Nine student speakers recognized in the field of biology Students from the department of biology gave presentations alongside Missouri State faculty at the Missouri Herpetological Association meeting in Jefferson City. Presentations are listed next to the names of student speakers and accompanying faculty: Travis Anthony with Dr. Daren Riedle and Dr. Day Ligon: … [Read more...] about Student speakers present to Missouri Herpetological Association
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 Poison Frog Oophaga Pumilio: Are Adults and Juveniles Equally Protected from Ctenid Spiders?” and Ligon … [Read more...] about BIO Student, faculty research of spiders, turtles makes splash at conference
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 the Arkansas INBRE Research Conference. Hansen’s research is with … [Read more...] about Physics student wins award for presentation
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 a Reintroduced Population of Alligator Snapping Turtles.” In addition, two other MSU graduate … [Read more...] about Graduate students present biology research at regional conference
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 Plains Society of Mammalogists meeting. … [Read more...] about Graduate student wins ‘best presentation’ at mammalogist meeting