Abstract
On 14 April 2016, the scientific community lost Dr. Stan Kuczaj, professor at the University of Southern Mississippi and Director of the Marine Mammal Behavior and Cognition Laboratory. He was a beloved teacher, researcher, friend, mentor, and colleague. By age 65, this well-liked, respected professor had achieved world-renowned status in multiple disciplines—comparative psychology, behavioral sciences, and developmental psychology. His tremendous success in these areas resulted in a legacy of more than 50 master’s- and doctoral-level students working in a variety of fields; he also had hundreds of collaborators from around the world. Stan significantly contributed to and influenced the current direction of these fields and had many plans and research projects still to accomplish.
Highlights
On 14 April 2016, the scientific community lost Dr Stan Kuczaj, professor at the University of Southern Mississippi and Director of the Marine Mammal Behavior and Cognition Laboratory
In 1986, Stan was awarded a prestigious Fulbright Scholarship to work at Oxford University as a Visiting Fellow in the Department of Experimental Psychology; and in 1989, he served as a Visiting Professor at the University of Hawaii’s Kewalo Basin Marine Mammal Laboratory, collaborating with Dr Louis Herman in studies on dolphin cognition, language learning, and communication
With a vision to deepen his involvement in marine mammal science, Stan accepted the position of Chair in the Department of Psychology at the University of Southern Mississippi and founded the Marine Mammal Behavior and Cognition Laboratory in 1996
Summary
On 14 April 2016, the scientific community lost Dr Stan Kuczaj, professor at the University of Southern Mississippi and Director of the Marine Mammal Behavior and Cognition Laboratory. In 1986, Stan was awarded a prestigious Fulbright Scholarship to work at Oxford University as a Visiting Fellow in the Department of Experimental Psychology; and in 1989, he served as a Visiting Professor at the University of Hawaii’s Kewalo Basin Marine Mammal Laboratory, collaborating with Dr Louis Herman in studies on dolphin cognition, language learning, and communication.
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