| Name | Advisor | Affiliation | Research |
|---|---|---|---|
| Raúl Araya Donoso | Dr. Kenro Kusumi | School of Life Sciences | Phenotypic divergence of Uta stansburiana on the Baja California Peninsula | Danny Jackson | Dr. Kevin McGraw | School of Life Sciences | Urban evolution in Arizonan cardinals |
| Name | Advisor | Affiliation | Research |
|---|---|---|---|
| Daniela Mera Rodriguez | Dr. Christian Rabeling | School of Life Sciences | Unraveling insect-biodiversity using leaf-cutting ants in the Acromyrmex octospinosus species complex as a model | Heidi Kitchel | Dr. Marianne Moore | College of Integrative Sciences and Arts | Quantifying the preference of Corynorhinus townsendii to hibernate in highly ventilated areas in Arizona caves | Sarah Handy | Dr. Lara Ferry | School of Life Sciences | Identifying environmental conditions that drive the transition between pump and ram ventilation in elasmobranchs |
| Name | Advisor | Affiliation | Research |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shannon Roivas | Dr. Ian Gilby | School of Human Evolution and Social Change | Energetics of food quality and distribution in female chimpanzees at Gombe | Jason Lacson | Dr. Kevin McGraw | School of Life Sciences | Iterative behavioral dynamics between sexes during hummingbird courtship | Amber Jaeger | Dr. Gary Schwartz | School of Human Evolution and Social Change | Assessing the facial growth and development of Australopithecus africanus after second molar eruption |
| Name | Advisor | Affiliation | Research |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alex Tunas Corzon | Dr. Anne Stone | School of Human Evolution and Social Change | The use of sedaDNA and aDNA as a tool to better understand the evolutionary and archaeological history of Eastern Pondoland (South Africa) | Joshua Van Bourg | Dr. Clive Wynne | Department of Psychology | Associative learning and short-term spatial memory in coyotes (Canis latrans) | Travor Fox | Dr. Jon Harrison | School of Life Sciences | Investigating urban aquatic infrastructure as a habitat for Zika-vector mosquitos in the Phoenix region | Jacob Youngblood | Dr. Michael Angilletta | School of Life Sciences | The integrative physiology of heat stress during insect development |
| Name | Advisor | Affiliation | Research |
|---|---|---|---|
| Angela Taravella | Dr. Melissa Wilson | School of Life Sciences | Human population history in north west Kenya | Emily Webb | Dr. Kevin McGraw | School of Life Sciences | Influence of life history on tissue carotenoid profiles in house finches (Haemorhous mexicanus) | Shelbi Peck | Dr. Paige Baluch | School of Life Sciences | The function of tyramine in the mouse ovary | Amalie Strange | Dr. Gro Amdam | School of Life Sciences | Stressing out the honeybee blood-brain barrier |
| Name | Advisor | Affiliation | Research |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ti Eriksson | Dr. Jay Taylor | School of Life Sciences | Comprehensive phylogeographic study of a desert-adapted ant | Aliya Hoff | Dr. Jane Buikstra | School of Human Evolution and Social Change | Life, death, and prosecution in antiquity: The people of the Phaleron Cemetery (Greece) | Peter Marting | Dr. Stephen Pratt | School of Life Sciences | Does resource availability influence colony personality in the Azteca-Cecropia mutualism? | Shelley Valle | Dr. Pierre Deviche | School of Life Sciences | The role of glucocorticoids in mediating the tradeoff between reproduction and self-maintenance in energy-limited male house finches |
| Name | Advisor | Affiliation | Research |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sarah Klassen | Dr. Ben Nelson | School of Human Evolution and Social Change | Mapping and Ground-Truthing Archaeological Features at Angkor, Cambodia | Nicholas Massimo | Dr. Jim Collins | School of Life Sciences | History of a Deadly Fungal Pathogen in Arizona | Steven Reed | Dr. Kevin McGraw | School of Life Sciences | Evolutionary Assessment of a Novel Type of Angle-Dependent Plumage Coloration in Parrots | Shelley Valle | Dr. Pierre Deviche | School of Life Sciences | Investigating the link between metabolism and reproduction in a seasonally-breeding songbird |
| Name | Advisor | Affiliation | Research |
|---|---|---|---|
