Lab News! 

Spring 2026

Congratulations to master's student Laini Legere for being awarded the VU Biology Academic Year Research Fellowship Award for 2026-2027!

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Congratulations to VU undergraduate Peyton Gibbs for being awarded the Villanova Undergraduate Research Fellowship (VURF) to support her summer research examining the interaction of temperature and predators on fiddler crab behavior.

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Both master's students Elianna Fox & Laini Legere received the Villanova Graduate School Summer Research Fellowship to help support their graduate work.

Congrats to undegrad Patrick Morin for being 1 of 5 Villanova students to be selected to present at the Big East Championship poster session. 

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2025 
This fall we welcomed our lab's first Master's Students: Laini Legere & Elianna Fox. We are so excited for them to join the lab and can't wait to see what amazing research they do! 

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Congratulations to VU undergraduate Patrick Morin for being awarded the Villanova Undergraduate Research Fellowship (VURF) to support his summer research examining the environmental drivers of parasites in the Eastern Mud snail along the Delaware River.