Institutions Stanford University Name Deborah Gordon | Role University Professor Fields Biology | |
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Born December 30, 1955 (age 68) ( 1955-12-30 ) Education Duke University (1983), Oberlin College, Stanford University Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Natural Sciences, US & Canada | ||
Writing matters deborah m gordon professor of biology at stanford university
Deborah M. Gordon (born December 30, 1955) is a biologist, appointed as a Professor in the Department of Biology at Stanford University.
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- Writing matters deborah m gordon professor of biology at stanford university
- Ideaslab 2014 deborah m gordon the wisdom of ants
- Major research
- Education
- Awards and recognition
- References
Ideaslab 2014 deborah m gordon the wisdom of ants
Major research
Gordon studies ant colony behavior and ecology, with a particular focus on red harvester ants. She focuses on the developing behavior of colonies, even as individual ants change functions within their own lifetimes.
Gordon's fieldwork includes a long-term study of ant colonies in Arizona. She is the author of numerous articles and papers as well as the book Ants at Work for the general public, and she was profiled in the New York Times Magazine in 1999.[1]
Education
Gordon received a PhD in zoology from Duke in 1983, an MSc in Biology from Stanford in 1977[2] and Bachelors from Oberlin College, where she majored in French.
She was a Junior Fellow of the Harvard Society of Fellows.
Awards and recognition
In 1993 Gordon was named a Stanford MacNamara Fellow[3]. In 1995 Gordon received an award for teaching excellence from the Phi Beta Kappa Northern California Association.[4] In 2001 Gordon was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. In 2003, Gordon was invited to speak at a TED conference.[5] She is also an adviser to the Microbes Mind Forum.