Lab News
January, 2013
Jeff Olberding and Kathleen Foster gave excellent talks at the SICB meeting in San Francisco!
Emily Kane gave an excellent poster at the SICB meeting in San Francisco!
November, 2012
Emily Kane is now a PhD candidate!
The Higham Lab welcomes Ola Birn-Jeffery, who is now a postdoc in the lab! She comes from the Royal Veterinary College, where she just finished her PhD with Monica Daley
Tim Higham and Clint Collins returned from a successful trip to Namibia
August, 2012
Tim Higham is heading to the World Congress of Herpetology in Vancouver
July, 2012
Emily Kane's manuscript regarding sculpin morphology appeared in Zoology!!!
June, 2012
Kathleen Foster's manuscript regarding Anolis kinematics appeared in the Journal of Eperimental Biology!!!
April, 2012
Tim Higham has been awarded a 3-year NSF grant!!
The Higham Lab will be welcoming 3 new graduate students in the Fall: Clint Collins (currently an MS student at Georgia Southern), Kevin Jagnandan (current an MS student at Hofstra), and Vicky Zhuang (currently an undergrad at UC Berkeley)!!
March, 2012
Emily Kane, a PhD student in Higham Lab, won the award for best presentation at the annual UCR Gradfest!
January, 2012
Tim Higham returned from a successful trip to South Africa with Krystal Tolley, John Measey, and Anthony Herrel. We collected 4 species of chameleon in across South Africa. Check out the Reptile Speciation Project website for more information.
January, 2012
Emily Kane, Kathleen Foster, and Tim Higham gave oral presentations at the annual SICB meeting in Charleston, SC.
November, 2011
Tim Higham has become an associate editor for Functional Ecology.
July 1, 2011
Tim Higham has been elected as the Secretary of the Division of Comparative Biomechanics (DCB) , which is part of the Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology (SICB).
July 1, 2011
The Higham Lab has moved to the Department of Biology at the University of California, Riverside .
March 30, 2011
A recent paper by Andrew Clark (former postdoc) and Tim Higham examining stability on slippery surfaces just appeared in the Journal of Experimental Biology (issue 8). It has been highlighted by The New York Times and The Telegraph.
March 9, 2011
A paper by Emily Kane and Tim Higham addressing the integration of locomotion and prey capture in sculpins appeared in the Journal of Experimental Biology today (issue 7). Check it out!
January, 2011
Tim Higham has accepted an invitiation to join the editorial board of the Journal of Evolutionary Biology. JEB has an impact factor of 3.816.
December, 2010
Emily Kane was awarded a Sigma Xi grant worth $700!
Emily Kane's paper addressing feeding and locomotion in sculpins has been accepted by the Journal of Experimental Biology
Emily Kane (best oral presentation) and Jeff Olberding (best poster presentation) have picked up awards at the recent Clemson Biological Sciences Annual Student Symposium!
August, 2010
Jeff Olberding and Kathleen Foster are now graduate students in the Higham Lab!
Andrew Clark is now an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biology at the College of Charleston!
May, 2010
Andrew Clark (current postdoc) has accepted a job offer as Assistant Professor in the Department of Biology at the College of Charleston! Congratulations Andrew!! Andrew will be starting in August of 2010.
May, 2010
Tim Higham, Emily Kane (current graduate student), Kathleen Foster (incoming graduate student), and Sandy Kawano (graduate student in Rick Blob’s lab) will be at the Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre on Vancouver Island, Canada for a 3-week course in biomechanics. Pictures to come!
March, 2010
Patrick Fuller, an undergraduate researcher in the lab, was accepted to the Population Biology graduate group at the University of California, Davis. He will begin graduate school (Ph.D.) with Dr. Peter Wainwright in the fall of 2010.
Kathleen Foster, an undergraduate at the University of British Columbia, has accepted an offer to attend graduate school in the Higham Lab. She will join the MS program in the fall of 2010.
Jeff Olberding, an undergraduate at the University of Cincinnati, has accepted an offer to attend graduate school in the Higham Lab. He will join the MS program in the fall of 2010. Jeff conducted research in Bruce Jayne's laboratory in Cincinnati.
November, 2009
A paper by Emily Kane, a graduate student in the lab, recently appeared in the Journal of Experimental Biology: “Comparative feeding kinematics and performance of odontocetes: belugas, Pacific white-sided dolphins and long-finned pilot whales”
September, 2009
A recent paper by Higham and Russell regarding tail autotomy in geckos was highlighted in the New York Times in an article by Henry Fountain. Click here to read the story. This manuscript was also highlighted in Discovery News, Science Daily, CBC News, Calgary Herald, University of Calgary website, and the Clemson website.
August, 2009
A recent paper by Russell and Higham regarding clinging in geckos was highlighted in the Washington Post in an article by Ibby Caputo. Click here to read the story. This manuscript was also highlighted in Science Daily, Discovery News, Globe and Mail, the Clemson website, and the University of Calgary website.