessel replacement."
• Janice Chism, Ph.D. was awarded the Distinguished Professor Award!  She is the first faculty member to receive all four of Winthrop's teaching awards.
• Winthrop Biologist, Matt Stern, Ph.D., part of a grant to design blood vessel replacements!
• Biology Department faculty and students volunteering at Rock Hill's first iMAGINE STEAM Festival.
• Kathryn Kohl, Ph.D. Biology Professor, awarded the Gale N. DiGiorgio award!
• Biology Department faculty & students volunteering at Rock Hill's iMAGINE STEAM Festival September 2019!
• Congratulations to Paula Mitchell, Ph.D. for her display "Bug Bar" at Discovery Place Science! 
• Paula Mitchell, Ph.D. was selected as this year's recipient of the Cochran Award for Excellence for her decades-long contributions and research towards the study of insects by the South Carolina Entomological Society.
  • Bugs, Bugs and More Bugs
• Why a Winthrop University Biologist spent her summer looking for rare sunflowers.
• Sasaki Kiyoshi, Ph.D. Research Group Exploring Opportunities at the Southern 8ths Farm.
• Winthrop University Professor and Student Research Endangered Sunflower.
• Insect Museum in the Winthrop University Biology Department is a Hidden Gem.
• Faculty Members Establish Endowed Fellowship. Click on the link to read the about the endowment established by the Department of Biology Faculty.
  • Winthrop University Magazine

• Former Tennis Player Steven Patrick - Awarded NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship
• Bench 2 Bedside Students - Congratulations BIOL122 students on their Comic Book Reveal
• Wendy Dorman - Winthrop Alumna receives national teaching assistant award
• Elizabeth McAfee, a 2018 Winthrop University graduate, was awarded a Fullerton Medical Scholarship to USC - School of Medicine
• Brent Shuman, a biology major, interns with York Police.  Brent processes information to validate kits used in criminal investigations.
• Congratulations to Tira Beckham, Austin Brewington, Shayla Brown, Rachel Edlein, Essence McClay & Jasmine Halls for bring inducted into Tri-Beta in March 2018.
• Ashley Graham received a $1000 grant from the North American Box Turtle Conservation Committee for her proposal "Effects of climate variability on the somatic growth of eastern box turtle."
• Camerun Washington '17, Virginia Commonwealth University, Master's candidate breaks new ground in Genetic Counseling Program, "Award-winning genetic research at WU" (pdf - 4.51 MB)
• Winthrop University Biology students attended the South Carolina branch of the American Society of Microbiology at Columbia College (October 8, 2022) where they presented 3 talks about their independent research projects on phage biology. Dallas Nivens and Laela Walker were awarded first place in Undergraduate Research. The title of their presentation was “Investigating protein interactions of Mycobacteriophage Cain genes 2, 9, and 55”.
• Jordan Lewis - Awarded the 2017 National Research Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program in the area of Disease Ecology.
• Savannah Moritzky '17 - "Pollution research at WU" (pdf - 784.41 KB)
• Kristin Ramirez '16, Kathryn Stevenson '16, and Lauren Green '16  "3 Winthrop roommates look to future in medicine, research, and therapy"
• Tyrone B. Hayes, University of California, Berkeley
  • Biology cosponsors prominent biologist speaker
• Science Scholars Soar - Eagle STEM program inspires student for greatness
• What the Doctor Ordered - Christopher Bennett wants to examine diversity in healthcare
• Conservation Biology Class Seeks to Save Box Turtles From Urbanization
• Winthrop Alumna, Taylor Conner, wins West Charlotte Teacher of the Year!
• Biology & Fine Arts Faculty Fight COVID-19 via the Creator Space.
• Salt Marsh Plant Community Structure on Horse Island, South Carolina.
• To read the Masters Thesis article, click on the link - Carolina Wildlands Foundation.
• The entire article about Winthrop University Graduate Student - Sidney Grant Research Article.
• How One Tweet of Encouragement Can Impact a Career.
• SU2023 Winthrop University "Finding Your Future" Awards.
  • Finding Your Future Certificate - Mason Linker
  • Finding Your Future Certificate - Janelle Regalia
  • Finding Your Future Participants

Congratulations to Holly Owen's for being selected as Winthrop's choice for the "Finding Your Future" program by USC School of Medicine!  She participated in the four week medical shadowing experience Summer 2018.

Congratulations to Chandani Mitchell for placing 1st Place at the SAEOPP McNair National Research Conference for her project "Locating Mutagen-Sensivity Gene mus109 in the Drosophila Melanogaster Genome Using Deficiency Mapping".

Winner of the Champion Cup for the Best Presentation Overall Boyce Thompson Institute REU at Cornell University.

• Congratulations to Ellie Abraham

Congratulations to Holly Owen's for being selected as Winthrop's choice for the "Finding Your Future" program by USC School of Medicine!  She participated in the four week medical shadowing experience Summer 2018.

First Place - Ashley Graham "Mechanisms of Urbanization-Driven Decline in the Box Turtle" and the People's Choice Award - Garrett Driscoll "Developing CRISPR/Cas98 Knockout for LPA Receptor-4 in Chicken Retinal Ganglion Cells."