2021

September

Undergraduate students Drew Tucker and Tim Meidl presented their summer research at the UTK Discovery Day.

August

The Sheldon Lab enjoyed a camping trip to the EEB Field Station in the Smokies to celebrate the end of the field season. The lab spent time hiking, swimming, cooking meals, and biologizing!

April

Morgan and Kimberly took an overnight trip to the mountains to work with salamanders.

Morgan checking out a new friend

Red-backed salamander (Plethodon cinereus)

Morgan looking for salamanders

April

Welcome to Dr. Nigel Andrew, a visiting Fulbright Scholar from University of New England in Armidale, New South Wales, Australia. We’re thrilled to have Nigel in town for the next five months to work on dung beetle projects!

March

Congratulations to lab undergrad alum Will Kirkpatrick on his NSF Graduate Research Fellowship! Will is now a graduate student in Sarah DuRant’s lab at Arkansas. He is using the Eastern Bluebird to understand how temperature variation affects parental care and offspring phenotype. So happy for you Will!

Will with an Eastern Bluebird.