News
04/03/2013Jason Gaudette gave a great webinar on his thesis work today! You can access his presentation by clicking
here.
03/19/2013Congratulations to Alyssa Wheeler for passing her Prelim exam and becoming a Ph.D. candidate!
03/01/2013Congratulations to Jonathan Barchi whose paper "Spatial memory and stereotypy of flight paths by big brown bats in cluttered surroundings" just got published in JEB, including an
inside JEB article!
10/29/2012Congratulations to Jason Gaudette and Laura Kloepper for winning first prize in the Gallery of Acoustics presented at the 164th ASA Meeting in Kansas City, MO.
10/22-26/2012Jim Simmons, Andrea Simmons and Michaela Warnecke attended and presented at the 164th ASA Meeting in Kansas City, MO.
10/19-21/2012Michaela Warnecke attended the first ASA School 2012 in Kansas City, MO.
10/13-18/2012Alyssa Wheeler presented her work at the Society for Neuroscience Meeting in New Orleans, LA.
08/12-17/2012Hiroshi Riquimaroux, Shizuko Hiryu and their students visited our lab to do some flights with
Eptesicus fuscus in our new flightroom!
08/05-10/2012Mary Bates'
research on bat target detection is published in the JEB Highlights 2011.
08/05-10/2012Congratulations to Laura Kloepper for receiving the Best Student Poster Prize at ICN!
08/05-10/2012James and Andrea Simmons (co-chair of the program committee), along with Erika Alexander, Ava Lovato, Michaela Warnecke and Laura Kloepper presented at the
Tenth International Congress of Neuroethology.
07/16/2012The Lafayette College Magazine published
an article on James Simmons, his work and the LEARN program at Lafayette college.
07/01/2012Congratulations to Laura Kloepper and Erika Alexander for winning first and second prize for Best Student Paper in Animal Bioacoustics at the ASA Meeting in Hong Kong!
05/23/2012James Simmons and Jason Gaudette speak at the ONR Conference in Washington DC
05/13-18/2012James Simmons, Alyssa Wheeler and Erika Alexander are presenting at the ASA Meeting in Hong Kong
04/04/2012
Erika Alexander has been named a graduate fellow for the NSF GK-12 fellowship.
04/02/2012
Laura Kloepper (PhD, University of Hawaii 2012) has been awarded an NSF postdoctoral research fellowship in biology. Laura will join the Simmons lab this summer.
03/30/2012
Lab alumns Victoria Flores and Jeff Knowles were awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowships. Victoria will be attending the University of Chicago and Jeff will be attending UCSF for graduate studies.
03/2012
Simmons and Flores' 2011 paper published in
J. Comp. Physiol.
11/28/2011Simmons and Flores' manuscript on representation of particle motion in the tadpole's medulla accepted for publication in Journal of Comparative Physiology A.
11/12-16/2011 Simmons Lab members present posters at the Society for Neuroscience Annual Conference:
Jeff Knowles - Cochlear Microphonics
11/1/2011 Jeff Knowles speaks at the JB Johnston Club Annual Meeting in Washington DC
10/28/2011
Jim and Andrea Simmons present invited talks at the 2011 International Symposium on Animal Physiology and Behavior Adaptation in Taipei, Taiwan
07/28/2011
Bates, Simmons and Zorikov publish in
Science their finding on harmonic beamforming by big brown bats.
Has also been carried in the press:
Scientific American
NSF News (With Video)
Brown Press Release
Review by Brock Fenton in Science
08/01-05/2011Jim Simmons gives an invited talk at the 3rd Symposium on Acoustic Communication by Animals, Cornell University
07/26/2011Simmons Lab featured on NBC 10 WJAR. Do you have
bats in your house?
07/18-21/2011 Andrea Simmons presents new rheotaxis data at the International Congress on Flow Sensing in Air and Water, Bonn Germany
07/15/2011 Schmidt, Knowles and Simmons publish in J. Exp. Biol.
07/2011
Judith A. Chapman, Ph.D. 2007, accepts position at University of Kansas Medical School
05/23-27/2011Simmons Lab presentions at ASA meeting in Seattle:
James Simmons
Andrea Simmons
Mary Bates
Jason Gaudette
Jeff Knowles
05/02-09/2011Field trip to Belize
03/23/2011Mary Bates defends PHD Thesis
