Two University of Arkansas startups will participate in the prestigious 2011 Rice University Business Plan Competition April 14-16 in Houston.

BiologicsMD is the UA startup and business-plan competition team that has been taking the state (the nation, the world?) by storm in 2010.

BiologicsMD, which is developing a new treatment for osteoporosis, is smack dab in the middle of a whirlwind adventure. Their latest excursion will take them to Times Square in New York for the second time this month, where team members will ring Nasdaq’s closing bell.

The Moot Corp win came with prize money and a pretty cool perk — the opportunity to ring the Nasdaq closing bell in Times Square, which team members did on Friday.