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
Dr. Robert Pavlowsky, professor of geography and director of the Ozarks Environmental and Water Resources Institute(OEWRI) at Missouri State University, was awarded $28,033 for continuation of the “Springfield MS4/TMDL Monitoring Project” by the Storm Water Services Division of the Springfield … Continue reading
Professor builds Grindstaff Tricolor Camera with National Science Foundation funds Although photography is classified as an art form, Dr. Mike Reed, associate professor of astronomy at Missouri State University, has developed a new photographic instrument that can be used to … Continue reading
Dr. Ken Vollmar, computer science department head, co-authored a chapter in the book “Service-Learning in Information Sciences.” The chapter is entitled “Some Worked Better than Others: Experience with a Variety of Service-Learning Projects.” In the chapter abstract, Vollmar wrote: “For … 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
Matthew Evans and Catherine Blankenship,Missouri State seniors majoring in hospitality and restaurant administration, each recently received $1,000 scholarships from the Missouri Travel Council.
Dr. Kevin Mickus, professor of geology, has received a $4,000 grant from the City of Springfield for a ground penetrating radar study of Hazelwood Cemetery. The purpose of the project is to attempt to identify possible locations of graves in … Continue reading
Melanie Grand, assistant professor of hospitality and restaurant administration at Missouri State University, was a featured speaker at both the Nutrition Educators Conference and the Missouri Livestock Symposium. Both were held the first weekend of December in Kirksville, Mo. and … 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
Student gives oral presentation at conference for biological science, physics, chemistry James Hansen, a senior physics major at Missouri State University, recently received 2nd place for his oral presentation, “Synthesis and Structural Characterizations of Graphene-supported Tin Oxide Nanoparticles,” at … Continue reading