Absdigest digest, Vol 7 #45
James Ha
jcha at u.washington.edu
Mon Oct 29 11:02:12 EST 2001
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+ A B S n e t - Electronic Newsletter +
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| Maintained in association with the Animal Behavior Society and |
| in conjunction with the Center for the Integrative Study of |
| Animal Behaviour at Indiana University |
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| Editors: * James C. Ha Internet: jcha at u.washington.edu|
| ** Shan D. Duncan Internet: sdduncan at indiana.edu |
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Today's Topics:
1. Jobs at Tennessee
2. ***Call for nominations: ABS Teaching Award***
3. PhD applicants encouraged, Psychobiology
4. post-doc research
5. ***ABS Student Research Awards - Call for Applications***
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Message: 1
From: Chris Boake <cboake at utk.edu>
Subject: Jobs at Tennessee
The Division of Biology at UT has numerous faculty positions open. The
following may be of particular interest to behavioral biologists.
The Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology will fill up to two
tenure track positions to start on August 1, 2002. Applications will be
considered from the following areas:
Area I. Computational/theoretical ecology and/or evolution. While the
research area is open, attractive research areas include complex
ecological or evolutionary systems, problems at multiple spatial scales,
and individual-based models.
Area II. Ecology. The specific research field is open. Research interests
in conservation biology, landscape ecology, animal-plant interactions
including invertebrate physiological ecology, and freshwater ecosystem
ecology are particularly attractive.
Area III. Fish ecology, evolution and/or systematics. A major
responsibility of this position is the curation and further
development of the UT fish collections.
Interested candidates should send a resume indicating research goals,
teaching experience and goals, and names, addresses, phone numbers, and
e-mail addresses of three references to Dr. Dan Simberloff, Nancy Gore
Hunger Chair of Environmental Studies, Department of Ecology and
Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville TN 37996.
Review of applications will begin on November 15, 2001.
Positions are at the assistant professor or, in special circumstances,
associate professor level and require a strong commitment to quality
undergraduate and graduate teaching. Postdoctoral experience or the
equivalent is advantageous. Area II and III applicants should have or
develop a research plan to take advantage of the natural resources
available in the Tennessee region.
More information about the Department of Ecology and
Evolutionary Biology can be found at:
http://www.bio.utk.edu/eebwebsi.nsf
Descriptions of additional positions in the Division of Biology can be
found at:
http://recruit.sciencemag.org/cgi/show/5541/5541xD269P4606
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Message: 2
From: Penny Bernstein <PBERNSTEIN at stark.kent.edu>
Subject: Call for nominations: ABS Teaching Award
CALL FOR NOMINATIONS
McGraw-Hill Higher Education Distinguished Teaching Award
PLEASE TAKE A FEW MOMENTS TO NOMINATE YOUR COLLEAGUES FOR THIS AWARD. The
recipient will receive a $500 personal stipend from McGraw-Hill, a plaque
from the Society, and the opportunity to organize an education-related
event at the following annual meeting. It is much easier to learn about
our colleagues' publication records than it is to know about their
teaching expertise. And yet the impact we have on students is often
long-lasting and may reverberate over generations, as our former students
go on to teach future students. Please help the Society recognize the
excellent teachers within our ranks by nominating members who you feel
meet the criteria below.
Nominators and nominees must be current members of the Animal Behavior
Society (current officers and committee chairs are not eligible for
nomination). Nominees must show evidence of highly effective and
innovative teaching and have a reputation among peers and students for
excellence in undergraduate animal behavior instruction, maintained over a
number of years. Persons wishing to nominate an individual for the award
must submit a one-page nomination letter and include names, addresses and
phone numbers or email addresses of at least two additional peer reviewers
and two current or former undergraduate students (department chairs or
colleagues may be helpful sources for this information if you are not at
the same institution as the person you are nominating). The committee will
solicit supporting materials such as course syllabi, student evaluation
summaries, additional letters of support, documentation of teaching
awards, evidence of teaching innovations, textual or laboratory materials
developed by the nominee, and other appropriate indicators of superior
undergraduate teaching. If you know of specific materials that would be
appropriate for the committee to examine, please mention those in your
nominating letter. Selection of the award recipient will be made by the
Animal Behavior Society Education Committee and approved by the Executive
Council. The award recipient will be announced at the annual meeting.
Nominating letters must be submitted by March 31, 2002. Please submit to
Dr. Penny Bernstein, Chair of the Animal Behavior Society Education
Committee, Kent State University Stark Campus, 6000 Frank Avenue, Canton,
OH 44720 USA, pbernstein at stark.kent.edu
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Message: 3
From: Eric Charles <epcharles at ucdavis.edu>
Subject: PhD applicants encouraged, Psychobiology
Psychobiology Program, University of California at Davis
UC Davis's psychobiology faculty is unusually diverse and active, with
expertise in the full range of biological influences on behavior,
including evolutionary, ecological, social, neural and hormonal aspects.
