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Princeton University
Postdoctoral Teaching Fellows Program
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Rebecca received her BS in Biological Science at the University of Connecticut in 1997, and then earned a MS in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology (OEB) at the University of Massachusetts in 2000. This past August (2001) she received her PhD in OEB also at the University of Massachusetts. During her doctoral work, Rebecca was a Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN) Fellow offered through OEB from the US Department of Education. Through this fellowship, Rebecca was able to participate in K-16 and community educational outreach programs. While attending school, Rebecca also had the opportunity to teach or assist in teaching several courses including Psychology, Introductory Biology, and Animal Ecology. She finds teaching and outreach extremely rewarding and plans to continue teaching in the future. This September, Rebecca will assist Katherine Sullivan and James Gould in their efforts to further develop the laboratory exercises for the Biology of Organisms course (EEB 211) offered here at Princeton.
Rebecca began her research career as an undergraduate when she investigated growth rate variation in larval bay anchovy. She continued to study fish for her non-thesis MS project during which she studied the feeding ecology of juvenile striped bass. For her doctoral work, Rebecca combined physiology, visual ecology, genetics, and behavioral study while investigating the visual factors that influence mate choice in the extremely diverse cichlid fish fauna of Lake Malawi, Africa. Additionally, Rebecca has participated in several side projects including work with darters and Atlantic salmon. Her work with fish complements her broader interests in evolution and behavior. Here at Princeton, Rebecca plans to collaborate with James Gould on a project involving the study of sexual selection and fishes.