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Patek delivers UMass Faculty Honors lecture in tribute to Rachel Carson's Silent Spring. The complete lecture can be viewed here.
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"Strike mechanics of an ambush predator: the spearing mantis shrimp" will appear soon at the Journal of Experimental Biology. Authors Maya deVries (graduate student, Patek Lab), Elizabeth Murphy (former lab manager, Patek Lab) and Sheila Patek examine the kinematics and behavior of spearing... Read More
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Sheila Patek and undergraduate Mike Selden just launched the new website for BURA - UMass' Biology Undergradute Research Apprenticeships program. Check it out!
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Check out our audio slideshow about Jan St. Pierre's 6 weeks in the Patek Lab
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Janice St. Pierre, a high school teacher from Bath NY, joins the lab for a month to do hands-on research and curriculum development. Welcome aboard Jan!
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Patrick Green, a PhD candidate in the Patek lab, was just awarded the title of Most Outstanding TA in the entire OEB program at UMass Amherst for the year.
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Empirical Zeal does a great job writing about some of nature's fastest movements.
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Sheila Patek was awarded a NSF CAREER award. This is a 5-year grant for early career scientists and will focus on the evolutionary mechanics of rapid movement.
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Elizabeth Murphy will be heading to the University of Virginia for a Ph.D. with Prof. Matt Reidenbach. Thomas Claverie is going to the University of California Davis to do a postdoctoral fellowship with Prof. Peter Wainwright. Congratulations to both Elizabeth and Thomas for their... Read More
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As part of his Computational Science graduate fellowship, Michael Rosario's research is featured at the National Laboratories' Deixis magazine.
Patek delivers UMass Faculty Honors lecture in tribute to Rachel Carson's Silent Spring. The complete lecture can be viewed here.
"Strike mechanics of an ambush predator: the spearing mantis shrimp" will appear soon at the Journal of Experimental Biology. Authors Maya deVries (graduate student, Patek Lab), Elizabeth Murphy (former lab manager, Patek Lab) and Sheila Patek examine the kinematics and behavior of spearing... Read More
Sheila Patek and undergraduate Mike Selden just launched the new website for BURA - UMass' Biology Undergradute Research Apprenticeships program. Check it out!
Check out our audio slideshow about Jan St. Pierre's 6 weeks in the Patek Lab
Janice St. Pierre, a high school teacher from Bath NY, joins the lab for a month to do hands-on research and curriculum development. Welcome aboard Jan!
Patrick Green, a PhD candidate in the Patek lab, was just awarded the title of Most Outstanding TA in the entire OEB program at UMass Amherst for the year.
Empirical Zeal does a great job writing about some of nature's fastest movements.
Sheila Patek was awarded a NSF CAREER award. This is a 5-year grant for early career scientists and will focus on the evolutionary mechanics of rapid movement.
Elizabeth Murphy will be heading to the University of Virginia for a Ph.D. with Prof. Matt Reidenbach. Thomas Claverie is going to the University of California Davis to do a postdoctoral fellowship with Prof. Peter Wainwright. Congratulations to both Elizabeth and Thomas for their... Read More