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”...
by hageyt | Sep 22, 2024 | Research
I am very excited to announce that my NSF CAREER proposal has been approved for funding! See the MUW press release here and our local newspaper, the Commercial Dispatch’s article here. According to NSF’s website: “The Faculty Early Career Development...
by hageyt | Sep 22, 2024 | Outreach
This week we participated in the Columbus Air Force Base STEM Expo, running a MUW biology booth for over 2000 visiting middle and high school students! It was a busy morning and afternoon! Dr. Moore and Dr. Onyeagucha ran a booth with MUW swag. Mr. Dodson and I ran a...
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...
