Snake season!

Next week, the rattlesnakes that my students and I monitor during their active season will be emerging from their den. I will have several students working with me this summer, a few from KU and two of our recent graduates as well as two current Rockhurst students. One of these students, Eric Kadlec, just received the Dean's Undergraduate Fellowship for Research, which will fund his summer contribution to the field work. Congratulations, Eric!

I'm so excited to get started tracking snakes again, especially with these fantastic students!

Update on Evolution Blogs

I just wanted to once again refer everyone to the Evolution Service-Learning blogs linked at the bottom of this page. Recently each group added answers to questions concerning scholarly articles about their respective project topic. These articles and associated questions allowed students to connect the concepts they have read about in their textbook (pictured) & discussed in class with the topic of their specific grid-computing project. Their answers show that these connections have in fact been made, as they effectively apply these concepts to topics like disease and global climate change. I am quite proud of these blog entries and hope you get a chance to check them out!