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Megan Brooks Zukowski Research Scholarship

Jacob Crawford

Doug Blackiston  Graduate Student Learning in Monarch butterflies

Liz Egitto Howard Hughes Scholar

Erin Wilson Research Assistant

Past researchers:

• Maya Moore
• John McClure (Howard Hughes Scholar)
• Melissa Conrad (Now in Mozambique with the Peace Corps!)
• Stephanie Hsia (Rice University)
• Beth Kilcline (Notre Dame)
• Gina Ramirez

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Senior Thesis Students: Past and Present

• Megan Brooks (2004)

Learning generalization in foraging paper wasps
• Jacob Crawford (2004)

Role of prey and host plant-associated volatiles in paper wasp learning
• Maya Moore (2003)

Innate color prefernece and learning abilities in Danaus plexippus in two behavioral contexts: foraging and oviposition
• Melissa Conrad (2002)

Wasp predation on sheltered larvae: the importance of visual and olfactory cues
• Genevieve Croft (2002) (co-sponsored with Eric Nagy, U. Va.)

Effects of local light environment on invertebrate herbivore damage for seedlings of three tree species
• Gina Ramirez (2002)

Color learning in three butterfly species
• Erin Wilson (2002)

Learning in paper wasps: Polistes dominulus and Polistes fuscatus overcome prey defenses
• Dhara Levers (2001)

Olfactory responses of Chrysoperla rufilabris (Chrysopidae) to frass and other odor sources from Epargyreus clarus (Hesperiidae)
• Ewa D. Halama (2000)

The energy cost of building shelters for silver-spotted skipper caterpillars
• Eric Lind (1998)

Good housekeeping: Shelter-building and frass ejection behaviors in larvae of Epargyreus clarus, the silver-spotted skipper (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae)

• Peter Renz (2000)

Ecoestrogens in health and disease
• Rachel Wiseman (2000)

Feeding preferences of the koala (Phacolarctus cinereus) for Eucalyptus: nutritional requirements and toxic compounds
• Kevin McGill (1999)

Stridulation in Leaf-Cutting Ants
• Elizabeth Lillis (1998)

Dynamic flowers: Ontogenetically variable floral communication mechanisms
• Neil Rellosa (1998)

Defining the Term Animal Language for the Study of Animal Communication Systems: Investigating the Possibility of Nonhuman Language

Master's Thesis Students

• Maryam Farzad (2000)

Floral color change in Viola cornuta L. (Violaceae): A model system to study regulation of anthocyanin production
• Meg Jones (1999)

Leaf shelter-building and frass ejection behavior in larvae of (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae), the silver-spotted skipper

PhD Thesis Students

• Maryam Farzad (2003)

The Color Purple: Anthocyanin biosynthesis in Viola cornuta cv Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, a color-changing flower

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