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Kendra Sewall

Associate Professor of Biological Sciences
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3001 Derring Hall (MC 0406)
926 West Campus Drive
Blacksburg, VA 24061
USA
ksewall@vt.edu
(540) 231-5617

Major Fields of Interest

Animal Behavior and Neurobiology

Current Research

My research seeks to understand how neural and behavioral processes - and the environmental and developmental factors that impact those processes - contribute to animals' survival and reproductive success.

  • 2013- Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences, Virginia Tech
  • 2009-12 NRSA Postdoctoral Fellow, Duke University (Stephen Nowicki and Erich Jarvis, sponsors)
  • 2008-09 SPIRE Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (Keith Sockman, advisor)
  • 2008 Ph.D., Animal Behavior, University of California, Davis. Dissertation: Age-dependent plasticity of call production and responsiveness in red crossbills (Loxia curvirostra): Implications for social intermixing and evolution (Thomas Hahn, advisor)
  • 2000 BA (cum laude), Biology (Honors), Middlebury College; School for International Training, Ecology and Conservation, Madagascar (study abroad)
  • 2018 Service Award, Department of Biological Sciences, Virginia Tech
  • 2014 Fralin Life Sciences Institute Young Investigator Award, Virginia Tech ($10,000)
  • 2013 Virginia Tech Mentoring Grant, College of Science, Virginia Tech ($1500)
  • 2013 American Ornithologists’ Union Travel Award for the 2014 International Ornithological Congress ($800)
  • 2008-2010 IRACDA/SPIRE Postdoctoral Teaching Fellowship, National Institutes of Health

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