Teaching and Mentoring

Undergraduate mentees

  • Aejah

    Summer 2022 CISAB REU Program

    Aejah’s project revolved around comparing male mouse behavior after exposure to either physical environmental enrichment and isolated housing, or physical environmental enrichment and group housing. She studied male vocal response to broadband vocalizations.

  • Gabriel

    Summer 2021 CISAB REU Program

    Gabriel studied how male mice modulated their vocal behavior in response to broadband vocalizations when they were in the presence of odor from conspecific males. See how Gabriel and I explain the project in our feature on the National Research Mentoring Network’s website.

  • Makenzie

    Summer 2022 CISAB REU Program

    Makenzie’s project assessed a variety of courtship behavior in direct interactions in mice that were either socially isolated with no physical enrichment, or socially isolated with physical enrichment.

  • Lucas

    Spring 2022

    Lucas helped investigate vocal behavior during direct interactions after exposure to varying levels of social and physical enrichment.

  • Amadeus

    Spring 2022 -

    Amadeus is helping to analyze sociability in male and female mice during exposure to BBV playback.

  • Aleena

    Spring 2022 -

    Aleena is helping to assess vocal behavior of mice exposed to varying levels of social and environmental enrichment during sociability assays.

  • Sadie

    Fall 2023 -

    In the fall, Sadie is excited to get hands on experience working in the lab and learn about life in graduate school.

Teaching Experience

Animal Behavior

Associate Instructor, Fall 2022-Spring 2023

Intro to Animal Behavior

Associate Instructor, Fall 2023 and Fall 2024

Animal Behavior Laboratory

Associate Instructor, Fall 2023

Diversity, Evolution, and Ecology

Associate Instructor, Fall 2020

Animal Behavior Workshop

Associate Instructor, Spring 2024

Student Teaching Evaluations

  • "She was amazing. Even out of class. I was curious of how I could get more involved in animal behavior and things to do in general and she gave me so many people and groups to contact. She also was great at explaining things."

    Animal Behavior - Spring 2023

  • "Lauren was an excellent [associate instructor]. She cleared up confusion that we had from lectures, presented content clearly and accurately, and seemed like she wanted all of us to do well. I would absolutely recommend anyone have her in the future."

    Diversity, Evolution, Ecology - Fall 2020

  • "I always appreciated your energy & commitment to your students, even at 7:30am! You were a huge help to me this semester and I really enjoyed having you as a TA."

    Diversity, Evolution, Ecology - Fall 2020

  • "She was always open to have conversations and was very welcoming and always encouraged us to ask her any questions we had about school or our future careers. She's always willing to help."

    Introductory and Advanced Animal Behavior Workshop - Spring 2024

  • "Lauren is so friendly. If a student has a question, she is always ready to listen. She gives feedback and talks to students. She listens. She always has time to talk to us. During our presentations she was engaged and asked questions, and she was usually taking notes or helping us during class time."

    Introductory and Advanced Animal Behavior Workshop - Spring 2024

  • "She explained some complex research techniques and studies in an engaging and easy–to–understand way! She was really engaging in the lectures she gave!"

    Introduction to Animal Behavior - Fall 2024

  • "Lauren was extremely helpful in improving my learning for this class. The study guides she created were pivotal in my success with the course exams. Her availability during office hours meant that I always had an additional resource when needed."

    Introduction to Animal Behavior - Fall 2023

  • "Lauren was also very passionate and engaging when she would present and also when answering questions. You can tell that she really loves animal behavior as much as the professor! She was really cool, and I thought her experiences that she shared with us were awesome."

    Introduction to Animal Behavior - Fall 2024