Research

Howey Presents ‘Thermoregulation & Energy Expenditures of Black Racers in Thermally Contrasting, Burned & Unburned Landscapes’

Biological Sciences alum Christopher Howey ’14Ph.D. presented a paper on “Thermoregulation and Energy Expenditures of Black Racers (Coluber constrictor) in Thermally Contrasting, Burned and Unburned Landscapes” at the 2014 Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists July 30 to Aug. 4 in Chattanooga, TN. Howey earned a Ph.D. in Biological Sciences from […]

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August 5, 2014 at 1:56 pmAlumni Research

Hantak Presents ‘Color Polymorphism in the Eastern Red-backed Salamander’

Maggie Hantak, graduate student

Biological Sciences graduate student Maggie Hantak presented a paper on “Color Polymorphism in the Eastern Red-backed Salamander (Plethodon cinereus): How Morphs are Seen through the Eyes of Visual Predators” at the 2014 Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists July 30 to Aug. 4 in Chattanooga, TN. Her co-author was Dr. Shawn […]

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August 5, 2014 at 1:39 pmResearch

Gilbert Presents ‘Relating Thermal Performance to Variation in Resource Use: Implications for Lizards in a Warming World’

Gilbert Presents ‘Relating Thermal Performance to Variation in Resource Use: Implications for  Lizards in a Warming World’

  Biological Sciences graduate student Anthony L. Gilbert presented a paper on “Relating Thermal Performance to Variation in Resource Use: Implications for  Lizards in a Warming World” at the 2014 Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists July 30 to Aug. 4 in Chattanooga, TN. His co-author was Dr. Donald B. Miles, […]

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August 5, 2014 at 1:30 pmResearch

Farallo Presents ‘Exploring Below the Undergrowth: The Role of Microhabitat in the Evolutionary Ecology of Plethodontid Salamanders’

Farallo Presents ‘Exploring Below the Undergrowth: The Role of Microhabitat in the  Evolutionary Ecology of Plethodontid Salamanders’

Biological Sciences graduate student Vincent Farallo presented a paper on “Exploring Below the Undergrowth: The Role of Microhabitat in the  Evolutionary Ecology of Plethodontid Salamanders” at the 2014 Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists July 30 to Aug. 4 in Chattanooga, TN. His co-author was Dr. Donald Miles, Professor of Biological […]

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August 5, 2014 at 1:20 pmResearch

Biological Sciences Students & Alumni Present at Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists

Eight Biological Sciences students and two recent alumni presented papers at the 2014 Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists July 30 to Aug. 4 in Chattanooga, TN. Graduate students presenting papers at the conference: Danny D’Amore – Maternal environment influences development of behavioral syndrome in the swordtail fish, Xiphophorus multilineatus […]

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August 5, 2014 at 1:13 pmResearch

D’Amore Presents ‘Maternal Environment Influences Development of Behavioral Syndrome in Swordtail Fish’

D’Amore Presents ‘Maternal Environment Influences Development of Behavioral Syndrome in Swordtail Fish’

Biological Sciences graduate student Danny D’Amore presented “Maternal Environment Influences Development of Behavioral Syndrome in Swordtail Fish, Xiphophorus multilineatus” at the 2014 Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists July 30 to Aug. 4 in Chattanooga, TN. His co-authors were Oscar Rios-Cardenas of the Instituto de Ecología in Mexico and Dr. […]

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August 5, 2014 at 1:03 pmResearch

Math Professors Get NSF Grant to Attack the Curse of Dimensionality

Dr. Martin J. Mohlenkamp, Associate Professor and Graduate Chair of Mathematics, and Dr. Todd Young, Professor of Mathematics, received an NSF grant for computational mathematics work. The Curse of Dimensionality is that high-dimensional problems are much, much harder than low-dimensional problems. “Although in our everyday lives we perceive space as […]

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August 4, 2014 at 4:31 pmResearch