A U.S. Army veteran himself, Johnathon Melamed ’25 prioritized supporting his fellow student veterans, all while managing his own small business, supporting his family, and revitalizing his community.
With computer-aided design and 3D printing skills increasingly in demand across a variety of industries, Southwestern University students will soon have another avenue to sharpen their technical knowledge.
Samuel Hoffman ’27 and Ethan Wilcox ’26 were each awarded $40,000 scholarships from The Sumners Foundation for their studies at Southwestern University.
Southwestern’s new Certificate in Legal Studies is designed to prepare students to engage with questions of the law in today’s society by exploring the applications, contexts, and consequences of law.
Pre-nursing graduates from Southwestern will now have the opportunity to earn their Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Baylor’s Louise Herrington School of Nursing in as little as 12 months.
After nearly a decade of bonding over patty melts and honey bbq chicken strip sandwiches, the Southwestern University football team’s offensive line recently became the star of a national Whataburger marketing campaign.
A U.S. Army veteran himself, Johnathon Melamed ’25 prioritized supporting his fellow student veterans, all while managing his own small business, supporting his family, and revitalizing his community.
With computer-aided design and 3D printing skills increasingly in demand across a variety of industries, Southwestern University students will soon have another avenue to sharpen their technical knowledge.
Samuel Hoffman ’27 and Ethan Wilcox ’26 were each awarded $40,000 scholarships from The Sumners Foundation for their studies at Southwestern University.
Southwestern’s new Certificate in Legal Studies is designed to prepare students to engage with questions of the law in today’s society by exploring the applications, contexts, and consequences of law.
Pre-nursing graduates from Southwestern will now have the opportunity to earn their Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Baylor’s Louise Herrington School of Nursing in as little as 12 months.
After nearly a decade of bonding over patty melts and honey bbq chicken strip sandwiches, the Southwestern University football team’s offensive line recently became the star of a national Whataburger marketing campaign.
A U.S. Army veteran himself, Johnathon Melamed ’25 prioritized supporting his fellow student veterans, all while managing his own small business, supporting his family, and revitalizing his community.
With computer-aided design and 3D printing skills increasingly in demand across a variety of industries, Southwestern University students will soon have another avenue to sharpen their technical knowledge.
Samuel Hoffman ’27 and Ethan Wilcox ’26 were each awarded $40,000 scholarships from The Sumners Foundation for their studies at Southwestern University.
Southwestern’s new Certificate in Legal Studies is designed to prepare students to engage with questions of the law in today’s society by exploring the applications, contexts, and consequences of law.
Pre-nursing graduates from Southwestern will now have the opportunity to earn their Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Baylor’s Louise Herrington School of Nursing in as little as 12 months.
After nearly a decade of bonding over patty melts and honey bbq chicken strip sandwiches, the Southwestern University football team’s offensive line recently became the star of a national Whataburger marketing campaign.
A U.S. Army veteran himself, Johnathon Melamed ’25 prioritized supporting his fellow student veterans, all while managing his own small business, supporting his family, and revitalizing his community.
With computer-aided design and 3D printing skills increasingly in demand across a variety of industries, Southwestern University students will soon have another avenue to sharpen their technical knowledge.
Samuel Hoffman ’27 and Ethan Wilcox ’26 were each awarded $40,000 scholarships from The Sumners Foundation for their studies at Southwestern University.
Southwestern’s new Certificate in Legal Studies is designed to prepare students to engage with questions of the law in today’s society by exploring the applications, contexts, and consequences of law.
Pre-nursing graduates from Southwestern will now have the opportunity to earn their Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Baylor’s Louise Herrington School of Nursing in as little as 12 months.
After nearly a decade of bonding over patty melts and honey bbq chicken strip sandwiches, the Southwestern University football team’s offensive line recently became the star of a national Whataburger marketing campaign.
A U.S. Army veteran himself, Johnathon Melamed ’25 prioritized supporting his fellow student veterans, all while managing his own small business, supporting his family, and revitalizing his community.
Samuel Hoffman ’27 and Ethan Wilcox ’26 were each awarded $40,000 scholarships from The Sumners Foundation for their studies at Southwestern University.
After nearly a decade of bonding over patty melts and honey bbq chicken strip sandwiches, the Southwestern University football team’s offensive line recently became the star of a national Whataburger marketing campaign.
Erika (Sehne) Munch, M.D. ’04 has helped hundreds of patients experience the joys of parenthood through her role as a reproductive endocrinologist at Texas Fertility Center.
