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Kevin Smith, from left, Heather Akin, Eileen Hebets, Emma Brase, and Michael Dodd pose for a portrait inside Hebets’ lab in Manter Hall. The group recently was published in Frontiers in Arachnid Science for their research on human visual attention having a general avoidance of spider images but a bias toward spider-specific features. February 23, 2026. Photo by Jordan Opp / University Communication and Marketing.