Dana Dudle is an evolutionary ecologist intrigued by the diverse strategies plants use to cope with environmental stressors. In one area of her research, she seeks to answer questions about how plants survive and thrive in harsh environments such as the exposed basin of the limestone quarry in DePauw's Nature Park. In another set of projects, she has investigated how and why some species of flowering plants maintain multiple floral colors within populations. She and dozens of DePauw students and colleagues have engaged in a long-term study of simultaneous invasions of the nature park quarry by two aggressive wetland grasses. All of Professor Dudle's research is collaborative: she enjoys developing projects with faculty members at DePauw and other institutions, and especially with DePauw students.

• Ph.D. in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology (Minor: Plant Biology), Indiana University, 1999
• B.A. in Biology, Carleton College, 1993

Teaching Interests: Plant Biology, Evolution, Ecology, Conservation Biology, Plant-Human Interactions, Being Human in STEM

• 2010: Methodist Teaching Award
• 2017-22: Winona H. Welch Professorship of Biology
• 2020: G. Bromley Oxnam Award for Service

Advising and Mentoring

• In addition to classroom teaching and collaborative research, advising and mentoring individual students is crucially important work that I do at DePauw. Working one-on-one with students to help them discern their academic goals and find paths toward those goals is extremely rewarding .

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dana-dudle-379b857/
• Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=9t8Nuy0AAAAJ&hl=en