Mason Posner teaches anatomy and physiology, marine and vertebrate biology at Ashland University in Ohio. He does research on the evolution and function of the vertebrate eye lens and has interests in undergraduate research and teaching technology. He leads a science communication capstone courses that teaches Biology majors how to develop science blogs
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Behind the scenes at the Cleveland Zoo

 

My Vertebrate Biology students venture to Cleveland again, this time to take a behind the scenes tour at the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo from Alan Sironen, the Curator of Carnivores and Large Animals (maybe the best job title ever).  Alan showed us the stables, containing zebras (above) and two species of gazelle, including the endangered slender [...]

An evening with Neil Shubin

 

Students in my vertebrate biology class made the trek up to the Cleveland Museum of Natural History to see Dr. Neil Shubin of the University of Chicago talk about his 2006 discovery of Tiktaalik, an important transitional fossil in tetrapod evolution.  After reading some of his papers, chapters from his new book and seeing his [...]

AU faculty attend a workshop on undergraduate research

 

AU was accepted to a National Science Foundation funded conference at Hope College in Michigan on institutionalizing undergraduate research .  This was a great weekend organized by the Council on Undergraduate Research to help institutions build on their current undergraduate research programs by linking us up with facilitators with highly successful existing programs.  This workshop [...]