by hageyt | Nov 3, 2025 | Research
In October, I brought two students, Maddie Guerin and Kane Petty, to visit Dr. Stu Nielsen’s gecko lab at LSU Shreveport. We got to check out his live animal breeding facility, and measure a handful of live geckos. and help preserve specimens! ...
by hageyt | Nov 3, 2025 | Education
This year the MUW science and math department held a halloween costume contest! There were lots of great costumes. I dressed up as a tenured professor. Bio major Maddie Guerin dressed up as another faculty in the department and won second...
by hageyt | Oct 21, 2025 | Outreach
This week I was invited to give the annual Hazard Lecture at Heritage Academy. The Hazard Lecture Series was established in 1992 by George Hazard Jr. and his sisters, Florence and Eulalie, to honor their father, George Hazard. I talked about my research with geckos,...
by hageyt | Aug 16, 2025 | Outreach
To celebrate World Lizard Day this week, I was invited to be a guest on the Mississippi Public Broadcasting radio show “Creature Comforts”! Check out the recording of the show!...
by hageyt | Jul 31, 2025 | Outreach
Earlier this month, we held our 3rd annual summer STEM camp for 9-14 year old local students at Plymouth Bluff. We again had support from donations for the course. This year, the course was spearheaded by fellow MUW faculty Michael Dodson, with an emphasis on...
by hageyt | Jul 31, 2025 | Research
I was very excited to attend and present at this year’s Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists in St. Paul, Minnesota. I was invited to give a presentation as part of the “Science in 3D” symposium. I talked about my trials and...
by hageyt | Jul 30, 2025 | Research
This summer I visited the Paris Natural History Museum to continue broadening my lizard morphology dataset. Thank you very much to the curators and staff for their assistance! I was also lucky enough to check out the public exhibit!...
by hageyt | Jul 30, 2025 | Research
This summer I had the amazing experience of conducting fieldwork in Morocco. We had a ton of support from our local collaborators Tahar Slimani and Abderrahim S’khifa and collaborators in Portugal (James Harris and all his students and Sónia Ferreira and her...
by hageyt | May 26, 2025 | Research
Over the last semester, I have been working with senior high school student Danica Belingon from Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science. We have been focused on blending computer science and research! Danica built custom Python code to run a piece of lab...
by hageyt | Feb 16, 2025 | Outreach
The spring semester has been off to a busy start! Research students Maddie Guerin and Kate Blankenship volunteered and shared their research experiences at a booth at 2025 research fair organized by the MUW Office of Undergraduate Research. Our Science and Math...
