Thanks to Nick for helping coordinate the Center for Teaching Excellence UWide Teaching Conference, in which he also led a workshop on Experiential Learning that featured our field courses in Kenya & the Galapagos.
Congratulations to Stepfanie Aguillon and Nick Mason for winning student presentation awards at the end of the AOU/COS meeting! Likewise congratulations to our former undergraduates Shawn Billerman and Ben Winger for this recognition.
Most of our lab group is in (or headed towards) Estes Park, Colorado for the annual ornithology conference. Even before the main AOU/COS meeting got underway, graduate student Nick Mason co-led a well attended pre-meeting workshop on programming in R. Nick is also the Chair of the Student Affairs committee…
Grad student Nick Mason and undergraduate Mary Margaret Ferraro are back from their collecting trip to Mexico, having succeeded in getting good samples of their target species and numerous other specimens for the CUMV and their collaborating Mexican institutions. Particular kudos to Nick for arranging this expedition on his own…
Nick presents a talk on his collaboration with Scott on redpoll genomics: Mason, N.A. and S.A. Taylor. Differentially expressed genes unite phenotypes despite undifferentiated anonymous loci in the phenotypically diverse redpoll finches (Acanthis). Evolution 2014. Raleigh, North Carolina.
Warmest of congratulations to Nick for passing his oral PhD comprehensive exams with flying colors!
Irby Lovette, Becca Brunner, and Nick Mason are in Galapagos over Spring Break with the 12 freshmen enrolled in their semester-long Galapagos curriculum: a 5-credit version of the Introductory Evolution course and a 3-credit Freshman Writing Seminar.
Nick presents a talk on his epic tanager comparative research at the AOU/COS meeting: Mason, N.A., A.J. Shultz, and K.J. Burns. August 2013. Combining museum and media collections to study multimodal sexual signaling and acoustic adaptations in tanagers (Thraupidae). Joint Annual Meeting of the American Ornithologists’ Union and the Cooper Ornithological Society. Chicago,…
Nick Mason just returned from a successful research trip to the Imperial Valley of California, where he was studying local adaptation in horned larks.