2023
September
- Congratulations to Andrés for defending his PhD!
- We welcome Julia Self as an MSc student
- Congratulations to Julia Self for winning an NSERC CGS-M
- Congratulations to Julia Self for winning a Canadian Psychological Association Certificates of Academic Excellence for her honours thesis
July
- Congratulations to Connor for being selected to deliver a talk in the Allee Symposium at ABS 2023 in Portland, USA
- We extend a warm welcome to Maryam Abdelhamed a WISEST Summer Research Program student from Queen Elizabeth High School, Alberta who will be working with us for 6 weeks
- Ben and Connor presented at ABS 2023 in Portland, USA. Lauren went for moral support!
May
- We welcome two MITACS Globalink Research Interns for 12 weeks: Nakul Wewhare from IISER Pune, India and Priya Binwal from IISER Kolkata, India
April
- Congratulations to Connor won (for the second year in a row!) the “Best Publication by a Graduate Student in Comparative Cognition” from the Comparative Cognition Society for his paper: Lambert, C. T., Sahu, P. K., Sturdy, C. B., & Guillette, L. M. (2022). Among-individual differences in auditory and physical cognitive abilities in zebra finches. Learning & Behavior, 50, 389-404. https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13420-022-00520-w
- Congratulations to Andrés for winning the Ron Weisman Outstanding Student Presentation Award at the 30th International Conference on Comparative Cognition in Florida, USA.
March
- Congrats to Andrés who won a Kuczaj Memorial Travel Grant to attend the 30th International Conference on Comparative Cognition in Florida, USA in April.
- Congrats to Stefan Stanescu for winning an Undergraduate Research Initiative Summer Stipend and an NSERC USRA to continue their work this summer.
January
- Congrats to Julia Self for being awarded a Clare Patershuk Travel Award to present her ugrad honours thesis research at the 30th International Conference on Comparative Cognition in Florida, USA in April.
- Congrats to Andrés whose first-authored meta-analysis was published in the Psychonomic Bulletin & Review From whom do animals learn? A meta‑analysis on model‑based social learning: e/c23NU
- Congrats to Lauren who is now the Editor-in-Chief of Learning & Behavior.
2022
October
- Congrats to Connor Lambert for being awarded the prestigious Dorothy J Killam Memorial Graduate Prize. Connor was also invited to give a talk about his PhD research at the Killam Awards & Luncheon.
September
- Welcome to three new undergraduate team members: Nicole Gerle, Harleen Kooner and Stefan Stanescu! Read about these folks on our People page
August
- Ben and Andrés were awarded project from MITACS Globalink to hire two international undergraduate research assistants in summer 2023, congrats! See the job advert here on our opportunities page (applications due 22 September 2022).
July
- Lauren, Connor and Andrés presented at ABS 2022 in Costa Rica.
- Deborah and Anna joined the team as WISEST Summer Research Program students. Read more about them on our people page.
June
- Congrats to Andrés for being featured in the Psychology alumni and friends newsletter | Summer 2022 as the STAR student
- Lauren is named Editor-in-Chief of Learning & Behavior, announcement here.
- Karen Yeung joined the team as a Summer 2022 Mitacs Globalink Research Intern. Karen is an Ecology & Biodiversity (Intensive) major student at the University of Hong Kong who is also minoring in Biochemistry. Karen will be running experiments with Connor and Ben for the ManyBirds project. Welcome to the team!
May
- Connor Lambert was awarded an Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Scholarship Congratulations, Connor!
- Julia Self (URI – Undergraduate Summer Stipend) and Cailyn Poole (Research Assistant) are working in the laboratory this summer, and we are so glad to have them stay around!
April
- Lauren traveled to Indiana University to give a talk to the Integrative Study of Animal Behavior folks
- Connor, Andrés and Gopika all give talks at (virtual) CO3, the 29th International Conference on Comparative Cognition
- Connor won the inaugural “Best Publication by a Graduate Student in Comparative Cognition” from the Comparative Cognition Society for his paper: Lambert, CT, Guillette, LM (2021) The impact of environmental and social factors on learning: A meta-analysis. Biological Reviews, doi: 10.1002/BRV.12783
March
- Lauren gave the Departmental Seminar in the Department of Psychology at the University of Alberta
- Congratulations to ACRG BSc Psychology Honours Thesis student Julia Self who was awarded a Green & Gold Student Leadership and Professional Development Grant to attend the 2nd World Diversity in Leadership Conference from June 20-24, 2022 in Edmonton, Alberta
- Lauren gave a seminar to the Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour Colloquium at McMaster University in Ontario, Canada
- Lauren gave a seminar to the Ecology, Evolution & Behaviour group at McMaster University in Ontario, Canada
- New paper by first-author and ACRG PhD Connor Lambert wit co-authors from our Department of Psychology colleagues Prateek Sahu and Dr. Chris Sturdy “Among-individual differences in auditory and physical cognitive abilities in zebra finches” published in Learning & Behavior
February
- New paper with Tas Vamos, Sue Healy and Simmone Meddle: “Involvement of the neural social behaviour network during social information acquisition in zebra finches” bit.ly/3Bnves5
- Awarded Animal Behavior Society Outreach Grant 2022
- Congrats for former ACRG teammate Harsimran Khinda who will start in the New York University College of Dentistry (USA) PhD program this summer!
January
- New team member: Dr. Ben Whittaker joins the team as a postdoctoral researcher. Follow Ben on twitter @ba_whittaker
- New(ish) team member: Jessica Hewitt joins the team as an independent studies student. Jessica has volunteered with the ACRG for over a year.
- Congrats to Gopika Balasubramanian for successfully defending her MSc thesis!