EDUCATION

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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Ph.D. Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior

August 2018 -  May 2023

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University of Dayton

B.S. Biology summa cum laude with Honors

August 2015 - May 2018

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FUNDING (total amount: $93,754.40)

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Fellowships

Supplemental Summer Block Grant ($4,166) - May 2020

Illinois Distinguished Fellowship ($75,000) - March 2018

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Awards

Isabel Norton Award ($1,000) - April 2022

Isabel Norton Award ($1,000) - April 2021

Odum-Kendeigh Summer Research Award ($1,000) - April 2021

Graduate College Conference Award ($100) - December 2020

Francis M and Harlie M Clark Research Support Grant ($1000) - April 2020

Graduate College Dissertation Travel Grant ($4,888.40) - April 2020

American Ornithological Society Research Grant ($2,500) - April 2019

Champaign County Audubon Society Kendeigh Grant ($1,000) - April 2019

Francis M and Harlie M Clark Research Support Grant ($1,000) - April 2019

Philip W. Smith Memorial Fund Award ($1000) - April 2019

American Ornithology Society Membership - January 2019

 

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TEACHING AWARDS

Teaching Excellence Award - FA & SP 2019-2020

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Intro to Organismal and Evolutionary Biology (IB150) Fall 2019

Ornithology (IB461) Spring 2020

Intro to Organismal and Evolutionary Biology (IB150) Head TA Fall 2022

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RECENT PRESENTATIONS

 

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International Society for Behavioral Ecology (ISBE) Jul 2022

TALK: Host parents respond to parasitic nestling alarm calls regardless of experience with brood parasitism

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23rd Annual Graduate Student Symposium (GEEB) Feb 2021

TALK: Impact of heterospecific and conspecific brood parasitism on host fledging dynamics

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Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB) Jan 2021

TALK: Heterospecific but not conspecific parasitism delays fledging in host prothonotary warblers

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Sensorium - October 2019

POSTER: The evolution of conspecific acceptance threshold models

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Animal Behavior Society (ABS) International Conference - July 2019

TALK: Mimicry-dependent lateralization in the visual inspection of foreign eggs by American robins

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Animal Behavior Conference, Bloomington IN - March 2019

POSTER: The effect of avian brood parasitism on physiological responses of host nestlings

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