2024 Lab Highlights
October 2024
Fall lab outing. Pumpkin carving with goats. The goats helped!
September 2024
Mia Goodson joins the lab as research associate. Welcome Mia!
August 2024
Erika Blaine joins the lab as research associate. Welcome Erika!
July 2024
Jenna and Morgan travel to the University of Washington, Seattle for the annual Canine Science Society Meeting, https://www.caninesciencesociety.org. Morgan presents her talk entitled “Canine Social Preferences Across the Lifespan.”
May 2024
The lab hosts a bittersweet going away party for Polar, a service dog-in-training for Canine Companions who has been trained by our graduate student, Morgan. Polar was part of our research as well in collaboration with the Duke Canine Cognition Center/Puppy Kindergarten (https://evolutionaryanthropology.duke.edu/duke-puppy-kindergarten). We celebrate and honor Polar with a walk through the Duke Gardens and lots of yummy treats and toys!
April 2024
Olivia Timmermans, 1st year Duke graduate student is awarded a Graduate Research Fellowship (GRFP) from the National Science Foundation, https://www.nsfgrfp.org. Her award is entitled “Illuminating the neural and behavioral representations of intergroup social ties in mice.” Congrats, Olivia!
February 2024
Polar, service dog in training, hard at work
January 2024
The McHenry lab hosts a Spring Semester Duke Muser (https://muser.duke.edu) research project entitled “Illuminating social behavior phenotypes using machine learning.” This platform fosters an equitable and inclusive undergraduate research experience, with mentorship from graduate students and a postdoc in the lab.