We’re proud of the graduates of 2017! We’ll miss you and we wish you the best in your next steps. We hope that you’ll visit often and keep in touch. Earning a B.S.: Emma Darr, Miranda Hendrix, Jennifer Janowsky and Amelia Lormand Earning an M.S.: Emma Tower Earning a Ph.D.: Dr. Kimberly Mighell And [...] Class of 2017
We’re proud of the graduates of 2017! We’ll miss you and we wish you the best in your next steps. We hope that you’ll visit often and keep in touch. Earning a B.S.: Emma Darr, Miranda Hendrix, Jennifer Janowsky and Amelia Lormand Earning an M.S.: Emma Tower Earning a Ph.D.: Dr. Kimberly Mighell And [...] Congratulations to Dr. Kimberly Mighe...
Dr. Kimberly Mighell became the first Ph.D. to graduate from the Van Bael lab at Tulane! She defended her thesis on March 3 and participated in the hooding ceremony on May 19, 2017. Her next step is a position as a “Visiting Assistant Professor” in Tulane’s Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. She’s not tired of us [...] STEAM time at the Studio in the Woods
Our lab participated in a STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art and math) program out at the Studio in the Woods. We piloted the first ever, “Kid Master Plan for Coastal Management” workshop. Kids worked in teams of three to design and build the coast, using a physical model. The City Planner decided where to place [...] Girls in STEM at Tulane
It was another successful day sharing our research with middle school girls. A huge thank you to all of the volunteers who helped make this day [...] Flooding in the swamp
The Van Bael lab had a successful field trip to a baldcypress swamp! Liz led the charge as Lorena, Miranda and Emma Darr came along to help collect soil for our seedling flooding experiment. Back home at Tulane, the team is working together to study how flooding influences the bacterial and fungal endophyte ratios in [...] Kim Mighell defends her Ph.D. dissert...
On Friday March 3, Kimberly Mighell (pictured at the far left) became the first Van Bael Ph.D. student to defend her dissertation. The day was a success and Kim is preparing her corrections and getting ready for the hooding event on May 19. Congrats to (almost) Dr. Mighell! You can read more about Kim’s research here! [...]