Y'all are going to think that I am obsessed with Up Goer 5-ing everything, but I am at it again! The summer is drawing to a close and we are welcoming three awesome new people to the Perry Lab group this fall: Biology graduate student Cory Henderson (previously mentioned), Anthropology graduate student Maggie Hernandez, and post-doc Katie Grogan. We've also experienced outflow: a few undergraduate scholars have graduated, and Richard Bankoff will be roaming around Madagascar till late next spring. All of these moving parts made us feel that it would be a good idea to reintroduce our individual projects to the lab group. What better way to do that than by limiting your vocabulary and time to present your subject matter?! Elevator pitches are all fine and dandy, but we wanted to have some fun with this :)
This week's blog post is my two-minute summary of my dissertation research. I'll be presenting these slides during our lab meeting next week as an example for everyone else (they'll be presenting theirs August 28th but I'll be traveling then. Look for an update on that next week!). You may find quite a bit of my material is rather familiar... Let me know what you think! Cheers :)
Humans have been around for at least ten hundred hundred years, which is not a very long time when you consider the age of our world. Yet in this small bit of time, humans have become very good at changing the world and the not-human lives around them in all kinds of ways. Sure, humans meant to change some of the animals and green growing things to have more food around, but we are only just realizing how many other animals and green growing things have changed too.