2004 REU Projects:

Electronic copies of full reports are also available upon request, and with permission of authors.

NOTE: The 2004 program was reduced. Starting in 2005 the program will resume its traditional size of 10+.

Click on name for project abstract:

Ahrens, Elizabeth (Lily) (St. Olaf College). Mentors: Henry Wilbur and Johanna Kraus (University of Virginia). Wolf spider (Araneae: Lycosidae) movement and distribution along a pond boundary.

Garcia, Charlene (Mary Washington College). Mentors: Henry Wilbur and Patrice Ludwig (University of Virginia). The relationship between phoretic mites and forked fungus beetles (Bolitotherus cornutus).