The Missouri Herpetological Association (MHA) held their annual meeting Sept. 29 at Missouri State’s Bull Shoals Field Station. Several Missouri State undergraduate and graduate students presented at the meeting. An * denotes those who presented at the meeting. Authors who are not a part of Missouri State will have their college noted at the end. Ethan C. Hollender*, … [Read more...] about Biology students present research at Bull Shoals Field Station
Dr. Alicia Mathis and biology graduate and undergraduate students traveled to Milwaukee to present at the national annual meeting of the Animal Behavior Society (ABS). The meeting was held on Aug. 2-6 at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Mathis presented research on salamander behavior alongside graduate students, Katy Gardner, Stephanie Morrison and lab staff member … [Read more...] about Biology presents animal behavior research at national meeting
The Missouri Natural Resources Conference (MNRC) was held Feb. 3-5. This conference spans from aquatics to ecology to bats. Several students presented their work. Italicized names are the student authors who presented at the conference. Oral Presentations "Accurately and Precisely Measuring Body Composition of Alligator Snapping Turtles (Macrochelys temminckii) with … [Read more...] about Biology student wins award at conference
With the urging of his adviser, Dr. Alicia Mathis, Colton Lynn applied to become a teaching assistant (TA) in the department of biology. There he helps instruct the roughly 250 students in BIO 121. As the senior-most TA, he also helps to mentor the other assistants. His work in the department earned him the Distinguished TA award. This university-wide accolade recognizes his … [Read more...] about Finding teaching in his genes