Lab News

Emily completed her undergraduate thesis project and graduated with distinction in Biology! She will be starting veterinary school at Virginia Tech next fall!! – Congrats!!!

Izzi completed her undergraduate thesis project and graduated with distinction in Evolutionary Anthropology! – Congratulations!!!

Ryan was awarded the Duke Biology Graduate TA award this semester! – Congrats, Ryan!!!

Izzi presented a poster at the Duke University Visible Thinking Symposium!

Congratulations to Dr. Erin McKenney!!! – Erin successfully defended and has accepted a position as a post-doc in Rob Dunn’s lab at NC State! Great work, Erin!

Anne was invited to give a talk for the International Symposium on Biodiversity in Madagascar at Sokendai in Japan!!!

She will present a talk on the origin and evolution of mammals in Madagascar!

Erin was awarded the 2017 Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching! – Congrats, Erin!!!

This marks the first time a BioGrad has won the award since its inception! Read more about it here!

Erin presented at the Creativity in Science Teaching Conference in London!

Her talk was entitled “Student-centered course design leverages creativity for effective, enhanced education.”

Ryan has been awarded a Bass Teaching Fellowship!

He will teach his own undergraduate course entitled “Methods in Computation Biology and Genomics” during the 2017-2018 academic year!!!

Erin was invited to give a talk at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute at the National Zoo!

She will present her talk “A tale of two systems: captive studies of gut microbiota at the Duke Lemur Center and the National Zoo” on October 21st!

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