by hageyt | Mar 16, 2019 | Outreach
I had the great opportunity this semester to be involved with the Mississippi Regional middle school science bowl as a volunteer judge and the regional High School science bowl as a timekeeper. These were both new outreach experiences for me. The students competing at...
by hageyt | Mar 15, 2019 | Education
We were lucky enough to receive funding from the Mississippi University for Women Fund B Foundation Faculty Development Funds to support classroom materials. With these funds, we purchased a set of whiteboards for students to use in lecture and lab. ...
by hageyt | Mar 15, 2019 | Outreach, Research
This semester we have added some lizards to the lab! We’ll be using these animals mainly as ambassadors during our school science nights or public events. Although we may take some measurements from them along the way. We have two introduced Mediterranean house...
by hageyt | Mar 14, 2019 | Research
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...
by hageyt | Dec 19, 2018 | Research
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...
by hageyt | Dec 18, 2018 | Education
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...
by hageyt | Nov 7, 2018 | Outreach
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...
by hageyt | Oct 25, 2018 | Outreach
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...
by hageyt | Oct 25, 2018 | Education, Outreach, Research
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:...
by hageyt | Oct 24, 2018 | Education
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...
