It’s almost summer!
Just kidding! But it’s time to plan your Summer 2020 schedule now.
Wisenden publishes review paper in Diversity
Brian Wisenden, Biosciences Department, published a review paper in a special issue of the journal Diversity. The special issue is entitled “Predators as Agents of Selection and Diversification.” The review article summarizes 21 years of research at MSUM on the evolution of antipredator competence in larval convict cichlids that involved field work with MSUM undergraduates in Costa Rican streams and […]
Wisenden publishes paper in international peer-reviewed journal
Brian Wisenden, Biosciences Department, published a paper in the international peer-reviewed Wilson Journal of Ornithology on signal evolution in red-winged blackbirds. Collaborators on this project were Muir Eaton from Drake University and 23 undergraduates who comprised the summer field courses in Animal Behavior (Wisenden) and Field Ornithology (Eaton) at the Itasca Biological Field Station, University of Minnesota. Open-ended inquiry-based pedagogy […]
MSUM team places second in Mayo Clinic’s annual IMPACT competition
A team of four MSUM undergraduates — Bioscience majors Kayla Mehrer, Asma Mohammed, Andrea Schaefer, and Nick VanRaden mentored by Biosciences professor Adam Stocker — was awarded second place in the Mayo Clinic’s annual IMPACT competition. The team submitted a proposal earlier this semester detailing their hypothesis explaining what may be the mechanistic link between binge alcohol drinking, addiction, and […]
Biosciences faculty, student published in JMBE inclusive Science Issue
Biosciences faculty members Sumali Pandey, Bee Wisenden and undergraduate student Whitney Shegrud were published in JMBE inclusive Science Issue. The topic of their work: “Using student-led Discussion and Reflection of a Public Health-Related Nonfictional Book as a Tool to Encourage Inclusive Pedagogy in an Undergraduate Classroom”