Welcome to the Undergraduate Research Home Page! At this site is information about undergraduate research opportunities with TROY Biology faculty, as well as information about past and current undergraduate projects. If you have any questions please email Dr. Landers, the coordinator of undergraduate research for the Department.

Getting started in research
If you are interested in finding a research project, look at the individual faculty web pages to see their research interests at: http://troy.troy.edu/artsandsciences/biologicalsciences/faculty.html

Contact that faculty member and discuss the possibility of working on a research project.  Your project,  level of involvement, and  commitment are agreed upon between you and the faculty member.,

The Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences has written a HANDBOOK FOR UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH . Please read over this handbook for more information about research projects.

Troy University Credit
Research projects can be taken for credit or just for the experience.  If you are interested in research credit, you will need to sign up for BIO 4491/4492. Students interested in research credit should have junior or senior standing at Troy University.     

Advantages of credits/signing up for credit:
Your research will appear on your transcripts.
You will have a more in-depth involvement in the project

Disadvantages of signing up for credit:
You will have to hand in a report and satisfy syllabus requirements. You will have to pay tuition for the credit.

2008 Journal Articles, Conference Presentations, Abstracts and Technical Reports involving TROY undergraduates (undergraduate students in bold).

Jones, R.and Landers, S.C.  2008. Morphological analysis of the trematode parasite Alloglossidium. Southeastern Biology 55: 230-231.

Key, J. and Woods, M.  2008. The genus Rhynchosia (Fabaceae) in Alabama. Southeastern Biology 55: 354.

Koigi, R.N., Gaston, J., Billington, N., Creech, R.E ., Wotawa, A.M ., and Lyle, S.D. 2008. Hybridization between walleye and sauger. Journal of the Alabama Academy of Science 79: 78-79.

Lyle, S. and Billington, N. 2008. Genetic variation in walleye populations. Journal of the Alabama Academy of Science 79: 78.

Lyle, S.,Billington, N., Koigi, R.N., Gaston, J., Wotawa, A.M ., Creech, R.E ., and Rasuck, C.  2008. Genetic variation in walleye and sauger populations determined by protein electrophoresis. Southeastern Biology 55: 238-239.

Smith, J.L., Gaston, J.L., and Ash, C. 2008. Sudden cardiac death and the pre-participation screening of student athletes at Troy University. Journal of the Alabama Academy of Science 79: 128-129.

Stephens, R.G. and Blankenship, L.A. 2008. Antibiotic sensitivity and resistance survey among bacteria isolated from aerobic digest from a wastewater treatment plant Journal of the Alabama Academy of Science 79: 88-89.

Wotawa, A.M. and Billington, N.  2008. Mitochondrial DNA markers for identifying southern and northern strains of Walleye. Journal of the Alabama Academy of Science 79: 81.

Wotawa, A.M. and Billington, N. 2008. Elucidation of genetic markers for distinguishing between the northern and southern walley strains in Alabama via PCR-RFLP analysis. Southeastern Biology 55: 238.