| Megan Ellis | Dr. Corrie Whisner | School of Nutrition and Health Promotion | A comparison of nutrition knowledge and behaviors of low income pregnant adolescents and adults | Ti Eriksson | Dr. Juergen Gadau | School of Life Sciences | Ecological context of cooperation: how abiotic environment promotes joint founding among ant queens | Angel A. Garcia, Jr. | Dr. Steven Semken | School of Earth and Space Exploration | Ethnogeologic study in Puerto Rico | Genevieve Housman | Dr. Anne Stone | School of Human Evolution and Social Change | Assessment of DNA methylation patterns in primate skeletal tissues | Indira Saridewi Harahap | Dr. Jorge Reyes del Valle | School of Life Sciences | Immunogenic subviral particles displaying domain II of dengue 2 envelope protein vectored by measles virus | Emily Kleber | J. Ramón Arrowsmith | School of Earth and Space Exploration | Geomorphic evolution of Wheeler Ridge, California | Michelle Lipowicz | Dr. Antonio Garcia | School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering | Field testing of low cost, portable device to detect oil in ocean water |
| Name | Advisor | Affiliation | Research |
|---|---|---|---|
| Catherine Crinigan | Dr. Karen Sweazea | School of Nursing and Health Promotion | Effects of a short-term high-fat diet on kidney morphology and function in rats | Elizabeth Daly | Dr. Gary Schwartz | School of Human Evolution and Social Change | A test of the inhibitory cascade (IC) model on primate deciduous premolars | Sisi Gao | Dr. Pierre Deviche | School of Life Sciences | Are all disturbances equal? A study on how different urban disturbances affect a common urban bird | Genevieve Housman | Dr. Anne Stone | School of Human Evolution and Social Change | Epigenetics of baboon skeletal development | Sarah Klassen | Dr. Ben Nelson | School of Human Evolution and Social Change | The social-ecological cost of religiously mitigated water use and management at Angkor, Cambodia | Rachel Olzer | Dr. Ron Rutowski | School of Life Sciences | Male wing coloration properties may predict female fecundity in the pipevine swallowtail, Battus philenor | Brett Seymoure | Dr. Ron Rutowski | School of Life Sciences | Heliconius mimicry rings in a new light: light environment and signaling | Richard Simpson | Dr. Kevin McGraw | School of Life Sciences | The function of interactions between multiple visual signals in a hummingbird |
| Name | Advisor | Affiliation | Research |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nonso Emordi | Dr. Abigail York | School of Sustainability | Understanding energy poverty in resource-rich sub-Saharan African states: the case of Nigeria | Ti Eriksson | Dr. Juergen Gadau | School of Life Sciences | Multi-queen signature in colonies of the honey ant Myrmecocystus mendax - indicator of polygyny or intraspecific slavery? | Krista Eschbach | Dr. Michael Smith | School of Human Evolution and Social Change | Colonial Persistence and Transformation of Social and Economic Relations: Veracruz Port to Pensacola Presidios | Brian Haney | Dr. Jennifer Fewell | School of Life Sciences | Reproductive Characteristics of a Polygynous Harvester Ant Population | Maria Nieves-Colon | Dr. Anne Stone | School of Human Evolution and Social Change | Reconstructing the Peopling of Pre-Columbian Puerto Rico through Ancient DNA Analysis | Amy Shapiro | Dr. Kaye Reed | School of Human Evolution and Social Change | Macroecological patterns in the dietary niche breadth of Plio-Pleistocene African monkeys | Rick Simpson | Dr. Kevin McGraw | School of Life Sciences | The Effects of a Fluctuating Environment on Receiver Preferences for Multiple Signals | Shelley Valle | Dr. Pierre Deviche | School of Life Sciences | Effect of reproductive state on glial endfeet cytomorphology in the hypothalamus of a free-living songbird |
