RESEARCH

My research is interdisciplinary and at the intersection of Behavioral Ecology and Education Research

COGNITIVE ECOLOGY OF ORCHID BEES

I study animal learning and my research explores animal learning theory in the context of pollination. More specifically, I study how tropical orchid bees use information on flower color to make decisions, and how these bees are evolutionarily prepared to learn some signal associations better than others.

SCIENCE INTEREST AND SCIENCE IDENTITY DEVELOPMENT

I study human learning and focus on the development of science interest in middle school students and science identity in high school students.

Research: Publications