News
There is a newly recognized species of meadowlark in North America, the Chihuahan Meadowlark, thanks to the hard work of Johanna Beam and her direct undergraduate honors thesis supervisor Erik Funk. Read all about this new development here:
Welcome to our incoming PhD students Sara, Nikki, and Ajay, as well as our incoming NSF REPS Fellow Abi. Check out their profiles to learn more about our newest lab members!
Some lab members recently returned from the first in person scientific meetings since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Angela and Scott traveled to Cleveland for the Evolution meeting where Angela gave a talk on her dissertation work and
At the 2019 Evolution meeting in Rhode Island Scott participated in a storytelling event called Outside the Distribution. Recently Story Collider featured Scott’s story about belonging and navigating being a gay scientist on their blog. You can
Congratulations to Maria who will be starting a new position as an Assistant Professor in the Biology Department at the University of Massachusetts Amherst this fall!
The 2022 field season of the Boulder Chickadee Study has wrapped. Mia banded and bled the final mountain chickadees of the season during an outreach event at the MRS with folks from the Denver Field Ornithologists on July 10th. This field season was
Congratulations to the Taylor Lab graduates of 2022! From left to right, Will recieved his undergraduate degree with honors, while Dr. Grabenstein, Dr. Theodosopoulos, and Dr. Funk all had their PhD conferred. Not pictured is Cori who also recieved
Congratulations to Angela who just found out that she won a Fulbright Award for Sweden starting this fall! Angela will be using her time as a Fulbright recipient to expand on her recent discovery (published in Biology Letters) that
Congratulations to Will who was recently awarded a research grant from the American Ornithological Society! This research grant will be used by Will to expand on his honors thesis documenting a region of hybridization along the Front Range between