• To find out about some of the pedagogical goals of the project and the thinking that shaped the design and development of the Avida-ED software and curriculum see:
Robert T. Pennock. "Learning Evolution and the Nature of Science using Evolutionary Computing and Artificial Life" McGill Journal of Education (Vol. 42, No. 2, pp. 211-224, 2007)
Principal Investigators
- Robert T. Pennock (PI), Michigan State University
- Richard Lenski (Co-PI), Michigan State University
- Charles Ofria (Co-PI), Michigan State University
- Louise Mead (Co-PI), Michigan State University
- Jim Smith (Co-PI), Michigan State University
Current Staff
- Diane Blackwood, Software Developer
- Wesley Elsberry, Software Developer
Personnel
- Eric Berling, Graduate Research Assistant
- Reid Blanchett, Graduate Research Assistant
- Kenyon Cavender, Graduate Research Assistant
- Anna Bowling, Undergraduate Research Assistant
- Mike Wiser, Postdoc
- Cory Kohn, Graduate Student
- Wendy Johnson, Graduate Student
- Amy Lark, Graduate Student
- Elena Bray Speth, Graduate Student
- Jeff Clune, Graduate Student
- Robin Miller, Undergraduate Professorial Assistant
- Jake Cousineau, Undergraduate Professorial Assistant
- Geoffrey Witherington-Perkins, Undergraduate Professorial Assistant
- Matt Rupp, Software Developer
- Brian Baer, Software Developer
- Kaben Nanlohy, Software Developer
- Laura Grabowski (Senior Personnel), SUNY-Potsdam
- Joseph Graves (Senior Personnel), North Carolina A&T University
- Ben Kerr (Senior Personnel), University of Washington
- Gerald Urquhart (Senior Personnel), Michigan State University
- Terence Soule (Senior Personnel), University of Idaho