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March 27, 2020

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 […]

Biosciences
March 25, 2020

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
February 27, 2020

Bioscience research students present posters at MN The Wildlife Society meeting

Dr. Donna Bruns Stockrahm and Dr. Christopher Merkord, Biosciences Department, took 13 Bioscience research students (and members of the MSUM Student Chapter of The Wildlife Society) to the Annual Meeting of the Minnesota Chapter of The Wildlife Society held in Willmar, MN, on 18-20 February 2020.  The students presented 6 posters on their research:  Morphometrics of female painted turtles (Chrysemys […]

Biosciences
February 27, 2020

MSUM Biosciences research students win best undergraduate poster award

MSUM Biosciences Research Students won the “Best Undergraduate Poster Award” at the Annual Meeting of the Minnesota Chapter of The Wildlife Society held in Willmar, MN, on 18-20 February 2020.   In a long-term study (2001-2019), research students from the Biosciences Department at MSUM have live-trapped and marked over 1,000 painted turtles (Chryemys picta belli) in Clay County, Minnesota, in order […]

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