A UCA biology study recently was the subject of the cover story in the Sept. 2007 edition of the journal Neurotoxicology.
The study, conducted by UCA biology professor Barbara Clancy and undergraduate students James Hyde and Brandon Kersh, developed an accessible, online resource (www.translatingtime.net) that can be used to equate dates in the neurodevelopmental literature across laboratory species to humans, predict neurodevelopmental events for which data are lacking in humans, and help to develop clinically relevant experimental models.
The results of the study were published online in May 2007, and Hyde and Kersh have since graduated from UCA.
Kersh, who had been accepted into the graduate program at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, passed away in May, and his family has established a scholarship in his name. Donations can be made to: Brandon Kersh Scholarship Fund, UCA Foundation, Buffalo Hall, 201 Donaghey Ave., Conway, AR 72035-0001.