PhD student Sarah Dobney found that dense vegetation over their nests can affect what songs young savannah sparrows hear and learn from their elders.
PhD student Sarah Dobney found that dense vegetation over their nests can affect what songs young savannah sparrows hear and learn from their elders.
Two University of Windsor graduate students won prizes for outstanding talks at the recent annual meeting of the Society of Canadian Ornithologists.
Sarah Dobney, a PhD student in the Department of Integrative Biology, won the “Early Program Award” for an outstanding presentation from an early-career researcher. Her prize-winning talk was titled: “Quiet in the nest: Nest environment diminishes song transmission to nestlings.”
The return of study-abroad opportunities will see UWindsor students engage in fieldwork this summer in Costa Rica and Iceland.
The Essex Region Conservation Authority conferred an education award on UWindsor’s Healthy Headwater Lab.
Christina Semeniuk and Drew Marquardt are the inaugural Faculty of Science Research Chairs.