Travis Hagey’s lab
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
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...
Biomechanics Bibliography
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:...
Student Poster Funding
I'm excited to share that our MUW Faculty Senate Foundation Endowment Fund B proposal to cover the costs of student posters has been approved! At the conclusion of my BSB 485 Special Topics course on Biomechanics, students will build and present a poster sharing the...
Skyping with Scientists
As part of my BSB 485 Special Topics course on biomechanics this semester, I arranged for the class to Skype with scientists from the US and the UK doing research relevant to the class. I very intentionally reached out to a set of female scientists to invite to speak...