News & outreach
Opossums in the news!
Ologies Podcast with Alie Ward (21 September 2021): Opossumology (O/POSSUMS) with Lisa Walsh
Science Friday (17 September 2021): Charismatic Creature Carnival - Who Rules the Night?
to know the land Podcast (12 April 2021): Lisa Walsh and Contemporary Range Expansion of the Virginia Opossum
Bayern 2 RadioWissen (10 September 2020): Beutelratten als Meister des Überlebenskampfs
Gizmodo (5 March 2019): Why do opossums love trash?
TVOntario (27 August, 2018): Creatures vs. climate: The Virginia opossum
The Wildlife Society (2 March, 2018): Farms and vanishing snow bring opossums north
Michigan News (8 February, 2018): Climate change, urbanization driving opossum's northward march
Outreach and education in the news!
The University Record (6 May 2020): Study considers ways to help international student teaching assistants
The University Record (16 January 2020): U-M scientists teach biodiversity using Museum of Zoology specimens
University of Michigan EEB Dept. (14 March, 2019): EEB holds town hall on student mental health
University of Michigan Ecology & Evolutionary Biology (27 November, 2017): Museum mammal specimens “sign up” for Intro Bio
Museum outreach
Please contact me at llwalsh@umich.edu if you have questions related to specimen-based outreach, digital data research in the classroom, or museum exhibits and programs!
Consulted for the University of Michigan Museum of Natural History to design a new exhibit on "People and the Planet: Biodiversity". How do we impact biodiversity, and how does biodiversity impact us, with an emphasis on local issues like Michigan-famous blueberries!
Consulted with COSI live collections manager to develop information to share with guests visiting their newly acquired education opossum
With the help of 826Michigan!, I introduced 3rd grade students to scientific inquiry and writing via mammal museum specimens including a fox and beaver
