{"id":558,"date":"2022-01-26T21:04:35","date_gmt":"2022-01-26T21:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.psych.ualberta.ca\/animal-cognition-ualberta\/wordpress\/?page_id=558"},"modified":"2026-01-02T18:16:02","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T18:16:02","slug":"news","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.psych.ualberta.ca\/animal-cognition-ualberta\/wordpress\/?page_id=558","title":{"rendered":"news"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns alignwide is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\" id=\"2022\">2025<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">December <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Congratulations to Julia who passed her M.Sc. defense with no revisions!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Lauren gave a talk at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparativepsychology.org\/Meetings\/\">International Society for Comparative Psychology conference<\/a> in Bogota, Colombia. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Lauren was elected as a Member-at-large for the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparativepsychology.org\/\"> International Society for Comparative Psychology<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Professor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bucknell.edu\/fac-staff\/reggie-gazes\">Reggie Gazes<\/a> from Bucknell University, USA visited the ACRG and gave a seminar for Comparative Cognition &amp; Behaviour                          <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">October<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Lauren gave a seminar for the Cognitive and Comparative Psychology Colloquium, Brooklyn College, City University of New York (New York, USA) [online]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">September<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>We welcome Steven (Rocky) Baker who started his M.Sc. in the ACRG! <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Lauren is co-guest-editing a Special Issue of <em>Acta Ethologica <\/em>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/collections\/decehfhiib\">Animal Intelligence: From Individual to Social Cognition<\/a>&#8221; based on the symposium  at the <a href=\"https:\/\/behaviourindia2025.in\/\">Behaviour2025<\/a>  conference in Kolkata, India, in August<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">August<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Ben, Julia and Lauren presented talks at the <a href=\"https:\/\/behaviourindia2025.in\/\">Behaviour2025<\/a>  conference in Kolkata, India <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Lauren co-organized a symposium on Animal Intelligence at the <a href=\"https:\/\/behaviourindia2025.in\/\">Behaviour2025<\/a>  conference in Kolkata, India.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">June<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Congrats to Brandon Neil for convocation with an honours degree in Psychology!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The ACRG is happy to welcome two <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ualberta.ca\/en\/women-in-scholarship-engineering-science-technology\/programs\/summer-research-program\/index.html\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.ualberta.ca\/en\/women-in-scholarship-engineering-science-technology\/programs\/summer-research-program\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">WiSEST Summer Research Students<\/a> this summer: Mylie Holmes from Jasper, Alberta and Tanishka Vadia from Lloydminster, Alberta<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">May<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Congrats to Brandon Neil who was awarded an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca\/students-etudiants\/ug-pc\/usra-brpc_eng.asp\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca\/students-etudiants\/ug-pc\/usra-brpc_eng.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NSERC USRA<\/a> to continue working in the ACRG this summer.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>We are happy to welcome Sam Weetman-Gares as a Research Assistant this summer. Sam is well positioned for this role following an independent studies course with the ACRG this spring.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">March<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Ben, Julia and Lauren attended the <a href=\"https:\/\/comparativecognition.org\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/comparativecognition.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">32nd International Conference on Comparative Cognition<\/a> in Albuquerque, NM, USA. Congrats to Julia who was awarded the &#8216;best talk&#8217; by the CCS awards committee, sponsored by the Psychonomic Society.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Congrats to Rocky Baker (University of South Alabama, USA) who accepted an offer to start an MSc with the ACRG in September 2025. Rocky was awarded a University of Alberta Graduate Recruitment Scholarship. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">February<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Lauren visited The University of Texas at Austin to give a seminar in the <a href=\"https:\/\/integrativebio.utexas.edu\/\">Department of Integrative Biology<\/a> and was hosted by the <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.utexas.edu\/cummingslab\/\">Professor Molly Cummings<\/a> and her amazing team.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\" id=\"2022\">2024<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">December<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Congrats to Julia for winning a Alberta Graduate Excellence Scholarship!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">September<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Lauren is a co-author on a paper published in Science! &#8216;Architectural traditions in the structures built by cooperative weaver birds&#8217; open access link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/science.adn2573\">https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/science.adn2573<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">August<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>We welcome Sofia Garrido as an MSc student to the ACRG!