Ariel Finch of Pickens County, Ala., a student from the Department of Sciences and Mathematics at Mississippi University for Women, placed third and received $150 cash and a certificate at the 78th annual Mississippi Academy of Sciences conference recently held in Hattiesburg.
The MAS is a regional scientific conference that meets every spring. Faculty, undergraduates, graduate students and postdoctoral fellows from throughout the state present their latest data.
Finch worked at The W in the laboratory of Dr. Ghanshyam Heda, assistant professor of biology.
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