Lori Marino

Lori Marino is a Senior Lecturer in NBB and an adjunct faculty member in the Dept. of Psychology.  She is also a faculty affiliate of the Living Links Center for the Advanced Study of Ape and Human Evolution here at Emory.  Dr. Marino received her Ph.D. in 1995 from the State University of New York at Albany where she began her current research program on cetacean and primate intelligence and brain evolution.  Her specific interests are in brain-behavior relationships, the evolution of intelligence, self-awareness in other species, and, more recently, human-nonhuman relationships.  In 2001 she and her colleague Diana Reiss published the first evidence for mirror self-recognition in bottlenose dolphins in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.  She developed and continues to teach Brain Imaging, as an NBB elective that has been offered for the past several years.  She also teaches Topics in Neuro and Behavior and several other content courses in comparative neuroanatomy and animal behavior.  Dr. Marino also supervises the Independent Research course for NBB each semester.  She is most excited about her new course in Animal Welfare which she offered for the first time in Spring 2007and will be offering again in Spring 2008.  Dr. Marino is very interested in not only training students to be critical thinkers and scientists but also in providing an academic context for the study of non-invasive models of science, animal welfare, advocacy, and ethics.