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Congrats to the entire ACRG (Ben, Julia, Lauren, Brandon) for winning a group recognition Mentoring award from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ualberta.ca\/en\/women-in-scholarship-engineering-science-technology\/programs\/summer-research-program\/index.html\">Wisest summer research program<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Our work was featured in the Faculty of Science news: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ualberta.ca\/en\/psychology\/news-and-events\/psychology-news\/2024\/july\/birds-can-build-nests-but-do-they-have-style.html\">https:\/\/www.ualberta.ca\/en\/psychology\/news-and-events\/psychology-news\/2024\/july\/birds-can-build-nests-but-do-they-have-style.html<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">July<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>We welcome Avery Baldwin (Harry Ainlay High School in Edmonton, Alberta) and Isabella De Guzman (St. Mary&#8217;s Catholic School in Vegreville, Alberta) to the laboratory, supported by the 2024 <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ualberta.ca\/women-in-scholarship-engineering-science-technology\/index.html\">Women in Scholarship, Engineering, Science, and Technology (WISEST)<\/a> Summer Research Program<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">June<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Ben and Lauren traveled to London, ON Canada to attend the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animalbehaviorsociety.org\/2024\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.animalbehaviorsociety.org\/2024\/\">Animal Behavior Society <\/a>conference. Dr. Ben Whittaker gave a talk &#8220;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.animalbehaviorsociety.org\/abs_online\/mobile\/show_presentation.php?abstractno=178\">Lessons in love: does staying with the same partner facilitate learning about nest building?<\/a><\/strong>&#8220;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">May<\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Welcome to Henry Swartwood Garcia, who is an undergraduate intern from  University of the Americas Puebla (Mexico), and will be working in the laboratory this summer supported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mitacs.ca\/our-programs\/globalink-research-internship-students\/\">MITACS Globalink Research Internship <\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Congrats to Brandon Neil for winning and NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award to work in the laboratory full time this summer. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Congrats to Umama Mir for winning a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ualberta.ca\/current-students\/undergraduate-research-initiative\/funding\/researcher-stipend.html\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.ualberta.ca\/current-students\/undergraduate-research-initiative\/funding\/researcher-stipend.html\">URI Undergraduate Researcher Stipend <\/a>with support from Scotiabank to support BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) researchers. We are thrilled to have Umama working in the laboratory full time this summer.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">April<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Connor, Lauren and Ben attended the 31st <a href=\"http:\/\/comparativecognition.org\/conference.php\">International Conference on Comparative Cognition<\/a> at its NEW location in Albuquerque, NM, USA. Connor and Ben each gave a talk and Lauren was busy in her last year as President of the <a href=\"http:\/\/comparativecognition.org\/\">Comparative Cognition Society.<\/a> <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Congrats to Dr. Ben Whittaker on a first-authored paper: Protocol to quantify bird nest morphology via image analyses using linear measurements and geometric landmarks in STAR Protocols <a href=\"https:\/\/star-protocols.cell.com\/protocols\/3408\">https:\/\/star-protocols.cell.com\/protocols\/3408<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">March<\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Congrats to Dr. Connor Lambert for successfully defending his Ph.D. thesis!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">February<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Congrats to Sofia Garrido Villegas and Chandler Carr who were each awarded a University of Alberta Graduate Recruitment Scholarship<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">January<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Congrats to Dr. Ben Whittaker on another first-authored paper: The roles of social information, asocial information, and initial bias in nest-building decisions. Whittaker, Benjamin A.; Balasubramanian, Gopika; Camacho-Alp\u00edzar, Andr\u00e9s; Lambert, Connor T.; Guillette, Lauren M. <a href=\"https:\/\/psycnet.apa.org\/doi\/10.1037\/com0000374\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1037\/com0000374<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Congratulations to Sofia Garrido Villegas (Universidad del Rosario, Colombia) who accepted an offer to start an MSc with the ACRG in September 2024<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Congratulations to Chandler Carr (Ohio Wesleyan University, USA) who accepted an offer to start an MSc with the ACRG in September 2024<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Lauren gave a talk at the Winter Animal Behavior Conference in Steamboat Springs, Colorado (USA)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\" id=\"2022\">2023<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">December<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Lauren gave a talk at the ASAB Winter Meeting 2023 in Edinburgh, UK<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Lauren gave a seminar talk for the Centre for Biological Diversity in the school of Biology at the University of St Andrews (UK)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">November<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Congrats to Ben and Lauren for publishing a paper in <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/birds-nests-express-their-unique-style-and-past-experiences-216799\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Conversation <\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Congrats to Dr. Ben Whittaker for their first (of many!) first-author publications from the ACRG! Zebra finches have style: Nest morphology is repeatable and associated with experience, iScience, <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.isci.2023.108194\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.isci.2023.108194<\/a> we are very proud that this paper has two <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ualberta.ca\/women-in-scholarship-engineering-science-technology\/programs\/summer-research-program\/index.html\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.ualberta.ca\/women-in-scholarship-engineering-science-technology\/programs\/summer-research-program\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">WISEST<\/a> highschool students and one undergraduate honours student as co-authors<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">September<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Congratulations to Andr\u00e9s for defending his PhD!