by hageyt | Jun 21, 2024 | Outreach
Today we completed our week-long 2024 summer STEM course for 9-14 year olds at Plymouth Bluff! Last year our space-themed STEM course was sponsored by the NASA NIFTY program. This year, our course was supported by a generous donation by Gary and Collene Albright....
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...
by hageyt | Dec 11, 2023 | Research
Last week Dr. Burnes and I had the chance to visit Mississippi Museum of Natural Science and the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson, MS. Our visit was part of a project looking at biogeography of Sceloporus lizards, in connection with Dr. Burnes’...
by hageyt | Nov 15, 2023 | Education
Today students in my Comparative Biomechanics course presented posters summarizing published studies they researched related to biomechanics concepts we covered in class. Our audience were students in our SM100 seminar course. All the students did great presenting...
by hageyt | Nov 6, 2023 | Research
I’m very excited to share that this week I was awarded MUW’s first Excellence in Research Award for my research efforts at the W. I want to thank my chair for nominating me! I’m very proud of all the work I’ve done over the last few...
by hageyt | Sep 6, 2023 | Research
This summer I was lucky enough to plan a field research trip to the island of Mauritius in the Indian ocean. This trip was funded by the British Ecological Society, the MUW department of Science and Mathematics, Mississippi Space Grant Consortium, MUW Nancy Yates...
