EDUCATION
M.S. Thesis Candidate Biological Sciences, Illinois State University, Normal, IL GPA: 4.0/4.0
B.S. (Honors) 2000 Biological Sciences, Illinois State University, Normal, IL GPA: 3.59/4.0
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Predator-prey interactions, antipredatory responses, cannibalism, mating behavior, and ecology and conservation of reptiles and amphibians
GRANTS
2003 Sigma Xi Grants-in-Aid Research Award. Potential schooling in tadpoles of the African clawed frogs Xenopus laevis and Silurana
tropicalis. ($628)
2003 R. D. Weigel Phi Sigma Research Grant, Illinois State University. Effects of cannibalism on tadpoles of the African clawed frog,
Xenopus laevis. ($140)
2002 Graduate Student Association Research and Professional Advancement Grant, Illinois State University. Predation rates of an aposematic
frog (Dendrobates pumilio) versus a cryptic frog (Eleutherodactylus bransfordii). ($125)
2002 R. D. Weigel Phi Sigma Research Grant, Illinois State University. Aggregation behavior in tadpoles of Xenopus laevis and Silurana
tropicalis. ($430)
2001 Graduate Student Association Research and Professional Advancement Grant, Illinois State University. Potential schooling behavior in
tadpoles of Xenopus laevis and Silurana tropicalis. ($125).
2001 Donald F. McHenry Fellowship, Illinois State University. Ecology and behavior of tadpoles of the African clawed frogs, Xenopus laevis
and Silurana tropicalis ($6,000)
1999 Minority Professional Development Grant, Illinois State University. Mating behavior in the lubber grasshopper Romalea microptera. ($375)
1999 Marie Jessa Award, Illinois State University. Mating behavior in the lubber grasshopper Romalea microptera. ($500)
SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS
2000 Graduate Minority Tuition Waiver, Illinois State University ($315.75)
1996-2000 Presidential Scholarship, Illinois State University ($15,000)
1996 Boatmen's Bank Scholarship, Boatmen’s Bank ($500)
TEACHING POSITIONS
Instructor:
Anatomy and Physiology II Lab (Spring 2003, Fall 2003; ISU)
Teaching Assistant:
Costa Rican Rainforest Ecology (Fall 2002; ISU)
Ecology (Fall 2002; ISU)
Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy (Spring 2001, Spring 2002; ISU)
Biology of Lower Vertebrates (Fall 2001; ISU)
Biological Diversity (Fall 2000, Spring 2001 Fall 1999-undergraduate; ISU)
RESEARCH & MUSEUM POSITIONS
2001-2002 Research Assistant, Illinois Nature Conservancy and Illinois State University.
Performed water chemistry on tributaries of the Mackinaw River in central Illinois, and surveyed the streams for fish and
invertebrates as part of a project to restore the headwater streams of the Mackinaw River.
1999-2000 CRUI Undergraduate Research Fellow, Illinois State University.
Examined the sexual biology of the Eastern lubber grasshopper, Romalea microptera in the field and laboratory.
1999-2000 Internship, Miller Park Zoo, Bloomington, Illinois.
Learned the husbandry and made behavioral observations of small mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians at the zoo.
2001-2002 Illinois State University Museum, Illinois State University. 2001-2002.
Maintenance of the fish, reptile, and amphibian museum and teaching collections.
PRESENTATIONS
2003 Behavior, Evolution, Ecology, and Systematics Brown Bag seminar series, Illinois State University. The effects of cannibalism
on behavior, growth, and development of tadpoles of Xenopus laevis.
2003 Illinois State Academy of Sciences Annual Meeting, Normal, IL. Age of sexual receptivity in the lubber grasshopper, Romalea
microptera.
2003 Graduate Research Symposium, Illinois State University. Age of sexual receptivity in the lubber grasshopper, Romalea microptera.
2003 Phi Sigma Biological Research Symposium, Illinois State University. Age of sexual receptivity in the lubber grasshopper, Romalea
microptera.
2002 Graduate Research Symposium, Illinois State University. Restoration of agriculturally impacted streams: stream monitoring and
comparison to non-impacted streams.
2002 Phi Sigma Biological Research Symposium, Illinois State University. Restoration of agriculturally impacted streams: stream monitoring
and comparison to non-impacted streams.
2000 Undergraduate Research Symposium, Illinois State University. Mating behavior in the lubber grasshopper, Romalea microptera.
1999 Entomological Society of America Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA. Mating behavior in the lubber grasshopper, Romalea microptera.
1999 Phi Sigma Biological Research Symposium, Illinois State University. Mating behavior in the lubber grasshopper, Romalea microptera.
PUBLICATIONS
Lee, M. H. 2003. Geographic Distribution. Apalone spinifera. Herpetological Review 34: 260.
In preparation:
Lee, M. H. and Whitman, D. W. Gonadal development and age of sexual receptivity in the lubber grasshopper, Romalea microptera.
Intended for: Journal of Orthopteran Research
Lee, M. H. and Whitman, D. W. Precopulatory behavior in the male Eastern lubber grasshopper, Romalea microptera.
Intended for: Journal of Orthopteran Research
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Ecological Society of America
Illinois State Academy of Science
Herpetologists’ League
American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists
Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles
Chelonian Conservationists and Biologists
Partners in Amphibian and Reptile Conservation
Phi Beta Delta International Scholar Society
Alpha Lambda Delta National Honors Society
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