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  • People The Western Carolinian 11 Thursday, September 25, 1986 Biology Department Wins Award for Excellence by Joan Tucker People Editor Having won the coveted Award for Excellence in academics, I thought it only fitting that the Biology Department should be highlighted, and so I spoke with Dr. Frederick Harrison who is a Spongologist and Ihe head of the Biology Department. WC: Tell us a little about yourself. RH: I was born in Macon, Georgia and moved to a farm when I was young. On our country farm, my father operated a summer camp. There, I raised horses, broke them, trained them and taught riding. I also learned to play football from my father who was a school teacher and football coach. I later went on scholarship to South Carolina University to play football and wound up as a biologist. WC: What caused your change In Interest from horses to sponges? RH: When I was in myfirstyearin graduate school at South Carolina, I decided to work on a research problem. Dr. Piney came to give a lecture, and he told me how his advisor, H.V. Wilson at Chapel Hill, earlier on at the turn of the century had taken sponges and ground them through silk. They were broken up into individual cells and they came back not only reformed into a totally new animal, but if he took a led sponge with a yellow sponge and ground them up, and mixed the cells, the cells separated out - red to red, and yellow to yellow - and this intrigued me. WC: How long have you been head of the Biology Department? RH: I have been Head of the Biology Department for nine years. Before this, I was at Albany Medical College in the Anatomy Department, and before that I worked at the University of Sidney in Australia. WC: What exactly is the Award of Excellence? RH: It is the first one ever offered here at WCU. We won in academics and the Cooperative Education Program won it for support. It recognises a level of scholarship that we are really proud of. Dr. Rick Harrison WC: What are you going to do with the $10,000.00 monetary award? RH: What the department decided to do unanimously is to set up a trust fund for student scholarships. We thought if we tookthe $10,000.00 to buy equipment, thirty years from now it might become obsolete. But by setting up an interest bearing trust fund, the interest will be going right back into the students. We won the award because of the achieverftents of our students and we want to plant it right back into our students. It might be a student who needs tuition or who wants to work on a research project, it might be a way to give a student start up money. WC: What is the most common Job a biology graduate gets when he leaves college? RH: In general, three areas for most of our students; teaching, going on for graduate work, either at the masters level or the doctorate level, or going into some area like medicine, dentistry or some other professional school. We have tried to broaden the curriculum to put in all those different areas of emphasis to give more opportunities, because the job market was very poor - it still is in some areas of biology. What we are really trying to do is broaden the base of the curriculum to give more opportunities by pairing up biology and business, biology and math, biology and environmental health, etc. WC: What isthe acceptance rate of WCU students to professional schools, medicine, dentistry, etc.? RH: Very very good. Over the past four years-and this reflects biology and chemistry primarily because this Is the area people do when they are going on - but It is a seventy percent acceptance rate and this includes last year's figures. Seventeen students applied to professional schools and twelve were accepted. And if s because of the advising with the Prehealth Professional Club with Dr. Wright our preprofessional advisor. What we tried to do for four or five years now is to start advising entering freshmen from day one, and get them into the preprofessional club so tiey know when the deadlines are; how to prepare for the Medical Aptitude Test; get them into the summer programs The "New Kid" on the STA Block Alfred Wiggins Mike Doerner photo by Mike Doerner People Writer In case you didn't know, thesis a new professor in the Speech and Theatre Arts Department. His name is Alfred Wiggins, a wet! travelled Man of Letters. Hewasborn July4th, 1936. He looks more like a graduate student than a professor. Don't let his youthful looks mislead you, however. Alfred Wiggins wit) impress you with the wisdom bom of half a century of scholarship. He spent his undergraduate years at Shaw University, in Raleigh, North Carolina, and graduated with a degree in Theatre Arts. From there, he went on to Indiana University for graduate work in theatre. He transferred to the University of California at San Diego to continue and graduate in the area of Theatre Arts. Since then, he has taken courses in Broadcast Journalism at Columbia University, been an instructor at Oklahoma University, and taught in the Virgin Islands at the College of the Virgin Islands in 1984. When asked why he came to Western, he answered that he wanted a full-time teaching position, and was informed about this position at Western as well as a few others. He mailed in a resume and forgot about it. live months later he was requested to come here for an interview. When he arrived in the mountains he said he was "overwhelmed by the scenic grandeur". Mr. Wiggins hopes to see "a rekindling of excitement in reading and writing among college students". He hopes to write and produce plays and fiction for both the stage and television. He also wants to form a black stage ensemble here at WCU, and get involved in Black Heritage Month. In his spare time he likes to travel, read, and play tennis, but in his working hours he teaches 353 - Film Production; 251 - Broadcast Writing; 250 - Fundamentals of Broadcasting; and 253 - Contemporary Studies in Film and Television. at Chapel Hill and East Carolina for minorities and disadvantaged students. WC: Is there anything that you would like to emphasize? RH: A lot of activity is going on in the department. There are a lot of people writing grant proposals, and there have been many grant receipts. There's a little more than $500,000.00 worth of grants in the past five years. T think the most important point is the spread all over of thirty-two different gra nts, and this reflects a lot of activity in the department. Also, I think most importantly isthe students coming out of here really achieved and this is what a lot of people don't know and what I want to emphasize. Because right now, currently, there are twenty-two biology students in doctoral programs working on their Ph.D. These students attend universities like Harvard, Cornell, Vanderbilt, Chapel Hill, University of Chicago, Guelph inOntariotonamea few. They work in national institutes of health, Forth Dietrich, and Colorado medical center. When you think of tie record of acceptance to medical schools and the summer medical programs, it is really most pleasing how the students have been able to achieve,and I don't meanatany'run of the mill' university. This summer, we had a student in the East Carolina Medical Program who was number one in the class, and atCha pel Hill we had a student who placed second The other institutions are beginning to recognize us, particularly for graduate work. A lot of studnets who have not focused in on a particular problem, in other words, they have not really defined what they want to work on are coming to us to get their masters degree here and going on to top Institutions. For further information about any of the biology programs, the Biology Office is situated in the Natural Sciences Building, Room 132, or call 227- 7244, or write to: Head, Department of Biology, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC 28723. If a great opportunity! DR. Nlenhufs (of the English Dept.), local rhetorician, at work. mr. perry's beauty salon international Adventures in Hair Styling Before Restyling & Perm Model - Laura Davis 97 E. Main Street Sylva, NC 704-586-5556 Walk-ins Welcome During Styling finished Style Introducing for the first time in the area STS Splor Hair Force Systems A Total Line of Hair Products & New Innovation in Hair Dryers Hairstylist working with Mr. Perry - Judy Cohen You Would Read This... ...even if it was your ad. And so would your customers. And your potential customers. This space could easily be yours by calling 227-7267 or writing to Box 66, Cullowhee, NC 28723. EVEN IF IT WAS YOUR AD. W.C.Cats Pizza Open: Mon-Sat 11 to 12 PIZZA & SUBS MADE FROM THE FINEST INGREDIENTS! Free Campus Delivery 293-3524 We Deliver Until 12! Do You Have Religious Questions that You Wish to Discuss With Someone in a Low-Key, Calm, Rational Way and Leaving the Judging to Christ? BOB RIGDON Are You Having Problems With Recurring Sins in Your Life That You Wouid Like To Overcome? Can You Appy Christian Principles In Your Everyday Life? Maybe We Can Help. We Promise You We Will Try! / am willing to take my lunch period (12:00-1:30) on* Thursday* to meet with you and talk about these things. (al me. Boh Rigdon. Professor of Counseling and a Minister, 227-7208, 8-12 am.
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