News Archive

2020

• Everyone enjoy their holiday break!
• Congratulations to Natalie! She was recently awarded a travel award from the Texas A&M Graduate and Professional Student Government Awards and Professional Development Committee! Whoop! (November 2020)
• Danielle submitted her first grant proposal in November; Natalie submitted a proposal too. Nice work, ladies! (November 2020)
• 4th grant proposal of the semester submitted. Still crossing toes and fingers. (November 2020)
• March Mammal Madness manuscript submitted! (November 2020)
• Leila has been busy submitting manuscripts from her dissertation. Hoping we see those accepted soon! (October 2020)
• Congrats to Lacie on submitting her first grant proposal! (October 2020)
• NSF Grant proposals #2 and #3 submitted. Fingers are already crossed, so toes crossed! (October 2020)
• NSF Grant proposal #1 Submitted 1 September 2020! Fingers crossed...(September 2020)
• Welcome to the start of the Fall 2020 semester. Good luck everyone! (August 2020)
• The Light lab supports international students. (July 2020)
• The Light lab pledges to oppose racism & hate through active allyship and continual unlearning, learning, and listening and we expect the same of our colleagues. Dr. Light pledges to use her tenured position for anti-racist purposes. Please see the Anti-Discrimination Resources page for useful reading and resources. ​​(June 2020)
• Black Lives Matter (June 2020)
• Congratulations to Light Lab graduates Alex and Stephen! And to all the other TAMU graduates! (May 2020)
• Hello COVID-19. I hope everyone out there is healthy. (April 2020)
• Waiting on spring break....until then, back to the lab and getting caught up. (March 2020)
• Jessica hosted Dr. Sharon Jansa from the University of Minnesota for the Texas Society of Mammalogists and the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Seminar. It was a great visit! (February 2020)
• Jessica is wrapping up her year as president of the Texas Society of Mammalogists. Annual meeting is this weekend at the Texas Tech Junction Center. Follow along at #TSM2020 (February 2020)
• Massive manuscript on rodent ectoparasites published in Therya. Check it out! (February 2020)
• Two manuscripts re-submitted during the first week of classes. Fingers crossed for acceptance! (January 2020)
• Happy New Year! (January 2020)