by hageyt | Feb 8, 2024 | Outreach
February 2024 has had a lot of exciting events. My lab participated in outreach events at Aberdeen high school, New Hope middle school, and Mississippi State University’s Science Night at the Museums event. I visited Aberdeen high school, working with three of...
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 15, 2023 | Education
Today students in my Comparative Biomechanics course presented posters summarizing published studies they researched related to biomechanics concepts we covered in class. Our audience were students in our SM100 seminar course. All the students did great presenting...
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...
by hageyt | Aug 28, 2023 | Research
This summer I had the opportunity to visit three natural history museums in Europe! I visited the Natural History Museum in London, the National Museum of Natural History (Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle) in Paris and the Natural History Museum of Marseille...
by hageyt | Jul 22, 2023 | Education, Outreach
Last week, we completed our 5-day, summer course for middle school kids at Plymouth Bluff! With our funding from the NASA Inspires Futures for Tomorrow’s Youth (NIFTY), program, we were able to make this space science course free for participants! We had a total of 25...
by hageyt | Jun 28, 2023 | Research
MUW undergraduate Maddie Guerin practiced finding and catching local Mississippi fence lizards (Sceloporus) in preparation for upcoming gecko...
by hageyt | Jun 23, 2023 | Research
We recently caught some house geckos on Mississippi State University’s campus for an engineering project!...
