- Executive Director, CUNY ASRC
- Associate Dean for the Sciences, CUNY Graduate Center
Mark Hauber
Dr. Hauber is the executive director of the ASRC and associate dean for the sciences and a tenured professor in the Comparative Psychology doctoral program at the CUNY Graduate Center. He is also author of the forthcoming new book, “Bird Day” (Nov. 2023) and the prior volume, “The Book of Eggs” (2014), both by University of Chicago Press. He was trained at Yale (BS summa cum laude in Organismal Biology) and Cornell (Ph.D. Neurobiology and Behavior) Universities and conducted a Miller Postdoctoral Fellowship at UC Berkeley (Integrative Biology/Psychology). A native of Hungary, he held faculty positions at the University of Auckland, Hunter College, CUNY, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He’s also served as a research administrator at Hunter and CUNY Central. For more about Dr. Hauber’s research, please visit www.cowbirdlab.org
Publications
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Winnicki SK, Benson TJ, Paitz RT, McGraw KJ, Hauber ME (2026). Laying order predicts avian maternal investment in egg yolk hormones and nutrients but not embryo size in the asynchronously hatching Turdus migratorius (American Robin). Ornithology 143: 1-16 (ukag018) |
Fernandez-Duque F, Lipschutz SE, Plumier JP, Angelier F, Huerta EY, Lawson SL, Chikoti S, Stiefvater A, Soma KK, Hauber ME (2026) Stage-structured multihormone phenotypes and a shared endocrine milieu underlie facultatitve male care in a biparental songbird. Hormones and Behavior, 105937: 105937. |
Osipova E, Balakrishnan CN, Spottiswoode CN, Lund J, DaCosta JM, Hauber ME, Warren WC, Sorenson MD, Sackton TB (2026) Comparative population genomics reveals convergent adaptation across independent origins of avian obligate brood parasitism. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 10: 128-139. |
Ausprey I, Dominguez J, Pollock HS, Hauber ME (2026) Eye size across avian lineages covaries with participation in a specialized foraging behaviour. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 39: 148-157. |
C.J. Vörösmarty, M. Trujillo, P. Casaccia, A. Cak, K.H. Gardner, D.I. Greenfield, P.M. Groffman, A. Reinmann, W. Solecki, M. Serreze, J. Waldman, J.M. Bhatnagar, H. Brumberg, A. Carnaval, J. Cullmann, S.P. Egendorf, M.E. Hauber, J. Herlan, I. Kavouras, C.E. Mason, P. Marcotullio, M. McCracken, D.A. McKay, F. Miszlivetz, T. Muth, Y. Nomura, C.A. Penick, J. Rising, R. Toledo-Crow, and C. Zarnoch. A Climate BioStress Sentinel System: Identifying climate impacts from the genome to the urbanized biosphere. Cell Reports Sustainability, 2025, 2, 100558. |
Turner AM, Sluis VN, Ward MP, Hauber ME (2026) Corticosterone shortens foreign egg ejection distance but not latency in American robins (Turdus migratorius). Physiology & Behavior, 303: 115148. |
