Fred C. Dyer, Professor, Ph.D. 1984 , Princeton University, Full Vita
Matthew Collett, NRSA Post-doctoral Fellow, D.Phil. 1999, University of Oxford
Current Graduate Students
Frank Bartlett, B.S., Saginaw Valley State University
Project: Sequential Decision-Making and Landmark
Learning
e-mail: bartle47@msu.edu
web: http://www.msu.edu/user/bartle47/frankspage.htm
John Townsend-Mehler, B.A., Earlham College, B.S., Montana State
University
Project: TBA
email: townse96@pilot.msu.edu
Cindy Wei, B.S., Cornell University
Project: Active Vision and Landmark Learning
in Honey Bees
e-mail: weicynth@msu.edu
web: http://www.msu.edu/user/weicynth
Former Students
Puja Batra, Ph.D. 2002
Ph.D. Dissertation: Pollination Ecology in
Asian Honey Bees
email: batrapuj@msu.edu
Current position: Program Manager, Center for Applied
Biodiversity Sciences, Conservation International, Washington, DC
Elizabeth Capaldi, Ph.D. 1996
Ph.D. Dissertation: Acquisition of Visual Spatial
Memory: Orientation and Reorientation Flights in the Honey Bee
Current position: Assistant Professor of Biology,
Bucknell University
e-mail: ecapaldi@bucknell.edu
Karen Cebra, M.S., 1990
M.S. Thesis: Foraging for cryptic prey by
domestic fowl: investigations of the role of search images
Current position: Exhibits Director, Explorit Science
Center, Davis, CA
Jeff Dickinson, Ph.D., 1997
Ph.D. Dissertation: How Do Bees Compute the Position
of the Sun? Alternative Representations
Current position: Programmer, Zeneca Pharmaceuticals,
Wilmington, DE
Dina Grayson, M.S., 2001
Project: Foraging Decisions and Dance Communication
in Bees
Current position: Biological Sciences Technician,
USDA Agricultural Research Service, Fort Pierce, FL
e-mail: grayson4@msu.edu
web: http://www.msu.edu/user/grayson4