Manuscripts Submitted!

  • Jan 2021 - Lauren, Mayte, Kelly & Sarah submitted the unequal Assurance Game to the American Journal of Primatology

  • December 2020 - Gill, Sarah and colleagues submitted the cumulative cultural evolution paper to JEP: Animal Learning and Cognition

  • December 2020 - Laurent and Sarah submitted the social/non-social ephemeral task paper to JCP

  • Nov 2020 - Sarah submitted book review to Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture

  • October 2020 - Gill, Sarah, and colleagues submitted cumulative culture paper to JEP: Animal Learning & Cognition

  • August 2020 - Mackenzie submitted the positive affect paper to the Journal of Comparative Psychology

  • August 2020 - Sarah and colleagues submitted a revised innovation paper to the Journal of Comparative Psychology

  • July 2020 - Mackenzie submitted the positive affect paper to Animal Behavior

  • July 2020 - Mackenzie submitted the positive affect paper to Animal Behavior

  • July 2020 - Eyal, Heather and Sarah re-submitted legal costs paper to PLOS ONE

  • June 2020 - Sarah re-submitted virtual worlds paper to Scientific Reports

  • June 2020 - Sarah submitted prosocial parrot paper to Learning and Behavior

  • May 2020 - Julia submitted sunk cost paper to Scientific Reports

  • May 2020 - Julia submitted Decoy paper to Bio Letters

  • April 2020 - Julia submitted her review to Animal Cognition

  • April 2020 - Sarah submitted comparative econ review to Phil Trans

  • April 2020 - Sarah submitted cost recommendations paper to J Empirical Legal Studies

  • March 2020 - Sarah submitted innovation paper to JCP

  • January 2020 - Julia submitted modeling paper to Cognitive Research


Manuscripts Accepted!

  • November 2020 - Julia’s sunk cost paper from her dissertation was accepted to Scientific reports!

  • November 2020 - Sarah’s book review was accepted in Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture.

  • October 2020 - Laurent’s, Sarah’s, and Zoo Atlanta colleagues’ paper on the dichotomous choice task in orangutans, gorillas and drills was accepted at AJP!

  • October 2020 - Sarah & colleagues’ animal innovation paper accepted at JCP

  • August 2020 - Sarah & colleague’s virtual worlds paper accepted at Scientific Reports

  • July 2020 - Sarah’s prosocial parrot paper accepted at Learning and Behavior

  • July 2020 - Eyal, Heather and Sarah’s legal costs paper accepted in PLOS ONE

  • July 2020 - Sarah’s evolution of economics paper accepted in Philosophical Transactions

  • June 2020 - Olivia, Marcela and Sarah’s capuchin sex differences paper accepted in The Journal of Comparative Neuroscience

  • June 2020 - Sarah’s anthropomorphism paper accepted in Neuroscience and Biobehavioral reviews

  • May 2020 - Sarah’s endowment effect paper accepted in Evolution and Human Behavior

  • March 2020 - Julia’s, Sarah’s, and their zoo colleagues’ lizard long term memory paper accepted into Journal of Herpetology

  • January 2020 - Sarah’s human economic system roots paper accepted into Neuroscience and Biobehavioral reviews


Chapters published!

  • December 2020 - Gill and Sarah’s chapter was published in Chimpanzees in Context

  • December 2020 - Sarah’s comparative evolutionary psychology paper was published in The SAGE Handbooks of Evolutionary Psychology

  • December 2020 - Sarah’s primate political science chapter in Crossing Peacebuilding Paradigms was published

  • Winter 2020 - Marcela & Sarah’s capuchin chapter in Behavioral Biology of Laboratory Animals goes to press

  • Winter 2020 - Mackenzie, Julia and Sarah’s experimental games paper in Handbook of Experimental Game Theory FINALLY goes to press


Grants submitted!

  • October 2020 - Jhonatan submitted an NSF GRFP!

  • September 2020 - Mackenzie and Olivia BOTH submitted GSU dissertation fellowships

  • August 2020 - Olivia submitted a DIG!!

  • July 2020 - Missy Painter, Marcela and Sarah submitted a Leakey Foundation grant

  • May 2020 - Meg and Olivia submitted Rumbaugh Fellowship applications

  • April 2020 - Jhonatan submitted the SREB Doctoral Scholars Program Fellowship


Grants/Fellowships funded!

  • December 2020 - Mackenzie won the GSU Dissertation Award!

  • August 2020 - Stella won the 2020 Science ATL Communication Fellowship!

  • July 2020 - Jhonatan’s Southern Regional Education Board Doctoral Fellowship is funded!!

  • July 2020 - Eyal, Heather and Sarah’s costs of incarceration grant funded by the Charles Koch Foundation

  • March 2020 - Sarah and Marcela’s Taboga grant through TWCF is funded!

  • Spring 2020 - Marcela’s Taboga grant through NSF is funded!

  • Fall 2019 - Sarah and Marcela’s NSF is funded!


Talks given!

  • January 2021 - Sarah gave a talk to the NIH Bioethics group

  • November 2020 - Sarah gave a talk for The University of Neuchâtel

  • October 2020 - Sarah films her ted talk

  • October 2020 - Sarah talks about econ games for the Gruter meeting

  • October 2020 - Stella talks about the cockroaches for the community psych conference

  • January 2020 - Marcela gives a talk at Emory Department of Anthropology

  • Spring - Summer 2020 - COVID…


Presentations given!

  • Spring - Summer 2020 - COVID…


Milestones!

  • January 2021 - Meg sucessfully proposed her dissertation!

  • December 2020 - Olivia successfully proposed her dissertation!

  • June 2020 - Mackenzie successfully proposed her dissertation!

  • May 2020 - Julia successfully defended her dissertation!

  • January 2020 - Meg successfully completed her General Exam!

  • January 2020 - Olivia successfully completed her General Exam!


Other major accomplishments

  • July 2020 - Julia accepts a job at Audible.com as a data scientist!

  • May 2020 - Laurent accepts a job at Pittsburg State University Department of Psychology!

  • June 2020 - Sarah’s book goes into production

  • May 2020 - Julia starts the Insight Data Fellowship program!

  • April 2020 - Marcela accepts a job at Emory Department of Anthropology!

  • March 2020 - Kate accepts a job at the Florida Institute of Technology Department of Psychology!


Major Lab Kudos

  • November 2020 - Thanks to Jhonatan for covering five extra days of room 3 when Meg was traveling over Thanksgiving!

  • November 2020 - Thanks to Matt for jumping in to help when Mackenzie needed to be out for her Grandfather


Outreach/Service

  • November 2020 - Stella and Sarah do roach outreach at Hess Academy

  • June 2020 - Jhonatan hosts the LASSO undergraduate research session on Instagram