Department of Zoology and Physiology
1000 E. University Ave
Aven Nelson, room 114
Laramie, WY 82071
Phone: 307-766-4207
Fax: 307-766-5625
Email: zprequest@uwyo.edu
March 6, 2019 -- The Department of Zoology and Physiology professor recently was named the American Ornithological Society’s 2019 winner of the William Brewster Memorial Award. The honor is given each year to the author or co-authors of an exceptional body of work on birds of the Western Hemisphere. Read More.
January 24, 2019 -- Laura Gomez-Murillo, a University of Wyoming master’s degree student from Colombia, begins a research adventure in Panama Jan. 28 by virtue of receiving a Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute internship. Read More.
January 10, 2019 -- University of Wyoming student Jelard Aquino, from Cheyenne, received a three-month research internship with the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama beginning in February. Read More.
January 10, 2019 -- A second-year medical student from Ranchester has been recognized for her efforts to combat a gestational disease in Nepal. Read More
For more than 12 years, Dr. Merav Ben-David and her wildlife students at the University of Wyoming have been chasing least chipmunks up at Happy Jack Recreation Area, located outside of Laramie. Each year, they trap them, measure the little critters and quantify their habitat and food availability. And, each year, the students in Ben-David’s “Wildlife Ecology and Management” class come up with a hypothesis or question they want to study regarding these small mammals. Ben-David has extended this experience the previous summers to high school students from as part of the Native American Summer Institute. “What makes this different than other labs or similar activities is that, every year, the class develops a new research question,” says Ben-David, a zoology professor of the Course-based Undergraduate Research Experience. “We spend the rest of the semester addressing the question with the data we’ve collected.” Over the years, this chipmunk experience has helped Ben-David’s undergraduate students decide to enroll in graduate school and continue honing their research skills. And it keeps them asking questions.
Watch video of the ongoing chipmunk research;
Department of Zoology and Physiology
1000 E. University Ave
Aven Nelson, room 114
Laramie, WY 82071
Phone: 307-766-4207
Fax: 307-766-5625
Email: zprequest@uwyo.edu