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Jennifer Fewell is a **President’s Professor and Associate Dean of Faculty** in The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Arizona State University. Her primary affiliation is with the School of Life Sciences, and she is also part of the Biosocial Complexity Initiative, Center for Social Dynamics and Complexity (CSDC), and Social Insect Research Group. Her research focuses on the organization and evolution of insect societies, particularly how division of labor emerges and scales with group size in species like harvester ants. She also studies cooperative systems beyond insects, including NBA basketball teams.
**Education**: PhD in Zoology (1988) from University of Colorado, Boulder; MS (1985) and BA in Biology (1979) from Cornell University.
**Research Interests**: Social insect behavior, self-organization in cooperative groups, evolutionary mechanisms of social cooperation, and the application of social insect principles to human organizational design (social biomimicry). Her work bridges ecology, evolutionary biology, and complex systems theory.
**Key Themes in Publications**: Scaling of metabolic rates and labor in ant colonies, cooperative strategies in queen associations, and the impacts of environmental factors (e.g., fungicides) on social insect health. She has also explored mathematical modeling of mutualistic relationships and social aggression dynamics.
**Grants & Service**: Lead numerous NSF-funded projects on insect sociality and served on editorial boards (e.g., *Journal of Bioeconomics*) and advisory committees. Active in promoting diversity in STEM through programs like the MARC initiative at ASU.
**Labs/Teams**: Directs the Social Insect Research Group and co-directs the Center for Social Dynamics and Complexity, fostering interdisciplinary research on complex social systems.
