The research in our lab has been fortunate to receive a great deal of National and International Media attention, and a few interesting examples are provided below. We adhere to the notion that researchers in any Scientific endeavor should be cognizant of how their work relates to broader issues in human society.
For all media personnel: Contact Duncan J. Irschick
PhD student Josh Moyer is presenting his research on sand tiger shark feeding at Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles in July 2019!
Duncan Irschick gave a TedX talk at Tedx Amherst! You can see the video here!
Our lab has been awarded two grants - an Armstrong grant to develop new 3D methods to visualize animal and human movement, and a grant from the Life Sciences Moment Fund to develop new 3D methods to visualize human skin in collaboration with Dr. John
Harris from UMASS Medical School
Undergraduate Leah DeLorenzo gave a talk at SICB 2018 on her research into skink morphology!
Duncan Irschick was recently featured in the FOX Nature Documentary, Natureknowsbest - Go Geckskin!
The Beastcam technology was recently featured in two shows on the Daily Planet, one for scanning lizards, and another in which we scanned a shark!
The Beastcam technology was recently featured in several leading online tech sites, including Digital Trends, Gizmodo, and NBC news, among others. Congrats to co-inventors Kasey Smart and Dylan Briggs!
Graduate student Chi-Yun Kuo took a postdoc position at Duke University with Sheila Patek!
Duncan Irschick just gave a talk at the TTI/Vanguard Conference in San Diego in February 2015. This conference features novel technologies and invites major corporations, entrepreneurs, and inventors.
Our paper in Trends in Ecology and Evolution on using evolutionary tools to study animal conservation is out! We are featured on the cover! View paper
Duncan Irschick returned from a successful research trip (November 2014) to the Bahamas in which he and other members of the University of Miami successfully tagged 12 tiger sharks!
Our laboratory, in collaboration with Al Crosby from Polymer Sciences and John Harris from UMASS Med, have received a $75,000 Life Sciences Moment Fund grant to create new skin adhesives from Geckskin™!
Duncan Irschick was awarded the College Outstanding Faculty Research Award by the University of Massachusetts!
"Oddball" Science has proven worth say UMASS Amherst Biologists. From the UMASS press release "Writing in a recent issue of BioScience, researchers Patricia Brennan, Duncan Irschick, Norman Johnson and Craig Albertson argue that "innovations often arise from unlikely sources" and "reducing our ability to creatively examine unique biological phenomena will ultimately harm not only education and health but also the ability to innovate, a major driver of the global economy."
New paper in Advanced Materials shows that Geckskin can stick to everything!: Our paper in Advanced Materials came out on April 24, 2014. This paper has received major international attention, including over 20,000 hits in our amazing geckskin on everything video! This paper has gotten lots of media attention, including articles in Discovery News and gizmag.com
