by hageyt | Apr 29, 2024 | Outreach
As the semester come to a close, April has a been a busy month for public outreach events. I participated in Mississippi Public Broadcasting’s first Family Fun Day event here an MUW’s campus. With the help of Dr. Whitwam, we had a booth set up with STEM...
by hageyt | Mar 26, 2024 | Outreach
This week, as part of NASA’s Inspires Futures for Tomorrow’s Youth (NIFTY) spring eclipse program funding, we visited the Columbus Boys and Girls Club to do STEM related activities with the students there. On Thursday, with the help of Dr. Crossley, we explored...
by hageyt | Mar 1, 2024 | Education, Research
Working with Dr. Burnes, we brought 11 of his bioinformatics students to the 2024 Mississippi Academy of Sciences conference in Hattiesburg. They all presented posters sharing class projects they had been working on. I also presented a poster on a collaboration...
by hageyt | Feb 8, 2024 | Outreach
February 2024 has had a lot of exciting events. My lab participated in outreach events at Aberdeen high school, New Hope middle school, and Mississippi State University’s Science Night at the Museums event. I visited Aberdeen high school, working with three of...
by hageyt | Jan 8, 2024 | Research
Our new paper is out in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution! Using geometric morphometrics, we evaluated parallel morphological differences in toe pad shape across geckos. We also adapted the use of phylogenetic independent contrasts for shape data to conduct a node...
