Name: Jamie Troupe

Title of Program: Animal Behavior: Ethology and Cognition

E-mail Address: jtroupe1@utk.edu

Hometown: Tullahoma, TN

Year: Senior

Anticipated Graduation Date: May 2009 (yay!)

Description of Program: My program is intended to provide me the best possible preparation for graduate school. I have combined courses from ecology, psychology, philosophy and statistics to create an Animal Behavior major. In addition to these courses, I have an intense research emphasis.

Departmental Emphases: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Psychology

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Susan Riechert, EEB

Plans after graduation (career, graduate/professional school, etc.): I am currently applying to ecology doctoral programs across the country.

Other Academic Interests: learning, genetics

Prior Enrollment at Other Colleges or Universities:

Study Abroad:

Research Experiences or Internships: Research Experiences for Undergraduates, summer 2006, 2007, 2008

Part-time employment; Hobbies; Campus Clubs/Activities: In my copious amounts of free time, I teach swing dance lessons.

Additional Information: My senior thesis centers around the agonistic behavior of black widow spiders, particularly what influences those behaviors.