Southwestern’s unique approach to a liberal arts education, paired with passionate faculty and small class sizes, has put countless students on a path to success in law.
A new era for Pirates men’s basketball is underway as Matt Streich takes the helm, bringing over a decade of coaching experience at the NCAA Division III level to Southwestern.
Garey Chair and Professor of Mathematics Alison Marr uses her own experiences as a female mathematician to inspire the next generation of learners while also playing a pivotal role in enhancing the Southwestern community.
After celebrating 20 years with the American Heart Association and moving into a new national role, political science major Eric Batch ’97 looks back at his time at Southwestern and how it inspired him to change the world.
The weekend of February 28 – March 2 brought scientists from all over Texas to McLennan Community College and Baylor University in Waco, for the 145th Texas Academy of Sciences meeting. Ten students represented the Biology Department, includingGage Mallo’26,Johun Reyes’26,Annika Tracy’25,Murphy Jacobie’27,Madeleine Thomas’26,Kylie Allemeier’26,Katelin Pilarski’26,Sarah Berver’26,Alanna Guerrero’25 andJordan Emerson’27. Based on her collaboration with Assistant Professor of BiologyKim McArthur, Annika gave a talk, titled “Location-independent axon pathfinding in the hindbrain of larval zebrafish,” that earned the first place undergraduate talk award for the neuroscience section. Madeleine presented a poster with her research mentor, Assistant Professor of BiologySunny Scobell, titled “A morphological analysis of the dopaminergic pathway in the brain of a male pregnant pipefish.” Dr. Scobell also mentored Jennifer Smalz, a student from her previous institution (UD: The University of Dallas), who gave a talk titled “Investigating male pregnancy in Gulf Pipefish using scanning electron microscopy to describe the anatomy of the brood pouch over the reproductive cycle.” Ms. Smalz’ talk earned the first place undergraduate award in the systematics and evolutionary biology section. Within that section, Dr. Scobell also gave two presentations, one co-authored with UD student Farah Atarah, titled “Brood pouch anatomy throughout the course of male pregnancy in Gulf Pipefish,” and another focusing on her endocrinology, titled an “Investigation of the role of prolactin during reproduction in a fish with male pregnancy.” Murphie presented a microbiology focused poster, titled “An affinity analysis of Aliivibrio fischeri and zooxanthellae” with the mentorship of Director of First Year Biology LaboratoriesStacie Brown. Working with Chair and Garey Professor of BiologyRomi Burks, Gage presented a poster, titled “You better Belize they’re different: Phylogenetic analysis and species identification of native apple snails in Belize,” that garnered a first place best poster award in the systematics and evolutionary biology section. His poster co-author Johun secured first place in the Undergraduate Research Award Competition, complete with a $2,000 prize to continue the work, with his proposal, “Beneath Belizean waters: Discovering diversity of native apple snails in northern and southern Belize.” Also from the Burks lab, Kylie, Sarah, and Katelin shared their recent troubleshooting efforts in the lab in a poster titled “Extraordinary extraction efforts: Experiments to enhance DNA extraction for tissues of apple snails of conservation interests” that also used collections from Belize that occurred as part of the 2024 study abroad experience. Dr. Burks also gave an oral presentation in the science education section about the recent undergraduate research experience that she developed in BIO50-222, Methods in Ecology and Evolution. Her talk, titled “Methodological microplastics: Development of an undergraduate CURE to quantify abundance of microplastic fibers in a local stream,” came out of conversations with microplastics expert Andre Felton from the University of Texas at San Antonio.
—March 2025
Director of First Year Biology Laboratories Stacie Brown, in collaboration with Dr. Richard Meyer of University of Texas, has secured a contract with American Society for Microbiology (ASM) Press to co-write a lab manual for sophomore/junior level introductory microbiology students. The lab manual will include guided-inquiry and inquiry-based modules that conform to ASM curriculum recommendations. The expected publication date is 2017.
—April 2016
Stacie Brown, director of first year biology laboratories, has been selected to participate in the Prevalence of Antibiotic-Resistant microbes in the Environment (PARE) project, a program through Yale University that provides undergraduates the opportunity to do research and contribute data to a national database. This is in alignment with the Biology Department’s efforts to transform the laboratory exercises into research, which has been partially supported by the HHMI grant.
—August 2015
Stacie Brown, director of first year biology laboratories, is a co-author for a paper published in Microbiology titled “Indole inhibition of N-acylated homoserine lactone-mediated quorum signaling is widespread in Gram-negative bacteria.”
