Recent lab outreach

Recent lab 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...
SICB 2025

SICB 2025

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...
Senior Seminar Fall 2024 poster session

Senior Seminar Fall 2024 poster session

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...
NSF CAREER award

NSF CAREER award

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...
Columbus Air Force Base STEM Expo

Columbus Air Force Base STEM Expo

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...
Summer STEM course

Summer STEM course

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....
April Public Engagement

April Public Engagement

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...
Boys and Girls Club visit

Boys and Girls Club visit

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...
MAS 2024

MAS 2024

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...