Howell Honors Presentation

Howell Honors Presentation

As part of her senior honors project, undergraduate Bailey Howell presented the beginnings of her honors project tonight investigating how crested anoles in Puerto Rico are adapting to urban habitats! This is a project she has been working for a while already, working...
October updates

October updates

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...
Evolution 2019 and AMNH visit

Evolution 2019 and AMNH visit

I arrived home this week from Providence, RI after attending this year’s Evolution conference. It was a really great time! After taking last year off to move to Mississippi, it was really nostalgic seeing all of my old Idaho friends, with each one having moved...
New lab photography equipment

New lab photography equipment

Finally got a chance to try out the new Olympus lab camera! I’m definitely not a photographer and am uncomfortable even pretending to be one, so I’m really proud of how these turned out! The macro lens made a huge difference. Here you can see how rough...
MUW Online Research Profiles

MUW Online Research Profiles

Check our the MUW online profiles featuring our research! MUW’s office of undergraduate research puts together profiles on students and faculty doing research. Not only was I featured in a “Spotlight on Faculty Researchers” profile, but three of my...
Lizard cage update

Lizard cage update

The two Hemidactylus turcicus in the lab got a refreshed enclosure today. After a quick visit to a local plant nursery, $30 worth of broken slate pieces, and a couple tubes of JB weld epoxy, they now have their very own rocket outcrop. It should give them lots of warm...