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June 2024
Professor Andrew Biewener retires to become the Lyman Research Professor Emeritus at the Concord Field Station in the Departent of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology. A festschrift honoring his career was held at Harvard University organized by Talia Moore, Glenna Clifton, Ty Hedrick and Nicolai Konow, together with the wonderful CFS faculty assistants, Lisa Litchfield and Andra Hollis.
March 2024
Andy co-organized a symposium with Alan Wilson (Royal Veterinary College) in Murren, Switzerland with the theme "Integrating Biomechanics, Energetics and Ecology Perspectives in Locomotion", sponsored by the Journal of Experimental Biology.
July 2023
Andy was an invited speaker at the Society for Experimental Biology's (Edinburgh, Scotland) 100th Centenary Symposium: Animal Flight: Integrating Aerodynamics with Biomechanics.
January 2022
Andy was an invited speaker at the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology's (Phoenix, AZ) Symposium: Causal Mechanisms of Interspecific Metabolic Scaling Patterns): What can mammalian terrestrial biomechanics tell us about metabolic scaling patterns?
September 2021
Congratulations to Kari Taylor-Burt who begins her appointment as an Assistant Professor of Biology at Mount Saint Mary's University in Pennsylvania.
Congratulations to L. Fahn-Lai, who successfully defended their PhD and is now working for the Department of Peace and Conflict Studies at Swarthmore College as their Communications and Creative Consultant.
January 2021
Having finished his postdoc in the de Bivort lab after completing his PhD at the CFS in the Combes lab, we wish James Crall and his family the very best as they move on to the University of Wisconsin, Madison where James begins his position as an Assistant Professor of entomology.
September 2020
Congratulations to Kari Taylor-Burt who successfully defended her PhD! We wish her and her family the very best as she returns to Pennsylvania to begin a postdoctoral fellowship at her alma mater, Franklin and Marshall College, with Professor Joe Thompson, where she will study the contractile biology of obliquely striated muscle of squid and other invertebrates.
Congratulations to Glenna Clifton who begins as an Assistant Professor of Biology at the University of Portland, settling in to life in Portland with her huskie pal, Luna.
May 2019
Brianna McHorse has successfully defended her PhD and we wish her the very best as she starts her new job in data science at Kayak!
Jake Peters and Mary Salcedo (former Combes lab grad students) have also successfully defended their PhD's this year and we wish them well in their new post-doc positions (Mary at VA Tech and Jake at Cornell).
Nicolai Konow, Asst. Professor UMass Lowell (Biological Science) and MCZ Associate was appointed as the convener of biomechanics for the Society of Experimental Biology (3-yr term).
January 2019
Brianna McHorse gave a SICB symposium talk in Tampa FL: “The evolution of a single toe in horses: causes, consequences, and the way forward.” (Brianna K. McHorse, Andrew A. Biewener, and Stephanie E. Pierce)