Dr. Paul T. Arnold
Professor of Biology

Dr. Paul T. Arnold has been at Young Harris College for 20 years. He is a graduate of Huntington University where he earned an A.A. in Wildlife Management, and a B.S. in Biological Science in 1982. In 1987 he earned his Ph.D. in Botany from Miami University in Oxford, OH. He came to Young Harris College in 1987 and has taught courses in Biology, Botany, Invertebrate Zoology, Ecology, Human Anatomy & Physiology, and Microbiology. Dr. Arnold's primary professional interests include: The physiological ecology of mycorrhizal fungi, the effects of toxins in mutualistic relationships between plants and their fungal symbionts, biopredator control of the hemlock wooly adelgid, pollen analysis in honey, and the flora of the southern Appalachian bioregion.

Brenda K. Hull
Professor of Biology

Brenda K. Hull is in her fourteenth year of teaching at YHC. She earned her B.S. degree in Agriculture, with emphasis in Animal Science, at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, and received her M.S. degree in Biology, with emphasis in Ecology and Animal Behavior, at East Tennessee State University in Johnson City. Ms. Hull teaches courses in Biology, Ecology, Zoology, and Field Studies. Her primary professional interests lie in the field of ecology, ethology and ornithology.

Dr. Jason M. Brown
Professor of Biology

Jason M. Brown is in his seventh year of teaching at Young Harris. He received a B.S. in Genetics and a Ph.D. in Cellular Biology from the University of Georgia in Athens, GA. He has also worked as a research technician at both UGA and the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston. Dr. Brown currently teaches introductory biology courses for both science majors and non-majors as well as chemistry laboratories. His primary area of research interest is to understand the mechanism of assembly of the locomotory organelles known as cilia in the ciliated protozoan, Tetrahymena thermophila.