| Student Name |
ResearchInterest |
Professor |
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| Nicole Barker |
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| Micah Belew |
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| Richard Blatchford |
The behavior and welfare of commercially produced food animals, particularly poultry. Also, environmental enrichment of captive exotic bird species. |
Joy Mench |
| Kati Brazeal |
How endocrine and neuroendocrine cue-response mechanisms mediate life-history trade-offs; specifically, the trade-off between breeding and molt in birds |
Thomas Coombs-Hahn |
| Danielle Brown |
behavior of anteaters; telemetry; conservation applications of behavior in large mammals |
Thomas Coombs-Hahn |
| Rebecca (Becki) Brunelli |
Positive reinforcement training and enrichment to improve welfare in captive primates |
Brenda McCowan |
| Jamie Bunting |
Behavioral consequences of life history trade-offs in the field cricket. |
Ann Hedrick |
| Nicholas DiRienzo |
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| Sean Fogarty |
I am interested in the evolution of social strategies; why do individuals end up in the social situations they do, and what should they do once they get there? |
Andrew Sih |
| Daniel Gottlieb |
Abnormal behavior and welfare of captive primates |
Brenda McCowan |
| Allison Heagerty |
Primate social groups, specifically captive rhesus group management |
Brenda McCowan |
| Christopher Howerton |
Laboratory animal welfare; Automated measurement of behavior |
Joy Mench |
| Teresa Iglesias |
I study the cacophonous aggregative response that western scrub jays show to dead conspecifics and dead heterospecifics. |
Gail L. Patricelli |
| J. Patrick Kelley |
Predator-induced physiology and behavior in birds; Natural history of Neotropical birds; Comparative analyses of stress-tolerance and life-history variation |
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| Karen Kostan |
Evolution and development of interspecific communication |
Lynette A. Hart |
| Sarah Laredo |
The neural and hormonal bases of anti-predator behavior in the California ground squirrel. |
Donald Owings |
| Maja Makagon |
Animal welfare |
Joy Mench |
| Katherine McHugh |
social behavior and behavioral ecology of cetaceans, behavioral development, conservation and welfare applications of behavior |
Lynne Isbell |
| Whitney Meno |
Social behavior, social learning, development, antipredator behavior |
Richard Coss |
| Erin Mintline |
Play behavior and welfare of dairy calves. |
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| Jennifer Phillips |
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| Megan Phillips |
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| Jamilynn Poletto |
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| Ina Rommeck |
infant development, maternal style, welfare of captive primates |
Brenda McCowan |
| Elizabeth Schultz |
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| Nicole Sharpe |
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| Conor Taff |
I study the role of elaborate male signals in relation to mate choice and sexual selection in wild birds. |
Gail L. Patricelli |
| Vivek Thuppil |
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| Annie Valuska |
I study the factors mediating agonistic behavior in New Zealand White rabbits. |
Joy Mench |
| Kimberly VanderWaal |
Predation and foraging in African ungulates. |
Lynne Isbell |
| Jessica Yorzinski |
Sexual selection; predator-prey interactions |
Gail L. Patricelli |
| Maxine Zylberberg |
Animal behavior and disease ecology |
Thomas Coombs-Hahn |