K. Supriya
Postdoctoral scholar
Research interests: Broadly, I am interested in understanding the causes for under-representation of women and people of color in STEM and finding ways to make scientific research community more diverse and inclusive. More specifically, I am interested in studying how teaching practices and assessments at the undergraduate level contribute to the problem of under-representation and how we need to modify our teaching practices.
About me: I grew up in New Delhi, India and came to U.S. to pursue a PhD in Evolutionary Biology at the University of Chicago. For my PhD, I studied competition between birds and ants for arthropod prey and nesting spaces in the eastern Himalaya. Over the course of my PhD, I became interested in inclusive pedagogy and the field of education research.
Mentoring: Brian Cruz, Kaela Villegas, and Puja Chhetri
Publications:
Barnes ME, Supriya K, Dunlop HM, Hendrix TM, Sinatra GM, Brownell SE. Relationships between the Religious Backgrounds and Evolution Acceptance of Black and Hispanic Biology Students. CBE Life Sciences Education. In press.
Schumm, M., White, A. E., Supriya, K., & Price, T. 2019 Ecological limits as the driver of bird species richness patterns along the east Himalayan elevational gradient. American Naturalist. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1086/707665
Supriya, K., Moreau, C., Sam, K., Price, T. 2019 Global analysis of elevational gradients in arthropod abundance. Frontiers of biogeography. 11(2), e43104
Schumm, M., Edie, S.M., Collins, K.S., Gómez-Bahamón, V., Supriya, K., White, A.E., Price, T.D. and Jablonski, D., 2019 Common latitudinal gradients in functional richness and functional evenness across marine and terrestrial systems. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 286(1908), p.20190745.
Supriya, K., Rowe, M., Price, T. 2019 Trade-offs between pre-copulatory and post-copulatory investment generate positive correlations across species. Behavioral Ecology. 30(2), 341-347
Supriya, K., Price, T. D., & Rowe, M. 2018 Positive correlations between pre‐and post‐copulatory sexual traits in warblers. Journal of Avian Biology. 49(5), jav-01694
Supriya, K., Rowe, M., Laskemoen, T., Mohan, D., Price, T., Lifjeld, J. 2016 Early diversification of sperm size in the evolutionary history of the Old World leaf warblers (Phylloscopidae). Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 29(4), 777-8
Tomašových, A., Kennedy, J.D., Betzner, T.J., Kuehnle, N.B., Edie, S., Kim, S., Supriya, K., White, A.E., Rahbek, C., Huang, S. and Price, T.D. 2016. Unifying latitudinal gradients in range size and richness across marine and terrestrial systems. Proc. R. Soc. B 283(1830) 20153027
Supriya, K., Mohan, D., Vasudevan, K. 2012. Availability of nesting habitat may not drive colony formation in Chestnut-headed bee-eaters Merops leschenaulti in Southern India. Journal of Bombay Natural History Society 109(1&2), 30-36.
Saha,P., Balasubramaniam,K.N., Kalyani, J.N., Supriya, K., Padmanabhan, A. & Gadagkar, R. 2012. Clinging to royalty: Ropalidia marginata queens can employ both pheromone and aggression. Insectes sociaux 59(1), 41-44.
Vasudevan, K. & Supriya, K. 2011. Utilization of wild caught animals in education: a case of rampant vivisections in India. Current Science 100(6), 818-821.
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