Student Poster Presentations

Student Poster Presentations

This semester, I collaborated with our comparative vertebrate anatomy faculty Dr. Simmons-Diez, to organize an end of the semester poster session. Students in both her class and my biomechanics course, found published articles related to topics we covered in class,...
New EarthDate.org episodes on toe pads

New EarthDate.org episodes on toe pads

I am very excited to share that I was lucky enough to help out the folks at EarthDate.org with two of their science episodes. EarthDate.org are a public service radio program from Austin, Texas and they write and record short science articles/episodes for the public....
Podcast and Skype-a-Scientist chat

Podcast and Skype-a-Scientist chat

Back in March I was lucky, enough to be matched through Skype a Scientist with Ali Wilkinson, who with her three kids in Portland, OR produce the Cool Facts About Animals podcast. I had a great time chatting about day geckos from Mauritius with them and today they...
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”...