Women in the Biological Sciences Symposium - The Life of a Woman Scientist

Patty Gowaty is the Distinguished Research Professor in the Institute of Ecology at the University of Georgia. Her current research focuses on natural selection and variation in mating systems, sex allocation, and sex differentiated behavior. Patty has published widely from ornithological literature to an edited volume Feminism and Evolutionary Biology. Dr. Gowaty is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Graduate Women in Science, and the American Society of Naturalists among many others. Additionally, she has served on the editorial board of several journals and was President of the Animal Behavior Society.