Everyone is adapting to the pandemic, and academia is no different. Here at Rollins we are all back in the classroom and in the laboratory. I have to shift from teaching about physiology one minute and conspiracies the next. It is quite a delicate task and I hope not to confuse the two. In the lab, 2 students will be conducting their honors research, Yoke Tassent will be doing a pharmacology study on the slider turtles of Lake Virginia. I must say I am partial to any field site that I can visit from my office with a coffee in my hand. Anna Kaza will be developing a novel tool for research into stress using our lizard colony. Its all exciting stuff. In the meantime, articles on birds/fish and on bats have come out recently with collaborators from Canada, Uruguay, and Israel, and former Rollins students have published their own research on lizards in hurricanes and lizard hormones. More studies are coming down the pipeline, with work on sparrows, turtles and badgers in the queue. We have also just applied for another grant from the NSF. Fingers and eyes crossed.
Its a busy time, especially with being the chair of my department, but stuff like this keeps me motivated and frankly off the streets which is good for everybody.
Its a busy time, especially with being the chair of my department, but stuff like this keeps me motivated and frankly off the streets which is good for everybody.