The salamander king
Monday, December 24, 2012 - 07:30
in Paleontology & Archaeology
When assistant professor of biology James Monaghan was an undergraduate, he hung a life-size inflatable Spiderman from the ceiling of his dorm room. The plastic incarnation of the superhero followed him all the way to his new lab here at Northeastern. His obsession with the "genius kid-scientist" earned Monaghan the nickname "Spiderman," and it stuck until graduate school, where he found a new obsession: salamanders.