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Busy week! Congratulations to Ari Rice ( @AriBirdman ) for received GRFP Honorable Mention from NSF! Congratulations to Caraline Gammons ( @CaralineNova ) and Lily Day for receiving Villanova Undergraduate… Read more »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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.

Author: Taylor Heuermann (undergraduate member of the lab), Dec. 2016 Something within the study of animal behavior that I find fascinating is the interplay between genetics and environment to create… Read more »

Update: our project proposal via Experiment.com was successful! Thanks so much to everyone who pledged as a backer. Today we launched a project, as part of a “Challenge Grant,” via… Read more »