Graduate student Petra Deane just got the phone call from a program officer at the National Science Foundation: her Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant was ranked very highly and has been awarded full funding! Petra worked extremely hard on crafting a compelling proposal on genomic studies of adaptation and differentiation in…
Congratuations to Nick for garnering a substantial research grant from the Sustainable Biodiversity Fund of Cornell’s Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future to support his work on birds in the Imperial Valley of California.
No, just postdoc David Toews looking really excited about dropping off three lanes of warbler DNAs to the core genomics facility.
Scott is just back from leading a Cornell Adult University trip to Antarctica — and making all the rest of us jealous with his photos of leopard seals, albatrosses, penguins, icebergs, whales, and spectacular scenery!
First-year graduate student Stepfanie Aguillon has a new paper coming out in Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology: Aguillon, S.M. and R.A. Duckworth. 2015. Kin aggression and resource availability influence phenotype-dependent dispersal in a passerine bird. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. Abstract: Understanding the causes of dispersal is important as it strongly influences…