Tropical Ecology, F19 – S20: Costa Rica
Plans are shaping up for our Field Ecology & Evolution course sequence for the next academic year. The sequence will start with a 2-credit lecture course in F19 that will… Read more »
Author Archives: Bob Curry
Mendel Science Experience Post-doctoral Fellow
Exciting! I was just approved by Villanova’s College of Liberal Arts & Sciences to hire a MSEPF. This postdoctoral fellow position will start in August 2019 and continue for 2… Read more »
Bird ringing in Greece: volunteering with the Antikythira Bird Observatory
by Rebecca Garlinger (@RD_Garlinger) and Holly Garrod (@hmg_ornithology) After finishing up our Masters coursework in spring 2018 and our respective field seasons in summer 2018, we had an amazing opportunity… Read more »
My 1st scientific conference, Junior year
by Taylor Heuermann (CLAS ’19, MS ’20, Biology) Thanks to travel funding I received from Villanova’s Center for Undergraduate Research, I was able to attend the Society for Integrative &… Read more »
Villanova first-year match opportunity
The undergraduate research folks at Villanova’s Center for Research and Fellowships (CRF) recently selected my lab as one of those offering a university-supported position for a first-year student interested in getting… Read more »
Hybridization and song learning in chickadees: the latest word
by Katherine Monroe (CLAS ’18, Biology), May 2017 A fascinating aspect of climate change that has received relatively little attention is the impact of changing environments on species interaction. Climate… Read more »
Shifting Hybrid Zones: Behavior, Climate, or Both?
by Alyssa Kist (CLAS ’18, Biology), May 2017 Because we study hybridization in chickadees, the Curry Lab is always searching for current research that relates to our own program. In… Read more »
Chickadee nesting underway!
Our most advanced pair (both Carolina Chickadees) laid their first egg on 15 April … one day earlier than last year, in the same artificial nest snag. Many other pairs getting… Read more »
Costa Rica Field Ecology & Evolution, F17-S18
Plans are shaping up for the next offering of Bio 4451/2 and Bio 8940/1 … including a 2-week field trip in January 2018 to Costa Rica. The course will introduce students… Read more »
Funding progress for tody study
Holly Garrod has received a grant from BirdCaribbean in support of her project on todies in the Dominican Republic! Read more about this element of her work here.