Laney Hayward Nute
Conservation Behaviorist
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Life moves really fast as a doctoral graduate student and scientist! Below, I share exciting news and updates and a tally of awarded grants, presentations, and mentees to remind myself of how far I have come in this journey. I also hope my updates share opportunities with those of similar eligibility who may stumble across my website, so please reach out if you have any questions!
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Mentees
5/1/2025 Awarded the University of Mississippi Center for Biodiversity and Conservation Research summer research grant!
4/27/2025 Awarded the University of Mississippi Biology Department Georgia St. Amand Laboratory Teaching Scholarship!
3/20/2025 Guest lecture in Conservation Biology at the University of Mississippi on Ex Situ Conservation. Wonderful class with great discussions!
3/19/2025 Awarded Animal Behavior Society Student Research Grant for my project "Adaptive Consequences of Consistent Behavioral Differences Developed in Captive Breeding of Attwater’s Prairie Chicken"!
3/7/2025 Guest lecture in Non-STEM Majors Interdisciplinary Science Course at the University of Mississippi on Human Impacts on the Environment. Great group discussions and shared experiences from students across all walks of life!
3/6/2025 Co-authored manuscript titled "Balancing ecotourism and wildlife management through a conservation behavior approach" published in Conservation Science and Practice! https://doi.org/10.1111/csp2.13306
2/13/2025 Panel member for "Beyond the Professoriate: Graduate Student Academic and Non-Academic Resources" at the University of Mississippi. I am a huge champion for the Beyond the Professoriate platform and had the amazing opportunity to trial it over the 2024 summer interim. The graduate school held this panel to answer student questions on how this platform could help prepare them for their careers and I enjoyed being able to share my experience and answer questions.
12/12/2024 Attended the "Bird Conservation on Private Lands - a US State Perspective" virtual engagement session put on by Road to Recovery.
12/4/2024 Attended the "Leading Constructive Conversations in Conservation" virtual engagement session put on by the Society for Conservation Biology North America.
10/13 - 18/2024 Attended the Statistical Quantification of Individual Differences workshop held in Montreal. I was fortunate enough to receive a fellowship to attend this workshop and met so many helpful statisticians and graduate students studying research questions similar to mine. This workshop was extremely beneficial to my own statistical analyses and I made some amazing connections that I hope to carry forward in my career.
9/18/2024 Participated in the University of Mississippi Python workshop, where I formally learned some Python basics to complement what I previously taught myself.
7/20 - 23/2022 Attended the 2022 ABS Conference in Costa Rica. I assisted in the ecotourism workshop put on by the Animal Behavior Society Conservation Committee. I also presented a poster titled "Behavioral Stress Responses of Turkey Chicks (Meleagris gallopavo) to Parasitic Infection at Differing Ages". It was my first time in Costa Rica and I thoroughly enjoyed meeting like-minded individuals and experiencing the local culture.
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