Lisa Hibden, M.S.program in Biological Sciences. Thesis topic: Effect of the invasive plant species Triadia sebifera on soil and litter food webs.

Kathy Law, Ph.D. program in Conservation Biology. Dissertation topic: Effect of the invasive plant species Triadia sebifera on breeding and winter resident bird communities.

Zack Leman, M.S.program in Biological Sciences. Thesis topic: Linking nutrition and demography in the spider Kukulkania hibernalis.

Alejandro Lopera, Ph.D. program in Conservation Biology. Dissertation topic: Role of dung beetles in tropical forest regeneration.

Previous Graduate Students in the Howard Labs:

June Galloway, M.S. December 2002. Thesis title: A study of food-related agonistic behavior in a captive high genetic content wolf pack and a captive wolf-dog hybrid pack. Currently Research Wildlife Biologist, USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Albuquerque, NM.

Chris Florane, M.S. December 2002. Thesis title: Intra- and inter-colonial aggression in the Formosan subterranean termite, Coptotermes formosanus (Shiraki): Analysis of possible chemical, genetic, and environmental influences. Winner of the Dee Saunders Dundee Memorial Graduate Student Scholarship in Organismal Biology. Currently Staff scientist, USDA Southern Regional Research Center

Randy Ford, M.S. May 2002. Thesis title: Chinese- and Indian-origin Rhesus macaques - Evidence for a lack of strain differences. Winner of the Dee Saunders Dundee Memorial Graduate Student Scholarship in Organismal Biology. Currently Ph.D. candidate in Biological Anthropology and Anatomy, Duke University.

Stacey Subervielle, M. S. December 2000. Thesis title: Effects of light and moisture availability on survival and performance of Sapium sebiferum seedlings in a Louisiana bottomland forest. Currently high school biology teacher, St. Tammany Parish, LA.

Helen Hull-Sanders, M.S. August 1999. Thesis title: Effects of leaf-cutter ants (Atta colombica Guerin) on understory structure in a Neotropical forest. Currently Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Field Station.

Jayme Necaise, M.S. August 1999. Thesis title: Division of labor within the foraging caste in the leafcutting ant Acromyrmex echinatior. Currently Curator, Audubon Nature Institute New Orleans Insectarium.

Marceau Ratard, M.S. August 1999. Thesis title: Effects of hydrology on growth of baldcypress seedlings (Taxodium distichum). Currently Instructor, Delgado Community College, New Orleans, LA.