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Since 1991, the Center for the Integrative Study of Animal Behavior has provided training for //undergraduate summer interns (made possible through the support of the National Science Foundation). Below are the names of CISAB's REU alumni since 2002. Click on their names to read individual REU intern abstracts. REU alumni information from 2001 and before can be found in our archive files.

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REU Alumni:   2007   2006   2005   2004   2003   2002   ARCHIVES  


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JULIANA BELEN UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO-MAYAGUEZ CAMPUS "Role of DHEA in mediating seasonal aggression in male Siberian Hamsters (Phodopus sungorus)"
SHAWNA BUERKLE NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY "Sexual asymmetry in Sceloporus graciosus visual performance"
LAUREN BRIERLEYHOPE COLLEGE"Are ape limb proportions adaptations for physical aggression or arboreality?"
STEPHEN CHANG UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN "The effects of cocaine-related cues on triggering relapse and activating doral prefrontal cortex"
KATHY DANIELS NEW CASTLE HIGH SCHOOL TEACHER "Evolution--Convergence, divergence and adaptation lessons developed to teach evolution and ecology to middle and high school students"
MARGARET DONAHUE ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY" Voltammetric study of the effects of autoreceptor activation on serotonin in the inferior colliculus of mice"
VICTORIA FLORES BROWN UNIVERSITY " Injury response of the pacemaker nucleus after spinal cord transection in Apteronotus leptorhynchus"
MELISSA GREULICH UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN " Vegetation and water condition effects on zebrafish Danio rerio behavior"
JANELL HARRO ILLINOIS WESEYLAN UNIVERSITY" The effects of a context shift on chronically restrained animals tested in an instrumental appetitive-to-aversive transfer task"
LAUREN HAROLD TUSKEGEE UNIVERSITY" How many injections of nicotine can a rat anticipate in one day?"
ANDRES MORERA INDIANA UNIVERISTY " Voltage gated potassium channel expression in response to spinal cord injury in the electromotor system of Apteronotus leptorhynchus"

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RACHEL ANDREWS PURDUE UNIVERSITY "Behavior-related changes in dopamine and ascorbate release"
ADOLFO (LEO) ARELLANOS HUNTER COLLEGE "Investigations of learning and memory in an animal model of autism"
MIRELA CONWAYUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS-AMHERST "The effects of light intensity on motion perception in the Eastern fence Lizard, (Sceloporus undulatus) and Southern Sagebrush Lizard, (S. graciosus)"
ERICA DAVIS ALABAMA A & M UNIVERSITY "The reproductive behavior displays of male Sceloporus toward females"
MAKSYMILIAN (MAKS) DERYL DOMINACAN UNIVERSITY "Electrocommunication signal repertoire in Parapteronotus hasemani"
SHANNON FREDEBAUGH OHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY "Possible influences of positive scent stimuli on the behavior of captive polar bears (Ursus maritimus)"
LAKEISHA HALL ALBRIGHT COLLEGE "Seasonal changes in immunity track changes in energetics and not reproduction in female Siberian hamsters (Phodopus sungorus)"
CHANIN MILLER TUSKEGEE UNIVERSITY "Odor preference in huddling by rat pups: Comparison between the metabolic consequences of huddling and the sensation of localized warmth as an inducer of odor-guided huddling"
MICHAEL PEACE NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY "Repeatability in guppy inspection behavior, alone and in groups"
INDIA SWEARINGEN LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY "Cue competition and integration in a blocking procedure in the water maze as a function of beacon type and whether it was switched between Stage 1 and Stage 2 of training"

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AWILDA ACARON UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS, AMHERST "Effects of social environment on boldness behavior in wild zebrafish"
AITALOHI AMAIZE PRINCETON UNIVERSITY "Serotonin projections to the inferior colliculus: A retrograde tracing analysis of raphe nuclei in mice"
JACKELINE ANDERSON BAYLOR UNIVERSITY "Thermal environment influences morphology of developing Norway rats"
STEFANIE M. BAUR UNIVERSITY OF EVANSVILLE "Effects of chronic stress on water maze performance in rats"
ANDREW GARST NEW MEXICO HIGHLANDS UNIVERSITY "Energy allocation and sickness behavior in Siberian hamsters"
DERRICK PARKER LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY "Does 1+1 really equal 2? Genotypic and phenotypic interactions in expressed social behavior of Poecilia reticulata"
NATASHA PETTIFOR NEW COLLEGE OF FLORIDA "Mobile versus stationary viewpoints affect blocking and facilitation between beacon and landmark learning in the floor maze"
SARA SANFORD RIPON COLLEGE "Effects of 5-alpha dihydrotestosterone on the frequency modulation and duration of chirping behavior in Apteronotus albifrons"
ANAND SHAH INDIANA UNIVERSITY "Electrophysiological evaluation of mice knocked-in with 140 CAG repeats"
C. BRIAN SMITH PACIFIC UNIVERSITY "Song-sharing in lizards?: An exploration of display type-matching using a robotic lizard"
ELIZABETH WHEAT OBERLIN COLLEGE "An assessment of classical eyeblink conditioning in rats using a tone and light CS and three interstimulus intervals"

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ALLISON E. BOYD MCDANIEL COLLEGE
AMANDA M. BESSLER INDIANA UNIVERSITY
NATALIA JACHODEUNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA
JEFFREY A. JACKSON MUSKINGUM COLLEGE
MARQUITA W. LEWIS UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT WILMINGTON
EILLEN J. RODRIGUEZ UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO AT CAYEY
JESSICA L. RODRIGUEZ INDIANA UNIVERITY
BRANDON RUSH PACE UNIVERSITY
JENNA E. SCHUSTER WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY
DELIA S. SHELTON UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS AT DENTON
ROBIN W. WHITE TEXAS LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY

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SHAUNAK K. DEEPAK HARVARD UNIVERSITY
STEPHANIE L. FRANK LOYOLA MAYMOUNT UNIVERSITY
JEAN-CHARLES GASPARD BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY
TRACIE M. GREEN FAYETTEVILLE STATE UNIVERSITY
GREGORY A. JONAS THE COLLEGE OF ST. SCHOLASTICA
VALENI M. JONES UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI
JASMINE L. LOVELAND HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE
JULIA E. MEYERS MACALESTER COLLEGE
CHRISTI J. NIEVES UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO
ELYSIA A. POOR INDIANA UNIVERSITY- BLOOMINGTON
LONICA B. SOLOMON OBERLIN COLLEGE

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MARION A. ALSTON Morgan State University
VIRGINIA CORYELL Indiana University-Bloomington
JORGE CRUZ-MARTIN University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras
JESSICA HENRY Indiana University-Bloomington
COREY JOHNSON Panola College
AVIVA KUGEL SUNY-Buffalo
AMY JO MARCANO Baldwin-Wallace College
ZENITHSON NG Rutgers University, Cook College
NOE RAMOS University of Texas Pan-American
MICHAEL THREATT Lawson State Community College, University of Alabama-Birmingham
KATE WILLAMAN The College of Wooster
TIFFANY WOODS Tougaloo College




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