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>We welcome Julia Self as an MSc student<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Congratulations to Julia Self for winning an NSERC CGS-M<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Congratulations to Julia Self for winning a Canadian Psychological Association Certificates of Academic Excellence for her honours thesis<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">July<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Congratulations to Connor for being selected to deliver a talk in the Allee Symposium at ABS 2023 in Portland, USA<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>We extend a warm welcome to Maryam Abdelhamed a<strong> <\/strong> WISEST Summer Research Program student from Queen Elizabeth High School, Alberta who will be working with us for 6 weeks<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ben and Connor presented at ABS 2023 in Portland, USA. Lauren went for moral support! <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">May<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>We welcome two MITACS Globalink Research Interns for 12 weeks: Nakul Wewhare from IISER Pune, India and Priya Binwal from IISER Kolkata, India<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">April<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Congratulations to Connor won (for the second year in a row!)  the &#8220;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/comparativecognition.org\/student_awards.php\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"http:\/\/comparativecognition.org\/student_awards.php\" target=\"_blank\">Best Publication by a Graduate Student in Comparative Cognition<\/a>&#8221; from the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/comparativecognition.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Comparative Cognition Society<\/a> for his paper: Lambert, C. T., Sahu, P. K., Sturdy, C. B., &amp; Guillette, L. M. (2022). Among-individual differences in auditory and physical cognitive abilities in zebra finches. <em>Learning &amp; Behavior<\/em>, <em>50<\/em>, 389-404. <a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.3758\/s13420-022-00520-w\">https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.3758\/s13420-022-00520-w<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Congratulations to Andr\u00e9s for winning the <a href=\"http:\/\/comparativecognition.org\/student_awards.php\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"http:\/\/comparativecognition.org\/student_awards.php\">Ron Weisman Outstanding Student Presentation Award<\/a> at the 30th International Conference on Comparative Cognition in Florida, USA.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">March<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Congrats to <a href=\"https:\/\/andrescamachoalpizar.weebly.com\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/andrescamachoalpizar.weebly.com\/\">Andr\u00e9s<\/a> who won a Kuczaj Memorial Travel Grant to attend the  <a href=\"http:\/\/comparativecognition.org\/\">30th International Conference on Comparative Cognition<\/a> in Florida, USA in April.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Congrats to Stefan Stanescu for winning an Undergraduate Research Initiative Summer Stipend and an NSERC USRA to continue their work this summer.   <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">January<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Congrats to Julia Self for being awarded a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ualberta.ca\/psychology\/give-to-psychology.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Clare Patershuk Travel Award<\/a> to present her ugrad honours thesis research at the <a href=\"http:\/\/comparativecognition.org\/\">30th International Conference on Comparative Cognition<\/a> in Florida, USA in April. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Congrats to <a href=\"https:\/\/andrescamachoalpizar.weebly.com\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/andrescamachoalpizar.weebly.com\/\">Andr\u00e9s<\/a> whose first-authored meta-analysis was published in the <em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.springer.com\/journal\/13423\" target=\"_blank\">Psychonomic Bulletin &amp; Review<\/a><\/em> From whom do animals learn? A meta\u2011analysis on model\u2011based social learning: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/rdcu.be\/c23NU\" target=\"_blank\">e\/c23NU<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Congrats to Lauren who is now the Editor-in-Chief of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.springer.com\/journal\/13420\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Learning &amp; Behavior<\/a><\/em>. \n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">2022<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">October<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Congrats to <a href=\"https:\/\/ctlambert.weebly.com\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/ctlambert.weebly.com\/\">Connor Lambert<\/a> for being awarded the prestigious <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ualberta.ca\/graduate-studies\/awards-and-funding\/scholarships\/killam.html\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.ualberta.ca\/graduate-studies\/awards-and-funding\/scholarships\/killam.html\" target=\"_blank\">Dorothy J Killam Memorial Graduate Prize<\/a>. Connor was also invited to give a talk about his PhD research at the Killam Awards &amp; Luncheon. \n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">September<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Welcome to three new undergraduate team members: Nicole Gerle, Harleen Kooner and Stefan Stanescu! Read about these folks on our <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.psych.ualberta.ca\/animal-cognition-ualberta\/wordpress\/?page_id=661\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/sites.psych.ualberta.ca\/animal-cognition-ualberta\/wordpress\/?page_id=661\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">People page<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">August<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/3L6Gso0\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"bit.ly\/3L6Gso0\" target=\"_blank\">Ben<\/a> and <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/andrescamachoalpizar.weebly.com\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/andrescamachoalpizar.weebly.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Andr\u00e9s<\/a> were awarded project from <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3PquesU\" target=\"_blank\">MITACS Globalink<\/a> to hire two international undergraduate research assistants in summer 2023, congrats! See the job advert here on our <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3PQIg7H\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3PQIg7H\" target=\"_blank\">opportunities page<\/a> (applications due 22 September 2022).