December 2004

Dana Seaman is now Dana Acevedo Seaman

Dana Seaman and Ernesto Acevedo Ubarte were married on December 28, 2004, on the Correcamino Ranch outside of Clayton, New Mexico. Congratulations!!

November 2004

Kevin Oh receives the Graduate & Professional Student Council Travel Grant

Kevin Oh received a Grant from Graduate and Professional Student Travel Fund to attend conferences this winter.

October 2004

Dana Seaman is promoted to Research Specialist by the department

Dana Seaman was promoted by the University to Research Specialist. It is her second promotion in the last twelve months.

September 2004

Lab presented 13 (!) papers at the national/international meetings this summer

Becca Young: two talks (including a symposium talk) at the International Congress of Vertebtate Morphology, the Society for the Study of Evolution, and the Society for Integrative Biology; Kevin Oh: Society for the Study of Evolution and American Ornithologists' Union; Alex Badyaev: International Avian Endocrinology Congress, Intenational Congress of Vertebrate Morphology, Society for the Study of Evolution, and American Ornithologists' Union. Some summer...

May-August 2004

Terri Hamstra, Jerod Merkle, & Susanne Hinrichs join the lab

Terri is conducting her Masters' Thesis on the effects of ectoparasites on growth and mortality of nestlings and the evolution of bird defenses. Susanne is researching differential allocation in relation to sexual selection and is generally interested in evolution of animal communication. Jerod is interested in the evolution and ecology of paternal care and investigates the evolution of indicators of parental performance in birds.

May 2004

Becca Young receives GPSC Grant

Becca Young received a $500 Grant from Graduate and Professional Student Travel Fund to attend conferences this summer.

May 2004

Rosetta Mui receives UK Research Council and Cardiff University Fellowship

Rosetta Mui, 2003 EEB Outstanding Senior, has been awarded UK Research Council Foreign Scholar Award of £22,500 to conduct her doctoral research in avian biology at Cardiff University.

April 2004

Kevin Oh receives Silliman Award for Ornithological Research

Kevin Oh has been awarded the Silliman Research Award ($400) to conduct his research on the sexual selection and the evolution of genetic complemenarity.

April 2004

Renee Duckworth wins NSF DDIG Award

Renee Duckworth receives NSF Dissertation Improvement Award of $10,000 to continue her studies of life history evolution in coexisting bluebird species.

April 2004

Kate Soetaert receives a M.Sc graduate assistantship in UAF

Kate Soetaert has been accepted into a graduate program at the University of Alaska-Fairbanks and will start her studies in May 2004.

February 2004

Becca Young receives NSF Predoctoral Fellowship's Honorable Mention

Becca Young receives Honorable Mention from the NSF Predoctoral Fellowships Program for her proposed work on evolution of morphological integration mammals.

February 2004

Kevin Oh receives NSF Predoctoral Fellowship's Honorable Mention

Kevin Oh receives Honorable Mention from the NSF Predoctoral Fellowships Program for his proposed research on evolution of genetic complementarity in birds.

February 2004

Renee Duckworth receives two research grants: Animal Behavior Society and American Museum of Natural History

Renee Duckworth has been awarded research grants from the American Museum of Natural History ($1,700) and Animal Behavior Society ($500) to conduct her studies on the evolution of life histories in coexisting species of Sialia bluebirds.

January 2004

Joanna Hubbard is named the Undergraduate Science Ambassador for the College of Science

Joanna Hubbard was nominated a Science Ambassador for the College of Science. She was awarded this title and will serve until her graduation in May 2004.

December 2003

Rosetta Mui is awarded the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department's Outstanding Senior Award!!

Rosetta Mui was awarded EEB Outstanding Senior Award at the Winter Commencement. She received her degree in a record 2.5 years.