Comuzzie inspires students with love of science
by Lane Tait
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Fascinated by animal behavior, she grew up to earn a B.S. degree in
biology at the University of Texas at Austin,
a master’s degree in biology at Southwest Texas State University, and
her doctorate in zoology at Texas A&M
University. Her thesis was on Central Texas sparrow calls and her
dissertation detailed her research on sea turtle communication and
behavior.
Comuzzie’s post-doctoral work at the University of
Kansas extended models of animal alarm to human vocalizations. Then,
at the Southwest Foundation for
Biomedical Research, she studied baboon vocalizations as a measure of
their psychological well being. Now serving as dean of Schreiner’s
Trull School of Sciences and Mathematics, Comuzzie has taught biology
at SU for 10 years. But her enthusiasm for science reaches beyond
the university students she instructs every day. Back, in fact, to
girls like the one she used to be. more
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