2008

Tyler Davis was awarded an Explorers’ Club Grant for his research on sexual conflict in superb starlings.  (6/08)

After long delays at KWS, Wilson Nderitu finally graduated with his Diploma in Wildlife Management from the Kenya Wildlife Service Training Institute.  (6/08)

Dustin Rubenstein has accepted an offer to become an Assistant Professor of Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology at Columbia University and will start in Fall 2009.  (3/08)

The 2008 Cornell Tropical Field Ecology and Behavior class has been rescheduled for June 23 through July 11, 2008.  (3/08)

Rebecca Calisi was awarded a Grant-in-Aid of Research from the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology to study brain neural plasticity in relation to the adoption of different breeding roles in free-living cooperatively breeding superb starlings in Kenya. Becca also won the award for Best Student Poster from the Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology’s Division of Neuroscience at the 2008 SICB annual meeting.  (1/08)

Due to post-election violence in Kenya, the 2008 Cornell Tropical Field Ecology and Behavior class was cancelled. If the political climate in Kenya improves, the field course may be rescheduled for June.  (1/08)

2009

Sara Keen and James Kealey were both awarded research travels grants from Columbia’s Earth Institute.  (12/09)

Dustin Rubenstein was profiled in Nature and interviewed on the Nature Podcast.  (12/09)

Wilson Nderitu was profiled in Mpala Memos.  (10/09)

Dustin Rubenstein’s 2004 TREE paper was named as a “Fast Moving Front” by Thomson Reuters.  (9/09)

The 2010 Tropical Field Ecology and Behavior class (January in Kenya) will be jointly run for Cornell and Columbia undergraduate students this year.  (9/09)

The Rubenstein Lab has finally moved to Columbia University and was profiled in The Record.  (8/09)

Melissa Mark was awarded a 3-yr NSF Minority Postdoctoral Research Fellowship to work in the Rubenstein Lab starting in Jan 2010.  (5/09)

2010

Dustin Rubenstein and colleagues (EIleen Lacey, Steven Phelps, and Nancy Solomon) were awarded a grant from the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent) to organize a working group entitled “Integrative models of vertebrate sociality: evolution, mechanism and emergent properties” from 2011 - 2012.  (10/10)          

Dustin Rubenstein was awarded the 2011 Young Investigator Award by the Animal Behavior Society.  (8/10)

After a number of requests from the public, the Rubenstein Lab created a Facebook page to promote our research.  (8/10)

Dustin Rubenstein’s research trip to northern Kenya was featured in The New York Times’ Scientists at Work Blog.  (7/10)

E3B will be offering a Field Course in Kenya for Columbia University undergraduates in May/June 2011.  (6/10)

Congratulations to Godffrey Manyaas, the proud father of a beautiful new baby girl.  (4/10)

Sara Keen received an honorable mention for her NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Application.  (4/10)

Dustin Rubenstein was awarded the 2010 The Ned K. Johnson Young Investigator Award by the American Ornithologists‘ Union.  (2/10)

James Kealey was awarded a Sigma Xi Grant-in-Aid of research.  (1/10)

2011

Incoming student Sarah Guidre-Parker was awarded a Canadian NSERC Fellowship to fund her PhD work.  (4/12)

Julia Pilowsky received a Charles Turner Travel Award from the Animal Behavior Society to present her Senior Thesis research at the Annual Meetings this summer.  (3/12)

Rebecca Kelley was awarded a Sigma Xi Grant-in-Aid of research.  (12/11)

James Kealey’s work on snapping shrimp was profiled in the STRI News.  (12/11)

Julia Pilowsky’s senior thesis research on song in superb starlings was featured in the Columbia Spectator.  (9/11)

Sara Keen was awarded a Conference Travel Award by the American Ornithologists’ Union to present her MA thesis work at the 2011 Annual Meetings.  (5/11)

James Kealey was awarded a Smithsonian Institution Short-term Fellowship, as well as the Ernst Mayer Fellowship, which is given annually to the most outstanding Short-term Fellowship candidate.  (4/11)

James Kealey was awarded a Columbia Institute of Latin American Studies research grant.  (4/11)

The Rubenstein Lab was featured in the Spring 2011 issue of the Columbia Magazine.  (4/11)

Sara Keen received her second honorable mention for her NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Application.  (4/11)

Dustin Rubenstein and colleagues (Jennifer Fewell and Jim Hunt) were awarded a grant from the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent) to organize a working group entitled “Large-scale demographic, network and behavioral trait analyses of sociality” from 2011 - 2013.  (2/11) 

Dustin Rubenstein will be co-organizing (with Michael Levandowsky) a one-day symposium at Columbia in April on “Sexual selection, social conflict and the female perspective”. Information and details on how to register for FREE can be found here.  (2/11)