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Dr. Kelly Ronald is a sensory physiologist/ecologist who began her faculty appointment in Hope's Department of Biology in summer 2019. She is interested in understanding the relationship between animal behavior and sensory physiology by asking the question: What are the physiological mechanisms that contribute to animal behavioral decisions? Dr. Ronald is proud of her history of working with undergraduate student researchers and is excited to bring students into the lab. She values mentorship, teamwork, family and curiosity.

Areas of Expertise

Dr. Ronald has broad training in animal physiology, behavior and neurobiology. She uses both field and lab approaches to address her research questions.

She is interested in the meaning of animal signals and the mechanisms of signal perception across multiple sensory modalities. Dr. Ronald asks questions like:

1. How are animal courtship signals displays of quality?
2. How do multimodal signals propagate across different environments?
3. How does receiver sensory biology affect behavioral decisions?

Education

• Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Biology, Indiana University
  Funded by the National Institutes of Health Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award T-32, "Themes in Reproductive Diversity"
• Ph.D., Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University
• B.A. Department of Biology, Transylvania University
• B.A. Department of Psychology, Transylvania University

Honors, Grants and Awards

• ; early career award in the field of animal behavior, 2017

Published Work

• 鈥�,鈥� with Xinzhu Zhang, Matthew V. Morrison, Ryan Miller and Laura M. Hurley, PLOS ONE, 2020
• 鈥�,鈥漺ith J.R. Lucas and E. Fern谩ndez-Juricic, Proceedings of the Royal Society B 285: 20180713, 2018
• 鈥�,鈥� with A.L. Ensminger, M.S. Shawkey, J.R. Lucas and E. Fern谩ndez-Juricic, Biology Open 6, 2017
• 鈥溾�� with T. Sesterhenn, E. Fern谩ndez-Juricic and J.R. Lucas, Journal of Comparative Physiology A 203, 2017
• 鈥�,鈥漺ith R. Zeng, D. White, E. Fern谩ndez-Jurcic and J.R. Lucas, Behavioral Ecology 28, 2017
• 鈥�,鈥漺ith T. Skillman et al., Ethology. 121 2015
• 鈥�,鈥� with J.R. Lucas and E. Fern谩ndez-Juricic, Animal Behaviour 84, 2012
• 鈥�,鈥� with M.D. Gall, E. Bestrom and J.R. Lucas, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 132, 2012

Outside the College

Dr. Ronald enjoys spending time with her family 鈥� her husband, Michael, and their three kids: twin sons, Caleb and Ian, and daughter, Norah. They all love their rescue dog, Monty. Kelly and Michael enjoy brewing beer, cooking Indian food, watching horror and science fiction films, completing home projects and pretending they can run distances like they did in their twenties. The Ronald family loves the Gospel and people.