Ben Van Doren is a Marshall Scholar! Senior undergraduate Ben Van Doren has been selected as Cornell’s only Marshall Scholar, winning this very prestigious fellowship for post-graduate study at Oxford University where he will continue to study aspects of avian migration. Ben’s honors research in our lab includes his comparative…
Grad Student Ben Freeman, a member of our lab group who is advised by John Fitzpatrick, has a new paper out in American Naturalist entitled Competitive interactions upon secondary contact drive elevational divergence in tropical birds. The popular summary from the AmNat site: Why do related tropical montane birds live…
Postdocs David Toews and Scott Taylor gave a riveting hour-long, interactive presentation to the Lab of Ornithology board on the genomics of speciation in warblers. Despite the highly technical nature of their topic, they were able to explain their studies and findings in language that was totally accessible to this…
Our lab group was fantastically well represented in a series of 35 short but powerful presentations by undergraduates and graduate students at the Lab of Ornithology Fall board meeting, which was also part of the Lab’s celebration of its 100th birthday. Thanks and congratulations to everyone involved for doing such…
Congratulations to grad student Jake Berv for being awarded a Graduate Student Research Award from the Society of Systematic Biologists in support of Jake’s studies of the phylogeographic history of various Neotropical birds.