Jan. 26, 2023 – DENTON – While much of humanity spent the COVID lockdown binging in front of a television, Juliet Spencer was improving herself. In addition to virtually conducting her copious duties as director of TWU’s School of the Sciences and as a biology professor, Spencer was a student for the first time in more than 20 years. But lots of folks took classes. Fun adult classes. Learn that foreign language you always wanted to know. Or work on that backlog of professional continuing education. No. Think higher. Spencer studied for an MBA. A Master of Business Administration. And in December, she earned her degree from TWU. "This was basically my COVID project," Spencer said. This was not, however, some arbitrarily chosen COVID project. "One of my babies, my pet projects, is our biotechnology program," Spencer said. "My undergraduate major was biotechnology, so I’ve always been very interested in applied science. I’ve always been very interested in what we can use science for, what are the applications. What is the good for mankind? That basically is the definition of biotechnology. So we developed the program to be more geared toward going into industry. "We really wanted students to […]