Justin Agan graduates as a PhD
Jaina Agan completed her doctoral degree in the summer of 2021 and is now Dr. Agan. She tells everyone that she is finally a Dragan. HaHa. Currently, Jaina is now a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Department of Biology at the University of Central Oklahoma. She is busy submitting manuscipts from her dissertation to peer-reviewed journals. Good Luck, Jaina!
Justin Agan receives SWAN's most prestigious student award
Doctoral candidate Jaina Agan won the Wilks Award at the recent 2021 Annual Meeting. The Wilks Award is given for the best oral paper presented by a student. It, along with the Student Field Natural History Award, is the most prestigious student award that SWAN makes each year. Jaina is the third student from the Fox Lab to win this award and the fifth from Oklahoma State University. Congrats, Jaina!
Past doctoral student gets married, starts a new job, and changes his zip code
Enrique Santoyo-Brito, Ph.D. from the Fox lab in 2017, just got married to fellow graduate student in the Department of Integrative Biology, Carrie Klase, has a job at the University of Illinois, and has moved to Urbana, IL. Lots of life-changing events, all positive, well, except that for the time being, Carrie is not moving with him to Urbana. Enrique is working in the Prairie Research Institute at the University of Illinois as a Scientific Specialist in the Biological
Collections. His major responsibilities are to plan and implement the full integration of the SIUC (Southern Illinois University at Carbondale) fluid vertebrate collection into the Prairie Research Institute Biological Collections.
Justin is the Best
Jaina Agan received the Departmental Outstanding PhD Award from Integrative Biology when she graduated in 2021. She is the sixth student to win this honor in the history of the Fox Lab. Congratulations Jaina and the Fox Lab!
Recent publications from Fox lab
2023 Fox, S. Invited contribution to the blog of Youth Geographic Association in honor of World Lizard Day, 14 August 2023. https://youthgeo.org/world-lizard-day-qa-dr-stanley-fox/
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2023 Wiggins, J.M., J. Landers, J. W. Agan, and S. F. Fox. When do Young Collared Lizards (Crotaphytus collaris) First Copulate with and Fertilize Females? Herpetologica, 79(2): 91–97. URL: https://doi.org/10.1655/Herpetologica-D-22-00039
2023 Carlson, T., E. Cabrera-Guzmán and S. Fox. Explosive Fall Breeding of the Ringed Salamander (Ambystoma annulatum) in the Ozark Plateau of Oklahoma, USA. Southwestern Naturalist, 67(2): 87-94. URL: https://doi.org/10.1894/0038-4909-67.2.87