Electronic copies of full reports are also available upon request, and with permission of author.

Program in progress. Abstracts will be posted in August.

Ainsworth, Krystle (Spelman College). Mentors: Kristal Cain and Ellen Ketterson (Indiana University). How does testosterone in development affect adult female aggression?

Billak, Brittany (University of Virginia). Mentor: Tami Ranson (University of Virginia). Factors influencing the distribution of the invasive earthworm Lumbricus terrestris in Southern Appalachia.

Butterfield, R. Eileen (Univerity of Texas, Austin). Mentor: Vince Formica (Swarthmore College). Temporal niche construction in Forked Fungus Beetles.

Castillo, Dean (Cornel University). Mentors: Michele Dudash and Charles Fenster (Univerity of Maryland). Developing a mutualism: The potential role a nursery pollinator plays in the metapopulation dynamics of a host plant.

Dibble, Chris (Dennison College). Mentor: Eric Leibgold (University of Virginia). Adaptive significance of color polymorphism in the terrestrial woodland salamander, Plethodon cinereus.

Jacobsen, Deidra (University of Nebraska, Lincoln). Mentors: Laura Galloway and Lindsay Dierkes (University of Virginia). Changes in reproductive allocation in response to leaf damage and pollen limitation in Spiderwort (Tradescantia ohiensis).

McLeod, Hayley (University of South Carolina, Columbia). Mentor: Kristine Grayson (University of Virginia). The role of maternal effects and larval environment on developmental plasticity in a pond breeding amphibian.

Meyers, Camille (St. Mary's College of Maryland). Mentor: Erica Crespi (Vassar College). The effect of moisture on reproductive success and brooding behavior in red-backed salamanders (Plethodon cinereus).

Ortiz, Vanessa (University of Puerto Rico). Mentors: William Resetarits and Christopher Binckley (University of Southampton and Old Dominion University). Desmognathus salamanders' distribution along opposing vertical gradients of biotic and abiotic factors.

Redmond, Miranda (University of California, Berkeley). Mentors: Henry Wilbur and Becky Wilbur (University of Virginia). Recruitment and dominance of Quercus alba and Quercus rubra in a previous Oak-Chestnut forest from the 1980s to present. 

Shapiro, Jeff (University of Georgia). Mentors: Dustin Reichard and Ellen Ketterson (Indiana University). Male song performance correlates to single-season and lifetime reproductive success in Dark-Eyed Juncos (Junco hyemalis).