Balenger lab 2020: Susan Balenger, Brooke Sykes, Will Brock, Sarah Amonett, and Josh Smith
2022 - Big Year!
2017
- 4 year NSF grant awarded to Leary, Balenger, and Day!
- Susan leaves Mississippi to return to the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities!
- MS students Brooke Sykes and Sarah Amonett both complete their theses and go one to bigger things! Brooke is now a PhD student at the University of Arizona, and Sarah is an Instructor at the University of South Arkansas!!! We are so proud :)
- Undergraduate Honors student Josh Smith graduates and begins medical school at the University of South Alabama. Congratulations Josh!
- Paper led by postdoc Dr. Kristin Sikkink published in Ecology and Evolution
- MS students Brooke Sykes and Sarah Amonett both complete their theses and go one to bigger things! Brooke is now a PhD student at the University of Arizona, and Sarah is an Instructor at the University of South Arkansas!!! We are so proud :)
- Two papers accepted this month: 1 in the Journal of Evolutionary Biology and 1 in Ecology & Evolution
- Congratulations to Josh Smith for receiving a summer SURF award
- Susan presented a poster at this years Animal behavior Society meeting in Chicago, IL.
- Congratulations to Spring 2019 graduating Honors students: McKenzie Denton, Gurshan Kaur, and Meredith Fry.
- Susan, Brooke, and Sarah all presented at the 2019 SICB meeting in Tampa. So much fun!
- Check out the Balenger lab (and UM Biology Dept.) on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhZBVIY4Wo4&feature=youtu.be
- Thanks to the British Ecological Society for funding Susan's experiment this Spring!
- Congratulations to Brooke Sykes and Sarah Amonett on their research grants from the University of Mississippi Field Station!
- Congratulations to McKenzie Denton for being admitted to medical school at UMMC!
- Congratulations to Meredith Fry for receiving $1000 from the Barksdale Honors College to support her undergraduate thesis research!
- September 2018 - New paper on behavioral plasticity in response to social density cues accepted in the Journal of Insect Behavior
- July 2018 - The Balenger lab had a great time working with the middle school STEM campers out at the UM field station. Everyone loves the finches!
- April 2018 - Welcome postdoc Dr. Kristin Sikkink to the lab!
- Congratulations Brooke & Sarah for receiving research grants from the Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology!
- Congratulations Sarah for receiving a research grant from the North American Bluebird Society!
2017
- Congratulations Brooke for receiving the McRight Graduate Scholars Award!