NSF: Mikel Delgado’s DDIG

Funded!  Mikel Delgado’s proposal entitled, “The Consequences of Food Assessment and Cache Placement on Social Competition and Cache Pilfering in a Scatter Hoarding Tree Squirrel” ($20,390), start date July 1, 2015. Congratulations,...

CO3 2016

Mikel Delgado presented her new data on squirrel caching decisions: Delgado, M., & Jacobs, L. (2015, April). Where to bury a nut? Tree squirrel principles for cache organization. Presented at the 22nd Annual International Conference on Comparative Cognition,...

NSF: Judy Jinn goes to Norway

 Funded by a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Opportunities Worldwide Award, Judy Jinn travels to Norway for the 2015 fall semester to study with Prof. Jarl Giske and his group of theoretical biologists at the University of Bergen. Judy will be learning...

“The Where, the Why and the How”

In December 2012, Mikel and Lucia published three of the 75 essays in a 2012 book that represents a collaboration between artists and scientists: “The Where, the Why and the How: 75 Artists Illustrate Wondrous Mysteries of the Universe”: why pigeons bob their heads...

Dorkbot

Lucia, Jennifer Arter, Mikel Delgado, Judy Jinn, Tom Libby, Nate Hunt and Aaron Teixeira – win a position as the Squirrel Team in the inaugural Minerva Foundation Stochastic Lab residencies (http://stochasticlabs.org/) Brainstorming on squirrelly projects for...

Judy Jinn: SICB student competition

 Judy Jinn is a finalist in the competition for best student talk at the January 2015 Society for Integrative Biology in West Palm Beach, Florida, January. http://www.sicb.org/meetings/2015/ Jinn, J., Nirody, J., Jusufi, A., Jacobs, L. F., & Full, R. J. (2015)....