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">July<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Lauren, C<a href=\"https:\/\/ctlambert.weebly.com\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/ctlambert.weebly.com\/\">onnor <\/a>and <a href=\"https:\/\/andrescamachoalpizar.weebly.com\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/andrescamachoalpizar.weebly.com\/\">Andr\u00e9s<\/a> presented at <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3vZt802\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3vZt802\" target=\"_blank\">ABS 2022 <\/a>in Costa Rica.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Deborah and Anna joined the team as <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3QkCR9l\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3QkCR9l\" target=\"_blank\">WISEST Summer Research Program<\/a> students. Read more about them on our <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3L6Gso0\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3L6Gso0\" target=\"_blank\">people page<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">June<\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Congrats to <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/andrescamachoalpizar.weebly.com\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/andrescamachoalpizar.weebly.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Andr\u00e9s<\/a> for being featured in the<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3Oynx83\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3Oynx83\" target=\"_blank\"> Psychology alumni and friends newsletter | Summer 2022<\/a> as the STAR student<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Lauren is named Editor-in-Chief of Learning &amp; Behavior, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.psychonomic.org\/page\/guillette\" target=\"_blank\">announcement here.<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Karen Yeung joined the team as a Summer 2022 <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mitacs.ca\/en\/programs\/globalink\/globalink-research-internship\" target=\"_blank\">Mitacs Globalink Research Intern<\/a>. Karen is an Ecology &amp; 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 <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/themanybirds.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">ManyBirds <\/a>project. Welcome to the team!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">May<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/ctlambert.weebly.com\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/ctlambert.weebly.com\/\">Connor Lambert<\/a> was awarded an <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3wBJPhC\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3wBJPhC\" target=\"_blank\">Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Scholarshi<\/a>p Congratulations, Connor!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Julia Self (URI &#8211; 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!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">April<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Lauren traveled to Indiana University to give a talk to the Integrative Study of Animal Behavior folks<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/ctlambert.weebly.com\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/ctlambert.weebly.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Connor<\/a>, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/andrescamachoalpizar.weebly.com\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/andrescamachoalpizar.weebly.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Andr\u00e9s<\/a> and <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/gopikabalasubramanian.weebly.com\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/gopikabalasubramanian.weebly.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gopika<\/a> all give talks at (virtual) CO3, the 29<sup>th <\/sup>International Conference on Comparative Cognition<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Connor won the inaugural &#8220;Best Publication by a Graduate Student in Comparative Cognition&#8221; from the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/comparativecognition.org\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"http:\/\/comparativecognition.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Comparative Cognition Society<\/a> for his paper: Lambert, CT, Guillette, LM (2021) The impact of environmental and social factors on learning: A meta-analysis. <em>Biological Reviews,<\/em> doi: 10.1002\/BRV.12783<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">March<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Lauren gave the Departmental Seminar in the Department of Psychology at the University of Alberta<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Congratulations to ACRG BSc Psychology Honours Thesis student Julia Self who was awarded  a <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ualberta.ca\/career-centre\/programs-services\/grants-funding\/greengoldgrant\/index.html\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.ualberta.ca\/career-centre\/programs-services\/grants-funding\/greengoldgrant\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Green &amp; Gold Student Leadership and Professional Development Grant<\/a> to attend the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/diversityconference.ca\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/diversityconference.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">2nd World Diversity in Leadership Conference<\/a> from June 20-24, 2022 in Edmonton, Alberta<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Lauren gave a seminar to the Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour Colloquium at McMaster University in Ontario, Canada<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Lauren gave a seminar to the Ecology, Evolution &amp; Behaviour group at McMaster University in Ontario, Canada<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>New paper by first-author and ACRG PhD <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/ctlambert.weebly.com\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/ctlambert.weebly.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Connor Lambert<\/a> wit co-authors from our Department of Psychology colleagues <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/prateeksahu.com\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/prateeksahu.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Prateek Sahu<\/a> and <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/songbirdneuroethologylab.weebly.com\/sturdy-bio.html\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/songbirdneuroethologylab.weebly.com\/sturdy-bio.html\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. Chris Sturdy<\/a> &#8220;Among-individual differences in auditory and physical cognitive abilities in zebra finches&#8221; 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