An article about a College seminar I teach.
STAT - Effective use of ethograms in research.
Gizmodo - How do animals recognize each other?
In 2015 I had the pleasure of hosting Girl Scout Troop #20164 at the Institute. They were working on their 'Animal Helpers' badge, and one of the requirements was to talk with an animal behavior expert. It was a great two hours of discussion! Some girls were sick but the troop leader said those in attendance remembered my presentation and did a good re-enactment for them.
I brought my Girl Scout sash with badges to show them one from MANY years ago, and asked to see their badge when they got it. Just received a picture a few days ago of Sophie and Maxine wearing their vests. The Animal Helper badge is the diamond shaped one n the bottom of their vest - a red cross with a paw. Well done, young ladies!
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The National Science Foundation recently celebrated 60 years of its
Graduate Research Fellowship Program.
Since 1952, NSF has funded more than 46,500 graduate research fellowships out of more than 500,000 applicants. Fellows receive an annual stipend, opportunities for international research and professional development, and have the freedom to conduct their own research at any accredited U.S. institution of graduate research they choose.
They highlighted one awardee from each year, and I was the one from 1989!
Heather Coffin's MS work on penguin kin recognition. Ground-breaking work revealing how birds DO use odors to discriminate among relatives!!
University of Chicago press release
Reuters
Science News
Toronto Star
WTTW (Chicago Public Television; video)
Riverside-Brookfield Landmark (our local paper, near the zoo where the work was done)
Audubon Magazine
My Darwin Keynote "Women in Science" Lecture at Indiana State University, March 2011
Jason Bruck's research on dolphin social memory at Texas State Aquarium
KIII.tv
KRIS TV
The University of Chicago Magazine, February 2006
Beyond the Beagle:
Evolutionary Approaches to the Study of Social Behavior A symposium I organized for the 2009 AAAS meeting in Chicago honoring Darwin's 200th birthday and 150th anniversary of On the Origin of Species
Hibernation and the armpit effect in ground squirrels
Science News
Inverted-U shape relationship between cortisol and learning in ground squirrels
The University of Chicago News Office
Science Daily
Biochemistry News
Discovery Channel Magazine
Rats assess degree of relatedness from human odors (Erin Ables, Leslie Kay and myself)
Nature's Michael Hopkin's Blog from the Animal Behavior Society Meeting, 2006
Nature and representation of individual recognition in ground squirrels
The New York Times' Science Times or here
Discovery Magazine
Chicago Sun-Times
Daily Kos
Functions and mechanisms of kin-recognition abilities in
Belding's ground squirrels
Science
News
Science
Now
APA
Monitor
Wired
Online Magazine
National Geographic for Kids, scheduled for Dec 2002
Canadian Broadcast Company
National Wildlife Magazine, Aug/Sept 2002
Canadian Wildlife Magazine, forthcoming
Discover Magazine, July 2002
BBC Wildlife Magazine, June 2002
The Scientist, April 29, 2002
Healthy Wire
Kansas City Channel
Queen's University Journal
Self-referent phenotype matching - the "armpit effect" - in golden
hamsters
(Photo courtesy of Cornell University News Office)
Science Times of the New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/featured_articles/20000502tuesday.html
ABC News
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DailyNews/armpits000406.html
BBC News Online
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/708152.stm
Cornell University News Office Press Release
http://www.news.cornell.edu/releases/April00/armpit_effect.hrs.html
Mono Lake Basin research
http://www.monobasinresearch.org/research/squirrels.htm
Other links to my research
In Science News - Even in the 21st century, there's still room for old-fashioned, do-it-yourself ingenuity in experimental design for studying animal behavior
In American Scientist - The armpit of the avian world
Science News
BBC's "The Life of Mammals" - see "The Chiselers" episode
(I even have an IMDB entry for it!!)
Animal Behavior, by John Alcock
Becoming a Tiger : How Baby Animals Learn to Live in the Wild
The Best American Science Writing 2004
Comment on ground squirrel hunting
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