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...
by hageyt | Jan 12, 2025 | Research
The SICB conference (Society for Integrative Comparative Biology) was a busy one this year! Working with Dr. Burnes, we brought five MUW students with us to Atlanta. MUW students Cain Petty, Zarin Raya, and Billy Hufton all presented posters, and Ethan Wilkins and...
by hageyt | Nov 25, 2024 | Education
In addition to all of our guest speakers in our Senior Seminar course for Biology majors (BS 400), last week students presented posters they had made to other students and faculty in the department. As the students’ final project in the course, students found a...
by hageyt | Oct 22, 2024 | Outreach
To celebrate Octoberfest and Halloween last week on campus, students set up a “pie your professor”...
