Author Archive

May 2020

Dr. Jason Unrine, Professor, has been awarded a 2019-2020 University of Kentucky Research Professorship.  This award recognizes faculty members who have demonstrated excellence in research and creative work that addresses scientific, social, cultural, economic or health challenges in our region and around the world.

The University Research Professorships were established by the UK Board of Trustees in 1976 to recognize outstanding research achievement.  The professorships program recognizes excellence across the full spectrum of research, scholarship and creative endeavors within ...

April 20, 2020

Dr. Sarah DuRant, Assistant Professor at the University of Arkansas and Hopkins lab Alum, was recently awarded a 5 year CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation, among the most prestigious funding accomplishments available to pre-tenure faculty members.  Dr. DuRant’s work is very timely, as she will be examining the role of maternal behavior in driving bidirectional interactions between infectious diseases and offspring immune phenotype.

Congratulations Sarah!!

MARCH 5, 2020

Congratulations to Hopkins Lab alumna, Sydney Hope!  Dr. Hope is the 2020 recipient for the Virginia Tech Graduate School’s Outstanding Dissertation Award in the Science, Technology, and Math category.  Her dissertation was titled “Consequences of avian parental incubation behavior for within-clutch variance in incubation temperature and offspring behavioral phenotypes.”

This prestigious recognition is awarded based on the originality of idea, clarity and effectiveness of presentation, quality of writing and significance of the contribution to the field.

Way to ...

January 14, 2020

Dr. Sydney Hope, Hopkins Lab alumna ‘2019, is off France to conduct her postdoctoral research at the Centre d’Etudes Biologiques de Chizé. She is studying how subtle changes to the environment in which animals develop can have significant and long-term consequences for their morphology, physiology, behavior, and survival. Currently, she is investigating whether changes in the temperature at which zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata) eggs are incubated affect offspring morphology and physiology shortly after hatching, as well ...

December 18, 2019

Sydney Hope successfully defended her dissertation on December 3 in Fralin Auditorium. Her public seminar was titled, “Consequences of avian parental incubation behavior for within-clutch variance in incubation temperature and offspring behavioral phenotypes”.  Sydney, a member of the Hopkins Lab, also graduates as a PhD Fellow of the Interfaces of Global Change Interdisciplinary Graduate Education Program at Virginia Tech.

Sydney is now headed to the Centre d’Etudes Biologiques de Chizé in France for a postdoctoral researcher ...