Travis Hagey’s lab

SICB 2019

SICB 2019

I had a great time this year at SICB in Tampa. The gecko symposium was really amazing. It was inspiring and anxiety-induing to see all the awesome work that the rest of the gecko community is doing. I received a lot of great interest and feedback on my poster! Which...

MUW Research Funds for 2019

MUW Research Funds for 2019

I'm excited to let everyone know that we have been awarded funds from the MUW Faculty Research Committee and the Mississippi Space Grant Consortium to support three undergraduate researchers next semester (Arpana Upadhyay, Bailey Howell, and Elizabeth Fain) as well as...

Student Biomechanics Poster Session

Student Biomechanics Poster Session

In my 485 biomechanics course, I had students find published studies related to the course that interested them and we worked to turn them into posters. In place of a final, students designed and printed their posters outlining the goals, methods, and results of their...

Outreach at New Hope Middle School

Outreach at New Hope Middle School

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 gecko...

Skype-a-Scientist

Skype-a-Scientist

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 with: Montessori...