The Cornell undergraduate contingent continued a tradition of performing impressively at this year’s AOS conference. Among the highlights was the crushing victory of the 2/3 Cornell undergraduate team (plus one undergrad from that four-letter-word-staring-with-Y Ivy…guess they know a bit about birds over in New Haven) in the venerable quiz bowl…
A host of people affiliated with our group were voted in as Elected Members of the American Ornithology Society this year. Warmest of congratulations (!!!) to our current Lab of Ornithology colleagues Nick Mason, Emma Greig, Leo Campagna, and Karan Odom, and similarly to Chris Balakrishnan, Karl Berg, Sarah Kaiser,…
Warmest of congratulations to all of the 2017 Cornell graduates — we’ve known so many of you, and shared some amazing adventures in the classroom, laboratory, and at far-flung places around the globe. Andrew and Sarah: we love the caps!!!!
Congratulations to alumna Hope Batcheller for getting her undergraduate honors thesis all the way through to publication! Hope’s project on interspecific communication among ant-following birds in lowland Amazonia started with a semester-long directed reading seminar class on the existing research about ant-following birds, when then led Hope to design field…
Grad student Natalie Hofmeister and former lab member Dustin Rubenstein just published a new paper in Ecology Letters on adaptation to environmental variability in African starlings. Natalie and Dustin show that variability in the environment of African starlings influences patterns of substitution in the glucocorticoid receptor, which allows organisms to…
Warmest of best wishes to lab alumna Vale Ferretti (who got her PhD in our lab a few years back) and her husband Ariel on the birth of their son Faustino! His birthday was August 13th and he came into the world at 2.494 kg (you can tell by the…
Natalie Hoffmeister on starling evo-ecology: PhD student Natalie Hoffmeister gave a professional and polished talk today at the NAOC on how endocrine receptors vary genetically in response to selection resulting from environmental variation. Hard stuff to describe to a general audience of ornithologists who aren’t specialists in either of these…
Congrats to two lab group alumni: two students whom we knew through all four years of their Cornell experience are heading off to work on birds via their new PhD programs in the Fall. Kathryn Grabenstein will be at the University of Colorado in the lab of our own Dr.…
Congratulations to Dustin Rubenstein, who was just awarded tenure at Columbia University! Dustin is one our our group’s longest-term colleagues and alumni, dating to his PhD years here at Cornell when we worked together on starling evolution, the Kenya field course, and much more. Here is a throw-back photo of…
Congratulations to alumnae Marjorie Weber (at right) and (again to) Katie Wagner (at left)! These two past members of our greater lab group are the recipients of the two awards for exceptional early career contributions being given this week at the joint conference in Guarujá, Brazil: Marjorie is this year’s…
Katie Wagner wins the Dobzhansky Prize! Warmest of congratulations to lab group alumna Dr. Katie Wagner for being recognized at the highest level by her community of scientific colleagues. The Theodosius Dobzhansky Prize is awarded annually by the Society for the Study of Evolution “to recognize the accomplishments and future…
This has been a very, very good day for three of our lab alumni: PhD alumnus Dan Rabosky, now an assistant professor at Michigan, has been named one of this year’s 18 Packard Fellows, a truly significant (and well deserved) honor! More information here. Undergrad alumni Mike Harvey and Glenn…
Congratulations to new alumna Camille Shaw ’14 on her new research tech position in the Delgutte Lab at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary.