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Prof. Gordon Burghardt’s research is highlighted in the cover story of the November 2016 issue of the Association for Psychological Science’s journal, Observer. The title of his subsection is “Can Turtles Play?” Read the article here.
http://www.psychologicalscience.org/publications/observer/2016/nov-16/science-on-the-wild-side.html
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Prof. Dan Simberloff appeared in articles in both Wired and Slate in August.
Wired featured Simberloff in a story about human control over species population size. Tennessee Today also posted a synopsis of Simberloff’s contributions to the article.
Slate featured Simberloff in a debate about whether biocontrol is a better alternative to pesticides. Tennessee Today summarized Simberloff’s contributions to the article.
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The popular Scientific American Blog has posted an article about bat research done by grad student Jessica Welch (McCracken and Simberloff labs) and NIMBioS postdoc Jeremy Beaulieu.
Tennessee Today also did an article covering the blog post.
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Susan Riechert was quoted in a Washington Post article this week, to reassure residents about the harmless aggregation of thousands of small spiders and the resulting half-mile-long spider web that appeared in North Memphis, TN.
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Tennessee’s Wild Side filmed a short documentary featuring some of the research Cassie Dresser (Fitzpatrick Lab) and her collaborators are doing on the endangered Bog Turtle in Shady Valley, Tennessee. The show aired on October 31 at 10 AM on PBS. Return to Shady Valley (Wild Side)
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Sergey Gavrilets is co-organizing a workshop on warfare this week at NIMBioS, called “Evolutionary approaches to the understanding of decentralized warfare.“He was recently interviewed on NPR because of the workshop. Gavrilets’s research on warfare has attracted other media attention in the past, including Huffington Post, Popular Mechanics, and Nature.
His interview was featured in Tennessee Today.
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On pages 6-7 in the March 2015 issue of National Geographic, there is a shout-out to J.R. Shute (MS 1984, Zoology) and Pat Rakes (MS 1989, Zoology), two of Dave Etnier’s former Zoology graduate students. They founded Conservation Fisheries, Inc., based in Knoxville, which is devoted to the captive rearing and, where possible, the release and re-establishment of threatened and endangered freshwater fishes. They are noted for their ability to develop artificial habitats and other aspects of husbandry which will encourage their finicky charges to spawn and for the young to survive to become breeding stock for future generations. This is not easy, since many of the fishes with which they work inhabit cool, fast-flowing, highly-oxygenated streams and are picky about the substrate over which they will mate and in which to lay their eggs. They have both spent many hours in wet suits making the observations that are often a major part of their success.
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Gordon Burghardt’s work is featured in a New York Times piece: Learning from Animal Friendships
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Gary McCracken will be interviewing tomorrow (Wednesday 1/14) on the NPR radio show “On Point with Tom Ashbrook.” This show is a call-in format that airs live from 11 AM – 12 Noon. We’ll be talking about bats, Ebola, and hopefully bat conservation.
Here are directives to the show from NPR: The site for our hour is located at this link: http://wbur.fm/14S6wjq
We’re located on Twitter @OnPointRadio and on Facebook at Facebook.com/OnPointRadio. Our host, Tom Ashbrook, tweets @TomAshbrookNPR. Feel free to direct your friends and followers to the show on any digital platform that works best for you. #OnPointRadio
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UPDATE: The local NPR station, WUOT, aired an interview with Gordon Burghardt on October 24 for the program, Changing Course. Burghardt discussed play throughout the animal world and his pregame showcase.
Alumni Distinguished Service Professor Gordon Burghardt is known for his research on animal behavior, particularly playing behavior in taxa that are not thought to play. His research on play in cichlid fish has been featured recently in the international press.
This Saturday, Burghardt will be talking about the importance of play at the Pregame Showcase, prior to the football game against the Alabama Crimson Tide. The showcase will begin at 5:30 p.m., two hours before kickoff, in the Carolyn P. Brown University Center Ballroom (Room 213). The showcase is free and open to the public, and it features a thirty-minute presentation followed by a fifteen-minute question-and-answer session. A brief reception will be held after the program, and a door prize will be awarded.