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Grace Curtis won runner-up for Best Lightning Round student presentation at NASCE in May for “Leptin Signaling Stimulates Peripheral Angiogenesis During Xenopus Larval Development.”  Link to awardees

Grace Curtis, along with collaborators, had their paper titled “Trans-ovo permethrin exposure affects growth, brain morphology and cardiac development in quail” published in Environmental Toxicology. Abstract Permethrin is a commonly used, highly effective pesticide in poultry agriculture, and has recently been trialed in conservation efforts to protect Galápagos finch hatchlings from an invasive ectoparasite. Although […]

Grace Curtis received $1,000 from Sigma Xi for her project titled “Leptin’s Functional Role in Angiogenesis during Regeneration and Development”. This project will determine whether the nutritional hormone leptin promotes blood vessel formation during appendage regeneration in Xenopus tadpoles. Studying blood vessel formation during regeneration could yield insight into future human wound healing therapies. Congratulations, […]

Kourtnie received a $1,000 grant from the American Microscopical Society for her research project titled “Testing leptin regulation of mucus secretion in X. tropicalis embryonic mucociliary epidermis: A model for respiratory epithelium” She will be testing the hypothesis that leptin signaling promotes mucus secretion/production in mucociliary epithelia, such as the lining of mammalian respiratory tract, by […]

This past April, Jennifer Madigan was invited to present her research on assessing psychological and physiological stress across the perinatal period in Navy spouses and the potential implications for military nursing practices to the Triservice Nursing Research Program’s Military Women’s Health Research Interest Group (TSNRP MWHRIG).

“With this new National Science Foundation grant, Washington State University will prepare graduate students to tackle a difficult problem that is more than 1,200 miles long: the Columbia River. The five-year, $3 million award will fund a research training program focused on the relationships among rivers, watersheds, and communities. The program is intended to transform […]

A culmination of hard work and collaboration with the Oregon Zoo and the Northwest Trek Wildlife Park, resulted in hundreds of endangered northern leopard frogs being hatched, raised, and released back into the wild of the Columbia National Wildlife Refuge. The Washington state population of northern leopard frogs has a unique genetic variation relative to […]

Biology graduate students Alexis Sullivan and Rachel Berner, and Caretaker Lewis Payne, had a lovely time on a native plant walk with the Palouse Matters group to explore our Palouse Prairie remnant on Smoot Hill. We look forward to future visits! Palouse Matters is a new program in the Washington State University Center for Environmental […]

Biology graduate students Alexis Sullivan and Rachel Berner, and Caretaker Lewis Payne enjoyed a Native Plant Walk at Smoot Hill with the White Pine Chapter of the Idaho Native Plant Society. Together, we observed and identified native plants, learned about the natural history of the ecosystem, and shared some laughs over the summer blooms. Thank […]

The Idaho Master Naturalists Group visited the Hudson Biological Reserve for a Native Plant Walk with Caretaker Lewis Payne and WSU graduate students Alexis Sullivan and Rachel Berner. We had a great time looking at plants, and learning about the ecology and geology of Smoot Hill. We tried some Biscuitroot, Lomatium sp., a native plant and […]