Quinnipiac Chapter of Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Honor Society presents Sigma Xi Distinguished Lecturer Dr. Dustin Rubenstein

 Tuesday, April 21 at 12:30 PM on Burt Kahn Court (RWA 145)

• Quinnipiac Chapter of Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Honor Society presents Sigma Xi Distinguished Lecturer Dr. Dustin Rubenstein Thomas Hunt Morgan Professor of Conservation Biology, Columbia University 
•  “Collaboration in a Changing World”

• Dustin Rubenstein is the Thomas Hunt Morgan Professor of Conservation Biology in the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology at Columbia University. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a Fellow of the American Ornithological Society, and has been recognized by the National Academy of Sciences as both a Kavli Fellow for his research accomplishments and as an Education Fellow in the Sciences for his innovation in STEM teaching. In recognition of his research accomplishments, Rubenstein has received awards from the Animal Behavior Society, the American Ornithologists’ Union, the Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology, and the University of Michigan. He has been acknowledged for his teaching, scholarship, and mentoring by Columbia University with a Lenfest Distinguished Faculty Award and as a Provost’s Senior Faculty Teaching Scholar, as well as by the Society of Columbia Graduates with a Great Teacher Award. Rubenstein’s research takes an integrative approach to understand why complex animal societies form and how organisms cope with environmental change through studies that combine behavior, ecology, and evolution with those of the underlying molecular, neural, and neuroendocrine mechanisms. He has studied a variety of animals, including reptiles, mammals, birds, crustaceans, and insects on every continent except Antarctica. He is the author of nearly 150 publications and the market-leading textbook Animal Behavior. Rubenstein currently serves as the Specialty Chief Editor for the Evolutionary Ecology of Social Behavior Section of Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, as well as an Associate Editor for Science Advances and Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. He was previously on the editorial boards of Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Behavioral Ecology, PLOS ONE, and F1000Research, and has been a guest editor for Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, Behavioral Processes, and Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B.