Science & Health Department News

August 26, 2016 — Greek Week at Asbury University celebrates intercultural and ethnic student groups.

July 12, 2016 — Coming up August 5–10, Asbury University’s Archways program takes new students to the wilderness to develop leadership, teamwork and lifelong friendships.

June 8, 2016 — Asbury University’s Equine Center is preparing for more impact than ever with an exciting lineup of improvements taking place this summer.

April 8, 2016 — In the Speakman family, Math + Science + Asbury = Success.

March 29, 2016 — In a scientific sort of way, Dr. Don Burgess, a professor in Asbury’s Natural Sciences department, helps to heal broken hearts.

March 7, 2016 — Asbury University’s “Kids' College” offers hands-on experience in biology, chemistry and physics to students from kindergarten to eighth grade.

November 20, 2015 — Students presented research and won awards at the annual meeting of the Kentucky Academy of Science.

October 28, 2015 — Four Jessamine Connection students — trained by AU students — competed in The Special Olympics State Equestrian Competition in Lexington, Ky.

September 8, 2015 — Asbury University Equine students were instrumental in the planning and production of the 11th-Annual Plowing Contest, held at Servant Heart Farms.

August 1, 2015 — In the world of higher education, there is often a sharp distinction made between schools with “teaching” faculty and schools with “research” faculty. At Asbury University, Biology Professor Dr. Ben Brammell is making such differences “statistically insignificant.” Brammell’s research involves gauging the impact of aquatic environmental contaminants by measuring changes in fish communities in Kentucky’s waterways. With student participation, Brammell combines high-tech methods, such as real-time PCR to measure levels of mRNA expression in aquatic animals, with old-fashioned legwork in the creeks and streams near Asbury’s Wilmore, Ky. campus.