Brian Wisenden, Biosciences Department, gave an invited departmental seminar to the Department of Biological Sciences at Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pa., on March 27. The title of his talk was “Larval morphology, performance and fitness and the evolution of parental care in convict cichlids.” This talk relied upon data collected by MSUM Biosciences undergraduates Anthony Stumbo, Patrick Self, Justin Sheierl, Kurtis […]
Professor Daniel McEwen, Biosciences, will give a lecture Tuesday, April 2 at 7 p.m. in Science Lab 118. The title of the lecture is “Food Webs, Science, and the Global Climate Change Controversy: Perspectives from an Arctic Biologist.” The lecture is part of the College of Social and Natural Sciences lecture series. The lectures focus on current issues in the […]
Meena Balgopal (formerly Biosciences Dept. and currently at Colorado State University) and Alison Wallace, Biosciences, have published a featured article “Writing about socio-scientific issues: a “write” way to improve decision-making skills” in the March issue of “The American Biology Teacher” journal of the National Association of Biology Teachers.
Brian Wisenden, Biosciences, has surpassed 2,000 lifetime citations to his scholarly works. His h-index is 29 (i.e., 29 papers have been cited at least 29 times) and his overall i10-index (number of papers that have been cited at least 10 times) is 46. Since 2008 his work has been cited 963 times, with h and i10 indices of 16 and […]
Harrison Pantera, a junior at MSU Moorhead, has a real dedication to school, and it doesn’t just pertain to his studies. Everyday Pantera sets time aside to take care of Curie, an eight-year-old iguana that lives in the Science Lab on campus. For a year and a half Pantera hasn’t had a day off from his duties of feeding, changing […]