Stephanie G. Wright

I am currently a Ph.D. Candidate at the Ohio State University. In general my research interests include the behavioral ecology of learned behaviors and how learning influences population- and species-wide patterns of behavior. I am also interested in the behavioral causes and consequences of hybridization. My dissertation work focuses on song learning and song variation in Black-capped and Carolina chickadees and their hybrids.

Getting students excited about biology is my other academic passion. To do this I employ active and hands-on learning techniques to get students engaged with biology... to get students to do science instead of just reading about the products of it. To that aim, I am enrolled in the Graduate Minor in College and University Teaching at OSU and am participating in OSU's Preparing Future Faculty Program. In the 2014-2015 school year I was the Biology Teaching Fellow at Metro Early College High School, helping to design and implement biology curriculum for high school students in an accelerated, STEM-focused setting.