Grace McLaughlin accepts offer to join the lab
We are excited to announce that Grace McLaughlin will be joining our lab as a new Ph.D. student in the fall. Grace double-majored in...
The new Dr. Yeaton
Congratulations to the newest PhD in the lab, Dr. Isaac Yeaton! Today, Isaac defended his work on the mechanics of flying snake, showing...
Paper in "Highlights of 2017" in Bioinspiration & Biomimetics
Isaac's paper on equilibrium gliding ("Global dynamics of non-equilibrium gliding in animals") was selected as one of 10 papers in...
Khaled's prelim defense
Congratulations to PhD student Khaled Adjerid, who successfully defended his dissertation proposal at his prelim in the Engineering...
Michelle wins the Vogel Award at SICB 2018
Congratulations to PhD student Michelle Graham, who won the Steven Vogel Award for the best student poster in the Division of Comparative...
SICB 2018 San Francisco
This week we attended the annual meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology in San Francisco. Although there are many...
Ellen graduates from UK
Congrats to Ellen Granata, who graduated today from the University of Kentucky with a degree in information communication and technology....
Holiday lab brunch at the Palisades
Today the lab gathered together to celebrate the holiday season (and an excellent semester of research) at The Palisades Restaurant in...
Melissa's prelim defense
Melissa successfully defended her PhD proposal in her prelim exam today. Congrats Melissa! The PhD defense will be here soon enough. .
Science on Tap: flying snakes
Today I told stories about catching flying snakes at a "Science on Tap" event at the Rivermill in Blacksburg. The talk was generally...
