Krista Ingram featured on The Best of Our Knowledge

As always, host Bob Barrett selects an Academic Minute to air during The Best of Our Knowledge.

Each week this program examines some of the issues unique to college campuses, looks at the latest research, and invites commentary from experts and administrators from all levels of education.

For this week‘s edition (#1415), Bob has selected Krista Ingram’s segment on early birds and night owls. Dr. Ingram, associate professor of biology at Colgate University, examines how when you go to sleep or wake up can affect your decision making process throughout the day.

Research interests include social behavior, chronobiology, human behavior, molecular ecology, tropical conservation genetics, and comparative sociogenomics.

Teaching interests include animal behavior, evolutionary biology, molecular ecology and the evolution of social behavior.

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