Ashley Whaley, graduate student in the biology department at Missouri State University, was awarded a $11,200 fellowship continuation by the Rob and Bessie Welder Wildlife Foundation. Whaley is evaluating a rangeland education curriculum developed by the Welder Wildlife Foundation and … Continue reading
Biology student Erin Murray and Dr. Day Ligon, assistant professor of biology, presented research at the annual meeting of the Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology. The meeting took place Jan. 3-7 in South Carolina. Murray presented “Predation in the Strawberry … Continue reading
College of Natural and Applied Sciences Laboratory Supervisor Adam Crane and Dr. Alicia Mathis, biology department head, recently published an article in Zoo Biology. The piece was entitled “Predator-Recognition Training: A Conservation Strategy to Increase Postrelease Survival of Hellbenders in … Continue reading
Biology graduate student Denise Thompson, advised by Dr. Day Ligon, won the Toland Award for Best Student Presentation at the recent Kansas Herpetological Society’s annual conference in Wichita. Her presentation was entitled “Rocky Raccoon Must Die: Nest Predation Patterns in … Continue reading
Biology graduate student Joe Lemen, advised by Dr. Lynn Robbins, received the Best Student Presentation by a Master’s Student award for his talk on maximum entropy modeling of habitat for Indiana bat maternity roosts. He presented this at the Central … Continue reading
Missouri State University biologists recently published an article in the International Journal of Ecology. The work, which was written by Adam Crane, laboratory supervisor for the College of Natural and Applied Sciences; Carly McGrane, a recent biology graduate; and Dr. … Continue reading
Missouri State University will compete in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) 2011 Game Day Challenge during the Homecoming football game on Oct. 29. Colleges across the country are competing to see which schools can reduce, reuse and recycle the most … Continue reading
Grant funds examination of rivers in southwest Missouri Dr. Chris Barnhart, biology professor, has received a $15,715 grant. The grant, from the Missouri Department of Conservation, will be used to assess mussel communities in the Sac and Pomme de … Continue reading
Cooperative program provides direction, outreach Dr. Alicia Mathis, professor and head of the department of biology at Missouri State University, was awarded a $73,500 grant from the National Park Service to continue the “Fire Effects Monitoring in Central Great … Continue reading
Dr. Day Ligon, assistant professor of biology at Missouri State University, received continued funding of $21,696 from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service through the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation for the project “A Survey of Alligator Snapping Turtle … Continue reading