Abilene Reporter-News, March 30, 2007 ABILENE - Howard Payne University senior Phillip Scott tied for first place in the undergraduate poster competition at the 110th Annual Meeting of the Texas Academy of Science, held at Baylor University. The title of his poster, ''Photosynthetic Effects of Different Light Intensities on Mutant and Wild-type Arabadopsis thaliana,'' was based on his research project done under the supervision of Dr. Nathan Reyna, assistant professor of biology at HPU. Scott has been accepted to medical school at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston for the fall.