The greenhouse behind the science building is home to a number of interesting and beautiful plants!

Dr. Anna Saghatelyan gave a tour for Drs. Wyatt and Fabrizio last Thursday.  She uses the plants in the greenhouse as teaching materials for a variety of botany classes.

Mr. Steve Davis, McMurry Lab Manager, and Mr. Ben Scanlon, a student, assist in keeping the plantings healthy and producing.  Both of them have obviously green thumbs and have transformed a number of ailing plants into healthy and vigorous specimens.

The greenhouse is a lovely respite from the winter blues!

The School of Natural and Computational Sciences congratulates Crystal Garcia for being accepted as one of 28 participants in the UT Southwestern Scholars Program in Organic Chemistry (SPOC).  This program begins Tuesday, June 1, 2010 and ends Thursday, August 5, 2010.

The SPOC includes an exciting research component in which students will be randomly assigned to one of two organic chemistry research projects.  The experimental course content will include supplemental exercises, and a computer game or written exercises.  All the selected students benefit from this program as both groups will receive a strong foundation in organic chemistry. and will participate in a clinical preceptorship.

Crystal is looking forward to the summer, “I hope to get some new insights into the medical profession as well as learning more organic chemistry!”

We wish her well and are hoping to get an email once in a while to let us know how she is getting on!