Revisiting Poecilia thermalis, after 150 years
On last year’s Mexico trip, we rediscovered a small fish species (Poecilia thermalis) that has not been collected since its first discovery in 1848. The species is a sulfide spring inhabitant,...
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Garrett Hopper joins the lab as a Master’s student
Garret Hopper, previously a reliable force in the lab as a technician, decided to stay at OSU to pursue a M.S. degree. Garrett received his Bachelor’s degree in OSU’s Department...
Open house at OSU Zoology’s fish facilities
Together with the Oklahoma Aquarium Association, we are organizing an open house in our fish facilities in OSU’s Department of Zoology. We will offer tours through our fishrooms, short presentation...
Brandon Bassett rocking CVHS research program
Brandon Bassett successfully finished his summer internship through the Center of Veterinary Health Sciences Summer Research Training Program. Brandon not only established a method to expose sulfidic and non-sulfidic populations...
Danielle Alba and Reid Morehouse receive awards at SWAN
Danielle Alba has received the Southwestern Association of Naturalist’s Howard McCarley Student Research Award for 2013. The award is granted to support students in higher education researching biota of the...
Scholarships and grants for undergraduate researchers
Our undergraduates Cierra Keith and Ryan Greenway have received support for their research. Cierra Keith, currently a Freshman Research Scholar at OSU, has received a Virginia Richmond Scholarship and a Hunter Stone...
Courtney Passow received SICB fellowship
Courtney Passow was awarded a Fellowship of Graduate Student Travel by the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB). These fellowships are awarded to “provide students with funds for travel and...
ALA’s Vern Perish Award to Courtney Passow
Courtney Passow received the Vern Perish Award from the American Livebearer Association for her work on elucidating the genetic basis of adaptation in extremophile mollies. The Vern Parish Fund was...
Courtney Passow receives National Science Foundation recognition
Graduate student Courtney Passow has been awarded another honorable mention for the National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship. Considering the volume of applications received by the program, this is...
Ryan Greenway talks about his research
As part of the Niblack Scholarship program at OSU, our very own Ryan Greenway talks about his research. Ryan has been working on a variety of projects, including estimating of...