Discover Magazine Interviews Burghardt, Pruitt- UPDATE
The June 2017 issue of Discover Magazine has an article on play behavior in non-mammalian animals. Called “The Play’s the Thing,” it features interviews with Professor Gordon Burghardt and alumnus Jonathan Pruit (PhD 2010, Riechert Lab, now on the faculty at UC-Santa Barbara). The article references a paper published in 2012 that was written by Burghardt, Pruitt, and Riechert.
The article is now available online. Tennessee Today also has a story about the article
Blanket of Spiderwebs
Susan Riechert was quoted in a Washington Post article this week, to reassure residents about the harmless aggregation of thousands of small spiders and the resulting half-mile-long spider web that appeared in North Memphis, TN.
Two Awards for Chuang
Angela Chuang (Riechert Lab) has recently received awards from both the American Philosophical Society AND the National Geographic Society Young Explorer program to fund her field work in South Africa and Cuba. Congratulations Angela!