by Claire Terhune | Nov 6, 2019 | Events, News
Hi, my name is Amber Cooper and over this past summer, I went on a life-changing journey in Texas. Now, even mentioning Texas will bring to mind images of cowboys and unbearable heat, and I must say those images are quite realistic for the state that lauds the...
by cbyoakum | Oct 21, 2019 | Dermestid Daily, Events, News
Freshman Alice Stubbs recently joined the Terhune Lab as an undergraduate researcher. In this blog post she describes what it’s like to find a research lab to work in and what her lab duties are. Welcome to the lab Alice!You may be wondering what’s it like to do...
by Ashly Romero | Jun 4, 2019 | News, Peculiar Primates
Because we saw such an extremely large nose in the last Peculiar Primates feature, we thought you might enjoy the other end of the proboscis spectrum. This week: the snub-nosed monkey! There are currently ten known species of this type of monkey, all in the genus...
by Ashly Romero | Jan 25, 2019 | News, Peculiar Primates
New year, new monkey! We hope you’re all excited to learn about a Southeast Asian primate with an unusually large schnoz – the proboscis monkey (species name Nasalis larvatus)! Male proboscis monkeys have a bulbous nose (like Grumpy or Squidward) that is much bigger...
by Lydia Haake | Dec 18, 2018 | Dermestid Daily, News
Undergrad researcher Lydia Haake has recently completed her undergraduate thesis concerning the best practices of using dermestid beetle colonies for cleaning specimens using house mice and the results are in! The species of dermestid beetle species used in...
by Ashly Romero | Sep 27, 2018 | News, Peculiar Primates
Macaques, like humans, are wide-ranging primates that prosper in many different environments, and as a result, both macaques and humans have been described as “weed species” (1). Apart from choking out your garden and littering your sidewalk, both primate and...
