MUW Research Funds for 2019

MUW Research Funds for 2019

I’m excited to let everyone know that we have been awarded funds from the MUW Faculty Research Committee and the Mississippi Space Grant Consortium to support three undergraduate researchers next semester (Arpana Upadhyay, Bailey Howell, and Elizabeth Fain) as...
Student Biomechanics Poster Session

Student Biomechanics Poster Session

In my 485 biomechanics course, I had students find published studies related to the course that interested them and we worked to turn them into posters. In place of a final, students designed and printed their posters outlining the goals, methods, and results of their...
Outreach at New Hope Middle School

Outreach at New Hope Middle School

We attended our first outreach event here in Mississippi yesterday at New Hope Middle school. It went really well! I had my newly built clothes-pin-and-seeds bird game and our departmental administrative assistant’s son helped us out and brought his pet leopard...
Skype-a-Scientist

Skype-a-Scientist

The last two years I’ve volunteered as a scientist to chat with K-12 classes as part of the Skype-a-Scientist program. It has been a really rewarding experience and am really enjoying the classes I’ve had the chance to meet!  This year I’m chatting...
Biomechanics Bibliography

Biomechanics Bibliography

For anyone looking to put together a biomechanics course or just interested in an introduction to comparative or evolutionary biomechanics, check out my peer-reviewed bibliography on Evolutionary Biomechanics now available on the Oxford Bibliography website (DOI:...