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Stephen Nowicki

Professor of Biology
Biology
Duke Box 90338, Durham, NC 27708
137 Biological Sciences Building, 130 Science Drive, Durham, NC 27708

Selected Grants


Washington Duke Scholars Program

Institutional SupportPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Coca-Cola Foundation, Inc. · 2016 - 2021

The COMPASS PROJECT

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Howard Hughes Medical Institute · 2014 - 2020

Neural Codes for Vocal Sequences

ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2014 - 2020

2017 - 2018 MMUF

Institutional SupportPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Andrew W. Mellon Foundation · 2017 - 2018

AB Duke Scholars

FellowshipPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Angier Biddle Duke Memorial · 2017 - 2018

Funding for AB Duke Scholars program

Inst. Training Prgm or CMEPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Angier Biddle Duke Memorial · 2016 - 2017

Collaborative Research: Cognition and Signaling in Songbirds

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2012 - 2016

DISSERTATION RESEARCH: The Role of Mating System in Sperm Competition and Protein Evolution in /Agelaius/ Blackbirds

Inst. Training Prgm or CMEPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2011 - 2014

Impact of early nutrition on neural mechanisms of signal processing

FellowshipPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2010 - 2013

DISSERTATION RESEARCH: Selective pressures shaping aggressive behavoir in females: an experimental approach

Inst. Training Prgm or CMEPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2007 - 2009

DISSERTATION RESEARCH: Sources of selection on a complex sexual signal.

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2005 - 2008

Supplement: Collaborative Research: Developmental and receiver-dependent costs of avian signals

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2003 - 2007

Collaborative Research: Developmental and receiver-dependent costs of avian signals

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2003 - 2006

Single Neuron Correlates of Learned Song

ResearchConsultant · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2003 - 2006

DISSERTATION RESEARCH: Implications of production constraints for the function of vocal performance in mate choice

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2004 - 2006

DISSERTATION RESEARCH: Fitness cost of nest defense: a trade-off with offspring care?

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2004 - 2006

Collaborative Research: Complexity and Information in Avian Signals

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 1999 - 2003

Dissertation research: Function of multiple signals in avian vocal communication

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2001 - 2003

Undergraduate Neurosciences Summer Research Program in Mechanisms of Behavior

Inst. Training Prgm or CMECo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 1999 - 2002

Doctoral Dissertation: Sound Production in Spiny Lobsters (Palinuridai): Morphological Constraints and the Evolution of Signal Diversity

FellowshipPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 1999 - 2001

Undergraduate Neurosciences Summer Research Program in Mechanisms of Behavior

Inst. Training Prgm or CMECo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 1998 - 1999

Dissertation Research: Female Reproductive Coloration in Sceloporus Virgatus (Sauria:Iguanidae): A Functional Analysis

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 1996 - 1999

Perception, Function and Development of Complex Vocal Signals

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 1995 - 1997

Undergraduate Neurosciences Summer Research Program in Mechanisms of Behavior

Public ServiceCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 1993 - 1996

Comparative Study of Mechanisms of Vocal Production

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 1989 - 1995

Comparative Study of Mechanisms of Vocal Production

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 1989 - 1992

External Relationships


  • Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Princeton University Press
  • The Teaching Company

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