Dr. Lu. We are so proud of you. The first PhD student in the lab to graduate is a big milestone, but either way we are so happy to for you and all that you have accomplished during your time here at OSU. To brag on him a bit, Luberson came in to the lab with a MS degree and quickly found his feet working out in the field on a project looking at the diversity in hearing across wild rodent species. This lab started as a bit of a side project during the pandemic while we were waiting to get some other things off the ground. Lu quickly learned how to trap animals, perform auditory brainstem response recordings to get their hearing physiology, and he fit right in with everyone in the lab, always brining joy wherever he goes.

Lu has presented at many different conferences at this point, everything from the Association for Research in Mammalogy, Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, Animal Behavior, and a personal favorite of the lab, the Association for Research in Otolaryngology. He also has a very impressive publication record with four papers (Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Journal of Anatomy, PLoSOne, Journal of Mammalogy) already (three first author) and one under review. I know he has plans to submit at least two more from his work in the McCullagh lab. Check out his Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Amk_JnsAAAAJ&hl=en

Where is Lu off to next? He is going to go do a postdoc with Dr. Brad Winters at NEOMED where he hopes to add some in vitro physiology to his already impressive repertoire of lab skills. Best of luck Luberson, you will always be a member of this lab.