Assistant Professor Creagh Breuner recently obtained a 5-year CAREER grant from the National Science Foundation.  CAREER awards are the NSF's most prestigious awards for early-career scientists.  Dr. Breuner’s project focuses on understanding mechanisms of variation in stress endocrinology in free-living birds.  The focal species is the white-crowned sparrow, which Breuner has worked on in the Sierra Nevada Mountains near Yosemite for more than 10 years.  More info.

Vanessa Ezenwa—an assistant professor in the Division—recently obtained a 5-year CAREER grant from the National Science Foundation.  CAREER awards are the NSF's most prestigious awards for early-career scientists.  Dr. Ezenwa’s project focuses on understanding how parasites shape animal behavior.  Her work will be carried out in Africa on Grant’s gazelles, a species in which dominant males defend territories and subordinate males join roving bachelor herds. A key question of the work is whether parasites drive variation in mating tactics by influencing individual mating decisions, behavior and mating success. &nb...more