Three faculty and four students from the Department of Biology at Southern Arkansas University, Magnolia, attended the 90th annual meeting of the Arkansas Science Fair held in Batesville at Lyon College.

Dr. Thomas Smith, associate professor of biology, served as a judge for the undergraduate and graduate papers and additionally acted as a section chair in aquatic biology.

Dr. Henry W. Robison, professor of biology, currently serves the AAS as historian and presented two papers at the meeting. Those papers were “Distribution and Status of the Colorless Shiner, Notropis perpallidus in Arkansas and Oklahoma” and “New Lamprey Distributions in Arkansas.”

Robison also co-authored other papers, “New Distributional Records of the Goldspotted Topminnow in Arkansas” with Dr. Chris McAllister of San Angelo University, “Benthic Macroinvertebrates of the Strawberry River” with Dr. George L. Harp of Arkansas State University, and “Fishes of L’ eau Frais Creek in Arkansas” with Dr. Renn Tumlison of Henderson State University.

Janet Rader, instructor of biology, also attended the annual meeting. Students who attended include Carla Thompson, a senior biological science major from Texarkana; Matthew Jimerson, a freshman biological science major from Carthage; Justin Sneed, a sophomore biological science major from Emerson; and Guy Njewel, a senior biological science and chemistry double major from Magnolia.