Animal Behavior Alumni Directory

Aiempichitkijkarn, Nalina: Ph.D. Fall 2023
Mentor(s): Brenda McCowan
Dissertation: Tuberculosis Infection in Free-Ranging Long-Tailed Macaques through Social Network and Modeling

Blonder, Aviva: Ph.D. Winter 2024
Mentor(s): Jeffrey Schank
Dissertation: An Agent-Based Simulation of Preferential Aggregation Based on Past Experience in Fission-Fusion Societies

Broadus, Lindsey: Ph.D. Summer 2022
Mentor(s): Maja Makagon
Dissertation: Investigating How Factors Experienced During Early Life Affect Adult Behavioral and Physiological Responses in Multiple Species of Anatidae

Creamer, Maggie: Ph.D. Winter 2024
Mentor(s): Kristina Horback
Dissertation: It?s All About the Climb: Consistent Individual Differences in Cattle Behavior and How they Relate to Grazing Distribution on Extensive Rangelands

Downey, Blair: Ph.D. Fall 2022
Mentor(s): Cassandra Tucker
Dissertation: Effects of Early Life Access to Hay on Dairy Cattle Behavior and Welfare

Farrar, Victoria: Ph.D. Spring 2022
Mentor(s): Rebecca Calisi
Dissertation: The Neuroendocrine Role of Prolactin in Life-History Tradeoffs and Transitions in a Biparental Bird

Gartland, Brandi: MS. Summer 2021
Mentor(s): Tom Hahn-Coombs

Hinton, Mitchell: Ph.D. Fall 2022
Mentor(s): John Eadie
Dissertation: Started From the Egg, Now We?re Here: Examining the Development of Consistent Individual Variation in Growth and Behavior of Captive-Reared, Precocial Wood Ducks (Aix sponsa)

Hubbard, Josephine: Ph.D. Fall 2023
Mentor(s): Brenda McCowan
Dissertation: Behavioral Flexibility and Cognitive Performance in Macaques

Lau, Allison: Ph.D. Spring 2023
Mentor(s): Karen Bales
Dissertation: Individuality drives signaling and perception in a pair-bonded primate

Lin, Kai-Yin: Ph.D. Winter 2021
Mentor(s): Jeffrey Schank
Dissertation: Ecological and Biological Constraints on the Evolution of Cooperation: An Agent-Based Modeling Approach

Loftus, Carter: Ph.D. Summer 2022
Mentor(s): Margaret Crofoot, Damien Caillaud
Dissertation: The Physiology, Behavioral Ecology, and Collective Dynamics of Sleep in Wild Olive Baboons (Papio anubis)

Logsdon, Ryane: Ph.D. Winter 2022
Mentor(s): Gail Patricelli
Dissertation: Behavioral Flexibility in a Variable World: The Influence of Social Environment and Habitat Structure on Greater Sage-Grouse Courtship and Communication

McInturf, Alexandra: Ph.D. Fall 2021
Mentor(s): AP Klimley, Nann Fangue, Damien Caillaud 
Dissertation: A Multi-scale Investigation of Fish Response to Environmental Change

Munson, Amelia: Ph.D. Summer 2021
Mentor(s): Andrew Sih
Dissertation: The Role of Recent and Developmental Experience in Shaping Behavioral Averages, Variations and Correlations

Ortiz, Chelsea: Ph.D. Summer 2023
Mentor(s): Andrew Sih
Dissertation: Fear, Fleeing, and Survival: Human impacts on ground squirrels in an urban-adjacent park

Postema, Elizabeth: Ph.D. Summer 2023
Mentor(s): Louie Yang
Dissertation: Integrating multiple pressures on antipredator color traits: a conceptual framework, with experimental evidence from swallowtail caterpillars (Papilionidae)

Pullin, Allison: Ph.D. Summer 2022
Mentor(s): Maja Makagon 
Dissertation: The Effect of Pullet Rearing Environments on the Spatial Abilities of Laying Hens

Reese, Sierra: MS. Summer 2023
Mentor(s): Nann Fangue; Anne Todgham

Stair, Tez: MS. Fall 2022
Mentor(s): John Eadie

Arbonies, Melanie Talavera: MS. Spring 2022
Mentor(s): Gail Patricelli

Vining, Alexander: Ph.D. Summer 2023
Mentor(s): Margaret Crofoot, Damien Caillaud

Zepeda, Emily: Ph.D. Spring 2023
Mentor(s): Andrew Sih
Dissertation: A Social-Ecological Approach to Understanding Human-Coyote Interactions in Cities