| Name | Advisor | Affiliation | Research |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stephanie Bittner | Dr. Pierre Deviche | School of Life Sciences | The hormonal control of parental care in a short-lived passerine | Kierstin Catlett | Dr. Gary Schwartz | School of Human Evolution and Social Change | A dental topographic analysis of deciduous tooth wear in hominoids | Penny Langhammer | Dr. James Collins | School of Life Sciences | Chytridiomycosis in a direct-developing frog: ontogenetic variation in susceptibility, pathogen transmission, and population-level impacts of the amphibian chytrid fungus in Eleutherodactylus coqui | Russell Ligon | Dr. Kevin McGraw | School of Life Sciences | Exploring the endocrine underpinnings of chameleon color change | Inbar Maayan | Dr. Kenro Kusumi | School of Life Sciences | Comparative appendicular osteology and evolutionary genetics of Panamanian anoles with divergent locomotor strategies | Brett Seymoure | Dr. Ronald Rutowski and Dr. Kevin McGraw | School of Life Sciences | Heliconius mimicry rings in a new light. | Sarah Striker | Dr. Ben Nelson | School of Human Evolution and Social Change | Migration and Iroquoian community membership | Kirsten Traynor | Dr. Robert Page | School of Life Sciences | Ovarian signaling: Do honey bee ovaries receive neurotransmitter signals? |
| Name | Advisor | Affiliation | Research |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michael Butler | Dr. Kevin McGraw | School of Life Sciences | Effect on develpmental versus adult diet on adult sexual coloration and immune function in mallard ducks | Ryan Forster | Dr. Peter Jurutka | ASU Division of Mathematical and Natural Sciences | 1,25-Dihydroxyvitamin D3 regulation of alpha-klotho and mediation of physiologic anti-aging actions | Sisi Gao | Dr. Pierre Deviche | School of Life Sciences | Novel neuroendocrine effects of stress on reproduction in free-ranging birds | Sharon Kessler | Dr. Leanne Nash | School of Human Evolution and Social Change | Modeling the origins of primate sociality: kin recognition in mouse lemurs | Sara Marsteller | Dr. Kelly Knudson | School of Human Evolution and Social Change | Reconstruction of prehistoric dietary practices in the Ychsma Society (c. AD 900-1470) of coastal Peru using stable carbon and nitrogen isotopes | Kimberly Pegram | Dr. Robert Page | School of Life Sciences | Ovarian signaling: Do honey bee ovaries receive neurotransmitter signals? |
| Name | Advisor | Affiliation | Research |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nicholas Banovich | Dr. Anne Stone | School of Human Evolution and Social Change | Genetic approaches to understanding cranial morphology: testing the correlation of the RUNX2 gene and facial morphology in primates | Laura Hurley | Dr. Pierre Deviche | School of Human Evolution and Social Change | Physiological and environmental regulation of territorial behavior in male Cassin's sparrows | Angela Huster | Dr. Michael E. Smith | School of Human Evolution and Social Change | Stylistic and technological variability of spindle whorls from Toluca Valley, Mexico | Joanna Malukiewicz | Dr. Anne Stone | School of Human Evolution and Social Change | Hybridization and speciation in common and black-tufted marmosets | Parth Rajyaguru | Dr. Ronald Rutowski | School of Life Sciences | Courtship behavior of pipevine swallowtail butterflies, Battus philenor. | William Schaffer | Dr. Brenda Baker | School of Human Evolution and Social Change | Tracing prehistoric Bahamian migration with mitochondrial DNA | Mason Scott Thompson | Dr. Jane Buikstra | School of Human Evolution and Social Change | Performance, power, and identities of the dead in the prehispanic American Southeast and Southwest | Andrea Torvinen | Dr. Ben Nelson | School of Human Evolution and Social Change | Intraregional social interaction through ceramic sourcing in prehispanic northwestern Mexico |
| Name | Advisor | Affiliation | Research |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scott Davies | Dr. Pierre Deviche | School of Life Sciences | An Avian model to study the ecological immunology of urbanization | Anne Barber | Dr. Thomas H. Nash III | School of Life Sciences | A study of the effects of an elevation gradient on saxicolous lichens of the Santa Catalina Mountains | Stephaie Meredith | Dr. Leanne Nash | School of Human Evolution and Social Change | Identifying sex-typical socialization in non-human primates | Meagan Rubel | Dr. Anne Stone | School of Human Evolution and Social Change | The Spitalfields Project: Ancient DNA analysis of human mtDNA and Mycobacterium tuberculosis from AD 1197-1857 | Lisa Taylor | Dr. Kevin McGraw | School of Life Sciences | Functions of bright male coloration in Habronattus pyrrithrix jumping spiders (Salticidae) |
