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 | Mar 1, 2024 | Education, Research
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...
by hageyt | Jan 8, 2024 | Research
Our new paper is out in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution! Using geometric morphometrics, we evaluated parallel morphological differences in toe pad shape across geckos. We also adapted the use of phylogenetic independent contrasts for shape data to conduct a node...
by hageyt | Dec 11, 2023 | Research
Last week Dr. Burnes and I had the chance to visit Mississippi Museum of Natural Science and the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson, MS. Our visit was part of a project looking at biogeography of Sceloporus lizards, in connection with Dr. Burnes’...
by hageyt | Nov 6, 2023 | Research
I’m very excited to share that this week I was awarded MUW’s first Excellence in Research Award for my research efforts at the W. I want to thank my chair for nominating me! I’m very proud of all the work I’ve done over the last few...
by hageyt | Sep 6, 2023 | Research
This summer I was lucky enough to plan a field research trip to the island of Mauritius in the Indian ocean. This trip was funded by the British Ecological Society, the MUW department of Science and Mathematics, Mississippi Space Grant Consortium, MUW Nancy Yates...
