Postdoctorals



1974-75: Diane W. Davidson, University of Arizona, University of Utah.

1985-86: Allen R. Lewis, Department of Biology, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico.

1992-93: Daniel T. Haydon, Postdoctoral research associate, Oxford University, U.K.; University of British Columbia; Centre for Tropical Veterinary Medicine, Midlothian, Scotland; Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada. Currently Director, Institute of Biodiversity Animal Health and Comparative Medicine, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland.

1999: Cheong H. Diong, Head, Natural Sciences, National Institute of Education, Singapore.

2000-2002: Monica Swartz, (Ph.D. 1997). "Behavioral and population ecology of the army ant Eciton burchelli and ant-following birds." Fulbright to Costa Rica, 1993-94. Taught a field course in Amazonian Peru for Evergreen College, Olympia, Washington. Taught a field course in the neotropical Ecuador for Boston University. Postdoc at the Center for Conservation Biology at the University of California, Riverside. 2002-2004; Lead Scientist for the Coachella Valley Water District. Director of the Wild Basin Wilderness Preserve, Associate Professor of Biology, St. Edwards University, Austin, Texas.

2000-2003: L. Ramki Ramakrishnan (Ph.D. 2000). Currently population scientist and Country Director of 'Solidarity and Action against the HIV Infection in India' in Chennai, India.

2010-2011: Cristiano Nogueira, Universidade de São Paulo, Brasil

2013-2014: Daniel O. Mesquita, Universidade Federal da Paraiba, Brasil

2016-2017: Nicolás Pelegrin, Instituto de Diversidad y Ecologia Animal (CONICET-UNC), Argentina


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