by hageyt | Jun 17, 2021 | Education, Outreach
This week I had the awesome opportunity to work with the teachers, staff, and principal at Aberdeen High School here in Mississippi as part of their Summer Enrichment Program. To make up for missing out on in-person opportunities Aberdeen high school students...
by hageyt | Nov 14, 2020 | Education
This semester, I collaborated with our comparative vertebrate anatomy faculty Dr. Simmons-Diez, to organize an end of the semester poster session. Students in both her class and my biomechanics course, found published articles related to topics we covered in class,...
by hageyt | Dec 15, 2019 | Education
I am excited to learn that my proposal to update our general biology 101 course here at the W to use all open source material was approved by the University of Mississippi Open Education Resource Z-Degree project, which is supported by the William and Flora Hewlett...
by hageyt | Oct 20, 2019 | Education, Outreach, Research
October has been a busy month! As part of working with the honors college, I have been meeting with a handful of undergrads that need public service hours. We have been working on developing multiple educational booth activities to do at the Boys and Girls club here...
by hageyt | Sep 19, 2019 | Education, Outreach
After a busy first month of fall semester, we got some very exciting news! I was awarded some funds though a MUW APILĀ Teaching Innovation Grant. APIL stands for active, problem-based, inquiry-based learning. I’ll be purchasing a set of replica primate and...
by hageyt | Jun 1, 2019 | Education, Research
In addition to wrapping up may first year as a new faculty, I also celebrated a couple of awards! Both of these awards I was nominated for, either by my department chairĀ or by students. I received a MUW Alumni Association New Faculty Award, which recognizes the hard...