Student Update

Student Update

As this chaotic semester winds to a close, I hope everyone has figured out how to adjust to their new routines. I am excited to report some exciting updates for my student Bailey Howell! Her NSF GRFP project (written in conduction with Josef Uyeda) received an...
Spring Updates

Spring Updates

Its been a crazy semester so far, and that’s even before all the corona chaos! I’m very excited to announce that we’ve been able to find a couple little pieces of funding to support teaching, outreach, and research! We received a small grant from the Society for the...
January travel for WCH and SICB

January travel for WCH and SICB

December and January were busy months!  Late December, I went to New Zealand to attend the World Congress of Herpetology conference, an international conference that only happens every four years. Traveling with Maggie Haines, we rented a camper van and “tramped”...
Upcoming open source biology 101 course

Upcoming open source biology 101 course

I am excited to learn that my proposal to update our general biology 101 course here at the W to use all open source material was approved by the University of Mississippi Open Education Resource Z-Degree project, which is supported by the William and Flora Hewlett...
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...
October Outreach

October Outreach

This week I was lucky enough to be involved with two different public engagement activities! Last weekend I gave a public seminar at a local coffee shop in town here in Columbus (Three sisters Pie Company) as part of a monthly public seminar program organized by Dr....
Teaching award for skulls

Teaching award for skulls

After a busy first month of fall semester, we got some very exciting news! I was awarded some funds though a MUW APIL Teaching Innovation Grant. APIL stands for active, problem-based, inquiry-based learning. I’ll be purchasing a set of replica primate and...
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...