Kay Holekamp Laboratory

Kay was one of 4 MSU faculty elected as a AAAS fellow for 2012. She was featured on MSUToday's FACULTY CONVERSATIONS section describing the award. http://msutoday.msu.edu/news/2012/faculty-conversations-kay-holekamp

 

Kay and the other 2012 fellows will be recognized for their contributions to science and technology at the Fellows Forum to be held on 16 February 2013 during the AAAS Annual Meeting in Boston, Massachusetts

 

Read more about the The American Association for the Advancement of Science at http://www.aaas.org/aboutaaas/

 

Kay was awarded the Smith College Medal by her alma mater September 2012. She is one of five who will be celebrated during Smith College "Rally day" 2013. For more information about the medal and medalists, see http://www.smith.edu/newsoffice/releases/NewsOffice12-044.html

 

For more about the Smith College Medal, see http://www.smith.edu/events/rallyday_medal.php

 

Kay's is interviewed for episodes #32 and #33 of the variationselectioninheritance (VSI) podcast, a podcast about science funded by the NSF BEACON Center.

Former PhD student Jenn Smith was a fellow of the MSU graduate school while she was here.  The grad school has profiled here and mentioned here as a "featured fellow" on the MSU "support for students" blog:

 

Support For Students Feature on Jenn

 

Kay Holekamp was invited to write blog posts to the New York Times "Scientist At Work" series.

BBC News featured research by 2010 PhD Jennifer Smith, Kay Holekamp, and others regarding their work on spotted hyenas joining forces to cooperatively form a coalition. The article, published in the journal Behavioral Ecology, explains how these animals follow a surprisingly complex set of rules when making decisions about cooperation and how doing so provides them with an evolutionary advantage.

See images by doctoral candidate Kate Shaw in the BBC photo essay: 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8485653.stm

Smith, et al, article in Behavioral Ecology:
Evolutionary forces favoring intragroup coalitions among spotted hyenas and other animals

 

BBC came to the Mara and produced the following short film about our research and hyenas. It aired in 2008 as part of the BBC's "Big Cat" series.

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For this and other videos about Lions, Hyenas and other wildlife in the Masai Mara, visit the BBC Big Cat series video archive http://www.bbc.co.uk/bigcat/video/

The MSU Board of Trustees has formally announced that Kay Holekamp has been named a University Distinguished Professor - the highest honor that the university can bestow on a member of its faculty.

 

http://news.msu.edu/staff-faculty/story/6539/

 

The title of University Distinguished Professor (UDP) recognizes outstanding achievement in teaching, research, and public service.