My interest in the world around me began as a child, when I grew up reading National Geographic. It seems that wherever I found myself, I was picking up some rock or insect, or watching the world around me. I began my higher education at Harding University where I earned a Bachelor of Science. I then moved to Stephen F. Austin State University for a Masters of Science-Aquatic Biology, and I am currently a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in the Interdisciplinary Toxicology Program.

My education and training have equipped me with insight, methods, and tools that allow me to observe the creation to a degree I never thought possible. My research interests center around the effects of environmental factors, such as diet, on animals' responses to exogenous chemicals. I am currently investigating the effects of various diets on lab animal responses to toxins in experimental models.

Many of my past professors planted the seed in me to aspire to teach. Now that I am in the classroom, I hope that through teaching Anatomy and Physiology and team-teaching other specialty courses, I might inspire students to pick up the torch and continue the noble pursuit into the depths of God's handiwork.

• Society of Toxicology
• UAMS: Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology
• Selected Publications

e-mail: scooper@harding.edu
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