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 …
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 …
Jane Hood, associate director of the Center for Resource Planning and Management at Missouri State University, was recently awarded $6,000 from Polk County to prepare an Enhanced Enterprise Zone application on behalf of the county. The project will include defining …
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 …
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 …
Dr. Daniel Beckman, professor of biology at Missouri State University, received an award of $10,220 from the City of Springfield. This grant will help assess the health of urban streams flowing through Springfield, monitor the progress toward improvement of water …
Dr. Alicia Mathis, biology department head; Dr. Chris Barnhart, professor of biology; and Adam Crane, laboratory supervisor, co-authored an article for publication with two students: graduate student Andrea Fritts and undergraduate student John Lisek. The article was entitled “Do Gill …
Drs. Chris Barnhart and Lynn Robbins, professors of biologyat Missouri State University, volunteered to present workshops at the Missouri Department of Conservation’s 6th Annual Missouri Master Naturalist Convention in Joplin on Sept. 24. Barnhart presented a session on butterflies and …
Dr. John Havel, professor of biology, was an invited speaker at the Sept. 4-8 “Congresso Brasileiro de Limnologia” (a biennial conference on inland waters) in Natal, Brazil. He was a speaker in a special session on invasive species entitled …
Ten undergraduate and graduate students from the Missouri State University biology department presented their research at the Sept. 24 meeting of the Missouri Herpetological Association: Travis Anthony: “Freshwater turtle community in three rivers in northeastern Oklahoma” Mitch East : “Diet …