Students can pursue truly interdisciplinary research using a wide
variety of methods and theoretical approaches. Graduate education is
enhanced by our faculty's affiliations with several internationally
known, interdisciplinary units including the Animal Behavior Graduate
Group, the California Regional Primate Research Center, the Center for
Neuroscience, and the Ecology Graduate Group. We offer excellent field,
laboratory, computer and library facilities as well as exceptional
colleagues in other areas of psychology and ancillary biological
sciences. Davis is located approximately midway between San Francisco
and the Pacific coast to the west and the Sierra Nevada Mountains to the
east. With these surrounding areas, Davis offers a wealth of
intellectual, cultural, and recreational opportunities.
John P. Capitanio (Ph.D., University of California at Davis, 1982)
primate behavior and development, psychoneuroimmunology, AIDS
Richard G. Coss (Ph.D., University of Reading, England, 1973)
developmental psychobiology, environmental psychology
Kenneth R. Henry (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 1970) audition,
behavior genetics
Leah A. Krubitzer (Ph.D., Vanderbilt University, 1989) evolutionary
neurobiology
William A. Mason (Ph.D., Stanford University 1954) primate social behavior
Sally P. Mendoza (Ph.D., Stanford University, 1978) behavioral
neuroendocrinology, primate social relationships
Robert M. Murphey (Ph.D., Vanderbilt University, 1966) farm animal
behavior, behavior genetics
Donald H. Owings (Ph.D., University of Washington, 1972) animal
behavior, communication, antipredator behavior
Jeffrey C. Schank (Ph.D. University of Chicago 1991) developmental
psychobiology, modeling of social processes
Joanna Scheib (Ph.D., McMaster University, 1996) animal
behavior/evolutionary psychology, mate choice and reproductive relationship
Further information is available from our department website at
http://psychology.ucdavis.edu. For questions about the Psychology
graduate program contact Bill Antaramian, our staff program coordinator,
at (530)752-9362 or by email, at wrantaramian at ucdvis.edu. Feel free to
contact any of the faculty listed above for further information about
particular research projects. We welcome your interest and inquiries.
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Message: 4
From: "Isabelle CHARRIER" <ISABELLE.CHARRIER at wanadoo.fr>
Subject: post-doc research
Dear All,
My name is Isabelle Charrier, I'm currently doing my Ph.D in Bioacoustics.
I'm looking for a funded post-doctoral research (beginning in
October-November 2002, for 1 or 2 years) in neuro-ethology or behavioural
ecology (birds or mammals), in relation with acoustic communication.
Indeed, at present I'm working on acoustic communication, and more
precisely on mother-young vocal recognition in a colonial marine mammal
species, the Subantarctic fur seal Arctocephalus tropicalis. I have skills
in computer science, acoustic signal analysis, and strong experience in
the design and execution of playback experiments in the field (on colonial
birds and mammal species - I have spent 9 months working on a fur seals
colony on Amsterdam Island, Indian Ocean). For further information,
please, do not hesitate to contact me.
Sincerely,
Isabelle Charrier
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CHARRIER Isabelle
Laboratoire de Biologie Animale
Université Jean Monnet
23 rue Michelon
42023 Saint Etienne cedex 2
France
Tél: (33) (0) 4 77 48 15 80
Fax : (33) (0) 4 77 25 18 17
E-mail : isabelle.charrier at wanadoo.fr
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Message: 5
From: Shelley Adamo <sadamo at is.dal.ca>
Subject: Re: Student Research Awards
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
ABS Student Research Grants
The ABS Research Grants Committee announces the 2002 competition for funds
in support of student research. Only student members of ABS (who must be
an active member on the application deadline) enrolled in graduate
programs are eligible to apply. Recipients of past research awards are
ineligible. A total of $15,000 (US) will be available to support ten
students at a level of no more than $1000 each and an additional ten
students for up to $500 each.
The DEADLINE for receipt of completed applications is January 25, 2002.
Late applications will not be accepted. Applications will be reviewed by
two or three referees and applicants will be notified of the results by
April 1, 2002. The preferred method for receiving and submitting
applications is through http://www.animalbehavior.org/ABS/Grants/ (check
the left hand side for the links).
ABS recommends uploading the files electronically using the PDF format.
This is essential if you have figures or mathematical equations and wish
to preserve any special formating. Other file formats, such as html or
plain text, can be uploaded but will not include figures, special
formatting or equations. If you can not apply electronically contact Dr.
Shelley Adamo at sadamo at is.dal.ca.
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| University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195 |
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| Center for the Integrative Study of Animal Behavior - Indiana University|
| 402 N. Park Ave, Bloomington, IN 47405 |
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