Lizards in the lab

Lizards in the lab

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...
SICB 2019

SICB 2019

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...
MUW Research Funds for 2019

MUW Research Funds for 2019

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...
Student Biomechanics Poster Session

Student Biomechanics Poster Session

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...
Outreach at New Hope Middle School

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...
Skype-a-Scientist

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...
Biomechanics Bibliography

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

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...
Skyping with Scientists

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...
Mississippi University for Women

Mississippi University for Women

I’m looking forward to joining the Department of Sciences and Mathematics at MUW this fall! I’ll be starting out covering some introductory biology lab sections and my very own 400 level special topics course on biomechanics. I’ll also be on the...