Katie Edwards (’19) graduated with a degree in Biology. At Bucknell, she conducted research on both seabirds and capuchins (in Dr. Reggie Gazes’ lab). She was involved in many projects in the ZMBF lab, but presented a poster of her research about the willingness of kittiwake parents to buffer chicks from acute food shortages at the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology conference in Tampa, FL in January 2019. Katie was the lab’s resident Excel, line-editing and science-meme guru.
Abby Joseph (’19) graduated with honors in Biology and will be starting at Tufts University’s Physician’s Assistant program. Her honors thesis research identified the effects of Fadrozole (an aromatase inhibitor) on hormone production in embryonic chickens. Her research contributed to a manuscript about the effects of Fadrozole on immune function (Jeff Simkins, ’14), which was published in General and Comparative Endocrinology in 2020. Her motto in the lab was: “Keep calm ’til the sample’s gone”! Abby is now a Physician’s Assistant (PA) working in Orthopedic Surgery.
Mae Lacey (’18). Mae, an Animal Behavior major at Bucknell, currently works as GIS associate for the Defenders of Wildlife in Washington, D.C. She spent the 2017 summer field
season on Middleton Island, not only serving as a member of the core seabird field crew on the island and as Dr. Benowitz-Fredericks’s field assistant, but also conducting her own honors thesis research on effects of nest microclimate on behavior, physiology and reproductive success of black-legged kittiwakes. In addition to winning a Goldwater Fellowship in recognition of her exceptional potential as a scientist, Mae won a Sigma Xi award to support her research in 2017. As of 2022, Mae was a Conservations GIS Analyst at Defenders of Wildlife for several years, and is now a Data Scientist for Conservation Science Partners.
Nigel Ravida (’18). Nigel graduated with Cell Biology/Biochemistry degree. During the summer of 2016, Nigel served as an undergraduate research assistant in the Bucknell biology department where he 
co-authored the scientific publication “Segregation of the amphitellically attached univalent X chromosome in the spittlebug Philaenus spumarious (2017)”. Nigel was the recipient of the Bucknell George R. Faint Prize,which recognizes a student in liberal arts whose work during their first, sophomore and junior years is of generally high quality and gives promise to future excellence. Outside of the classroom, Nigel has served as the Vice President of Operations for Bucknell Student Government, the President of the Pre-Health Society and the Chair of Outreach for the Bucknell Black Student Union. As of 2022, Nigel is a medical student at the Penn State College of Medicine.
Paige Collins (’18). Paige graduated with a Cell Biology/Biochemistry, and is currently a clinical research supervisor at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. While at Bucknell, she presented a poster at 
the Kalman Research Symposium in 2017 for comparative genomics work on fruit fly contiguous sequences as part of a computer research-based course taught by Dr. Le Paliulis, and delivered an oral presentation of the lab’s work on the effects of acute food shortages on kittiwake chick growth and survival at Kalman in 2018. In addition to scientific interests, she was also a member of the Chi Omega Fraternity and worked with the organization to raise money for Make.A.Wish Foundation. Paige works in clinical research at Memorial Sloan-Kettering.