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Gary McCracken on NPR

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Gary McCracken will be interviewing tomorrow (Wednesday 1/14) on the NPR radio show “On Point with Tom Ashbrook.”  This show is a call-in format that airs live from 11 AM – 12 Noon.  We’ll be talking about bats, Ebola, and hopefully bat conservation.

Here are directives to the show from NPR:  The site for our hour is located at this link: http://wbur.fm/14S6wjq

We’re located on Twitter @OnPointRadio and on Facebook at Facebook.com/OnPointRadio. Our host, Tom Ashbrook, tweets @TomAshbrookNPR. Feel free to direct your friends and followers to the show on any digital platform that works best for you. #OnPointRadio

Playdate with Burghardt (Updated)

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UPDATE:  The local NPR station, WUOT, aired an interview with Gordon Burghardt on October 24 for the program, Changing Course.  Burghardt discussed play throughout the animal world and his pregame showcase.

Alumni Distinguished Service Professor Gordon Burghardt is known for his research on animal behavior, particularly playing behavior in taxa that are not thought to play. His research on play in cichlid fish has been featured recently in the international press.

This Saturday, Burghardt will be talking about the importance of play at the Pregame Showcase, prior to the football game against the Alabama Crimson Tide.  The showcase will begin at 5:30 p.m., two hours before kickoff, in the Carolyn P. Brown University Center Ballroom (Room 213).  The showcase is free and open to the public, and it features a thirty-minute presentation followed by a fifteen-minute question-and-answer session. A brief reception will be held after the program, and a door prize will be awarded.

 

 

 

Veronica Brown on WATE

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EEB Researcher Veronica Brown, from the McCracken Lab, appeared on the WATE Evening News shortly before 5pm on Wednesday September 10, to provide expert information about bats.  A bat interrupted the WATE Good Morning Tennessee broadcast around 6am that morning; the incident made national news (e.g. New York Daily News)!

Thank you, Veronica, for helping set the record straight about bats!

Rhododendron Grant for Pfenningwerth

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Alix Pfenningwerth, a graduate student in the Schweitzer Lab, won a Fellowship from the American Rhododendron Society this summer.  Her research proposes to study how genetic variation in Rhododendron species influences physiological performance under a changing climate, including increasingly fluctuating temperatures, moisture regimes, soil nutrient cycling, and interactions with pathogens, herbivores, and beneficial microbes.