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.
Dr. Paul Sando, Anthropology and Earth Science, has authored a chapter of the book; Beyond the Border: Tensions across the Forty-Ninth Parallel in the Great Plains and Prairies (Conway, Kyle, and Tim Pasch, Editors), now entering the final proof prior to printing at MacGill-Queen’s University Press in Canada. The chapter is titled; Water and Political Relations between the Upper Plains […]
Rinita Dalan, Anthropology and Earth Science, will present two papers at the Society for American Archaeology meetings in Honolulu, Hawaii during the week of April 1. The first paper, “Archaeological Prospection Advances for Non-Destructive Investigations: Contributions of the National Park Service Workshop”, was co-authored by Rinita Dalan, Steven L. De Vore, and Bruce Bevan.