by hageyt | Mar 16, 2019 | Education, Outreach
It’s that time of year again for Skype a Scientist! This spring so far I’ve chatted with 2nd graders in Tennessee and 3rd graders in Virginia and am scheduled for 3 more classes this spring! These quick Skype sessions are such a great time! Last class I...
by hageyt | Mar 16, 2019 | Outreach
I had the great opportunity this semester to be involved with the Mississippi Regional middle school science bowl as a volunteer judge and the regional High School science bowl as a timekeeper. These were both new outreach experiences for me. The students competing at...
by hageyt | Mar 15, 2019 | Outreach, Research
This semester we have added some lizards to the lab! We’ll be using these animals mainly as ambassadors during our school science nights or public events. Although we may take some measurements from them along the way. We have two introduced Mediterranean house...
by hageyt | Nov 7, 2018 | Outreach
We attended our first outreach event here in Mississippi yesterday at New Hope Middle school. It went really well! I had my newly built clothes-pin-and-seeds bird game and our departmental administrative assistant’s son helped us out and brought his pet leopard...
by hageyt | Oct 25, 2018 | Outreach
The last two years I’ve volunteered as a scientist to chat with K-12 classes as part of the Skype-a-Scientist program. It has been a really rewarding experience and am really enjoying the classes I’ve had the chance to meet! This year I’m chatting...
by hageyt | Oct 25, 2018 | Education, Outreach, Research
For anyone looking to put together a biomechanics course or just interested in an introduction to comparative or evolutionary biomechanics, check out my peer-reviewed bibliography on Evolutionary Biomechanics now available on the Oxford Bibliography website (DOI:...
