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RA Costello, SN Ewell, PE Adams, ML Aranda, A Curry, MM De Jesus, RDP Dunk, J Fluker, ME García-Ojeda, SJ Gutzler, L Habersham, MK Kjelvik, MA Mateen, KJ Metzger, KX Mulligan, MT Owens, RM Pigg, K Quillin, MM Rice, S Sovi, EH Schultheis, EJ Theobald, E Tracey, B Tripp, S Yang, AT Zemenick, CJ Ballen, and D Ovid. 2025. Highlighting counter-stereotypical scientists in undergraduate life science courses. CBE–Life Sciences Education 24: es1. doi:10.1187/cbe.24-02-0082 PDF
RA Costello, S Hammarlund, EM Christiansen, MK Kiani, M Glessmer, S Cotner, and CJ Ballen. 2025. Students prefer assessment practices known to reduce the impact of test anxiety. Nordic Journal of STEM Education 9: 43–65. doi:10.5324/njsteme.v9i1.5892 PDF
RA Costello, EP Driessen, MK Kjelvik, EH Schultheis, RM Youngblood, AT Zemenick, MG Weber, and CJ Ballen. 2025. More than a token photo: Humanizing scientists enhances student engagement. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 292: 20240879. doi:10.1098/rspb.2024.0879 PDF
EH Schultheis, AT Zemenick, RM Youngblood, RA Costello, EP Driessen, MK Kjelvik, MG Weber, and CJ Ballen. 2024. "Scientists are human too": Biology students relate more to scientists when they are humanized in course materials. CBE–Life Sciences Education 23: ar64. doi:10.1187/cbe.24-02-0045 PDF
EP Driessen, A Steele, RA Costello, P Brewer, and CJ Ballen. 2024. "It let me merge my love of teaching with research": A qualitative investigation of the career pathways of biology education researchers. PLOS ONE 19: e0312243. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0312243 PDF
CJ Ballen, PE Adams, EW Burkholder, RA Costello, S Fagbodun, JA Henning, and M Ntam. 2024. Alabama’s attack on DEI hinders STEM teaching. Science 385: 722. doi:10.1126/science.adq2367 PDF
EM Ball, RA Costello, CJ Ballen, RM Graze, and EW Burkholder. 2024. Challenging misconceptions about race in undergraduate genetics. CBE–Life Sciences Education 23: ar32. doi:10.1187/cbe.23-12-0228 PDF
RA Costello, AE Beatty, RDP Dunk, SN Ewell, JE Pruett, and CJ Ballen. 2024. Re-envisioning biology curricula to include ideological awareness. Research in Science Education (RISE) 15: 13–26. doi:10.1007/s11165-023-10101-0 PDF
PA Cook, RA Costello, VA Formica, and ED Brodie III. 2024. Population age structure shapes selection on social behavior in a long-lived beetle. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 379: 20230331. doi:10.1098.rstb.2023.0331 PDF
RA Costello, S Salehi, CJ Ballen, and EW Burkholder. 2023. Pathways of opportunity in STEM: Comparative investigation of degree attainment across different demographic groups at a large research institution. International Journal of STEM Education 10: 46. doi:10.1186/s40594-023-00436-5 PDF
RM Youngblood, RA Costello, EP Driessen, AR Radocha, M Kjelvik, E Schultheis, A Zemenick, M Weber, and CJ Ballen. 2023. Exposure to counterstereotypical scientist role models impact how students relate to scientists. Auburn University Journal of Undergraduate Scholarship. PDF
AE Beatty, J Henning, EP Driessen, A Clark, RA Costello, SN Ewell, R Klaback, T Lamb, K Mulligan-Guy, S Fagbodun, and CJ Ballen. 2023. Biology instructors see value in discussing controversial topics but fear personal and professional consequences. CBE–Life Sciences Education 22: ar28. doi:10.1187/cbe.22-06-0108 PDF
PA Cook, RA Costello, VA Formica, and ED Brodie III. 2023. Individual and population age impact social behavior and network structure in a long-lived insect. The American Naturalist 202: 667c680. doi:10.1086/726063 PDF
RA Costello, PA Cook, ED Brodie III, and VA Formica. 2023. Multilevel selection on social network traits differs between sexes in experimental populations of forked fungus beetles. Evolution 77: 289–303. doi:10.1093/evolut/qpac012 PDF
PA Cook, OM Baker, RA Costello, VA Formica, and ED Brodie III. 2022. Group composition of individual personalities alters social network structure in experimental populations of forked fungus beetles. Biology Letters 18: 20210509. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2021.0509 PDF
RA Costello, PA Cook, VA Formica, and ED Brodie III. 2022. Group and individual social network metrics are robust to changes in resource distribution in experimental populations of forked fungus beetles. Journal of Animal Ecology 91: 895–907. doi:10.1111/1365-2656.13684 PDF
ED Brodie III, PA Cook, RA Costello, and VA Formica. 2022. Phenotypic assortment changes the landscape of selection. Journal of Heredity 113: 91–101. doi:10.1093/jhered/esab062 PDF
RM Cox, RA Costello, BE Camber, and JW McGlothlin. 2017. Multivariate genetic architecture of the Anolis dewlap reveals both shared and sex-specific features of a sexually dimorphic ornament. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 30: 1262–1275. doi:10.1111/jeb.13080 PDF
LB Symes, MP Ayres, CP Cowdery, and RA Costello. 2015. Signal diversification in Oecanthus tree crickets is defined by energetic, morphometric, and acoustic trade-offs. Evolution 69: 1518–1527. doi:10.1111/evo.12668 PDF
RA Costello and LB Symes. 2014. Effects of anthropogenic noise on male signalling behaviour and female phonotaxis in Oecanthus tree crickets. Animal Behaviour 95: 15–22. doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2014.05.009 PDF
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