In September 2000, we welcomed Jeff Podos, our new behavioral ecologist.  Jeff comes to us with a B.A. magna cum laude from Franklin and Marshall University, a Ph.D. from Duke University and a postdoc at the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, U. of Arizona, where he worked on the Analysis of Biological Diversification project.  Jeff spent this winter in the Galapagos studying Darwin's finches (see page 1). At right is a Galapagos tortoise being studied by the young Daniel Podos.
This Fall we will be joined by Elizabeth Dumont, our new vertebrate evolutionary biologist.  Her research goal is to understand "the integrated roles of morphology, behavior and ecology in mammalian evolution."  Elizabeth obtained a B.A., with honors, in anthropology at Indiana University and a M.A. and Ph.D in anthropology at SUNY Stony Brook.  Elizabeth was voted "Teacher of the Year" by the Class of 2002 in her recent position as Assistant Professor in the Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine, Northeastern Ohio University.