VERNA MILLER CASE

Academic Background:

• B.S., M.S. and Ph. D. The Pennsylvania State University
• Assistant, University of Georgia at SREL, Garnett, South Carolina and Ossabaw Island
• Visiting Scholar, University of Aberdeen, Scotland
• Visiting Scholar, MIT/Harvard Medical Consortium

Professional Organizations: Animal Behavior Society, American Society for the Advancement of Science, Hastings Center, Society for Health and Human Values, National Science Teachers Association

Recent Publications:

• Semones, J.D. and V.M. Case. (In preparation). Hunting ability in visually-impaired and non-impaired Eastern screech owls.
• Case, V.M. 1986. Breeding cycle aggression in zebra finches. Aggressive Behavior 12(5):337-48.
• Sherrill, D.M. and V.M. Case. 1980. Winter home ranges of 4 clans of red-cockaded woodpeckers in the Carolina Sandhills. Wilson Bull 92(3):369-75.
• Case, V.J. and H.B. Graves. 1978. Functional vs. other types of imprinting and sensitive periods in Gallus chicks. Behavioral Biol 23:433-45.

Current Research Interests:

Reproductive behavior of zebra finches; social and territorial behavior of mockingbirds; social behavior of Eastern gray squirrels; behavior of birds of prey; issues in the new reproductive technologies; teaching methodologies in science.

Current Teaching Interests:

Animal Behavior, Reproductive Ethics, Women and medicine