Letter of Recommendation
If you would like to request a letter of recommendation, please read and submit a request through:
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Policies
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Initiatives
We are involved in a variety of committees, initiatives, and trainings across the University and at scientific societies. Please reach out if you would like our assistance in any way. Publicly accessible documents:
Graduate College inclusive admissions criteria and attributes and evaluation practices 2021
Drafted by the Graduate Inclusive Admissions Committee
Department of Biology faculty search documents 2021
Drafted by the Organismal Conservation Biologist faculty search committee
College of Natural and Applied Sciences Anti-Racism Action Plan 2020
Drafted by the CNAS Diversity Council and accepted by CNAS Dean Tamera Jahnke.
Cultural Competency Workshop (Animal Behavior Society 2019)
Original 90 minute workshop organized by Cameron Jones, Montrai Spikes, and Avery Russell for the 2019 meeting of the Animal Behavior Society. Talks by Zuleyma Tang-Martinez and Erica Westerman, who also served as panelists alongside Patricia Brennan, Rebecca Calisi, Aimee Dunlap, and Christopher Schell. [open access resources]
Outreach Training
PowerPoint for teaching how to perform outreach
Handout for communicating outreach
Handout for designing outreach activities
Data
Updated table of bee taxa that sonicate flowers for pollen
Original table published in Cardinal, S., Buchmann, S.L., Russell, A.L. 2018. The evolution of floral sonication, a pollen foraging behavior used by bees (Anthophila). Evolution. doi:
Updated table of pollen weight per flower for entomophilous species
Original table published in Russell, A.L. & Papaj, D.R. 2016. Artificial pollen dispensing flowers and feeders for bee behaviour experiments. Journal of Pollination Ecology.
Updated table of non poricidal plant species sonicated by bees
Original table published in Russell, A.L., Buchmann, S.L., Papaj, D.R. 2017. How a generalist bee achieves high efficiency of pollen collection on diverse floral resources. Behavioral Ecology.
Data Tools
Spreadsheet to calculate and plot visual stimuli in bee color space [coming soon]
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