Leann Kanda

Associate Professor, Biology

Members of my research lab have presented at both regional and national undergraduate conferences.

Many of these students also helped with organization of NCUR when it was held at Ithaca in 2011.

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Falcone, E. (2014)  The brave little hamster. Presentation. National Conference for Undergraduate Research. U Kentucky, Lexington, KY. 

Moore, A. (2014)  To forage or not to forage: the perception of fear in Phodopus sungorus. Presentation. National Conference for Undergraduate Research. U Kentucky, Lexington, KY. 

Armstrong, M. (2013)  To be messy or not to be messy: a hamster's dilemma.  Presentation.  National Conference for Undergraduate Research.  U Wisconsin, LaCrosse, WI.

Ludington, C. (2013)  The cowardly hamster: Aggression and boldness in the dwarf hamster, Phodopus sungorus. Presentation. Eastern Colleges Science Conference, Providence College, Providence, RI.  Awarded Best Presentation for Organismic Biology.

Erickson, C. (2012). The role of trial length in measuring personality characteristics in the Siberian hamster, Phodopus sungorus. Poster. National Conference for Undergraduate Research. Weber State University, Ogden, UT.

O'Leary, D. (2012) The relationship between individual personality and everyday behavioral activity budget of eastern chipmunks, Tamias striatus. Presentation. National Conference for Undergraduate Research. Weber State University, Ogden, UT.

Edwards, E. (2011) Amphibian distribution: Environmental factors surrounding new mitigated wetlands. Poster. National Conference for Undergraduate Research. Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY.

Straley, K. (2011) Does personality change in different settings? Evaluating boldness in the Siberian dwarf hamster. Poster. National Conference for Undergraduate Research. Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY.

Veroline, A. (2011) Learning and performing wildlife research through the muskrat. National Conference for Undergraduate Research. Presentation. Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY.

Hatzel, J. (2011) The relationship between free-ranging space use patterns and captive open arena behavioral tests in muskrat (Ondatra zibethicus). Presentation. National Conference for Undergraduate Research. Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY.

Louon, L. (2011) Natural movement behavior in the eastern chipmunk (Tamias striatus). Poster. Northeast Regional Sigma Xi Undergraduate and Graduate Research Poster Conference, SUNY Stonybrook, Stonybrook, NY.

Louon, L. (2010) Got personality? Exploratory behavior in the Siberian dwarf hamster, Phodopus sungorus. Presentation. National Conference for Undergraduate Research. U. of Montana, Billings, MT.

Straley, K. (2010) Does personality change in different settings? Evaluating boldness in the Siberian dwarf hamster. Presentation. Eastern Colleges Science Conference. Pace University, Pleasantville, NY.

Novine, A. (2010) Hello, anyone home? A survey of Ithaca College’s wetland fauna. Poster. Eastern Colleges Science Conference. Pace University, Pleasantville, NY.