Brian Haney

Former Ph.D. student in Animal Behavior (worked on a project in bio ed)

My dissertation research is on how and why unrelated ant queens form cooperative groups. There are about a dozen ant and termite species that have cooperative queens, but virtually nothing is known about how these associations function or the selection pressures that have led to their evolution. I study the reproductive output of multiqueen colonies to better understand the costs and benefits of cooperation between unrelated individuals. 

I am completing a project in the Biology Education Research Lab related to instructor immediacy, specifically the impact of an instructor using names in a high enrollment active learning classroom.   

About me: I received a B.S. in Biology and a minor in Environmental Studies from Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. After graduation I spent a year teaching English and Science to kids in Beijing, China and did some biological survey jobs in the states for another year before starting graduate school. 

Publication:

Cooper KM, Haney B, Krieg A, Brownell SE.  What's in a name? The importance of students perceiving an instructor knows their names in a high enrollment biology classroom.  CBE Life Sciences Education. March 2017.

brhaney [at] asu.edu