John Conway

Colorado Springs awarded John Conway (Zool; PhDBio’75) a $30,000 grant to update and replicate part of his CU Boulder Ph.D. thesis, completed under Robert Gregg, on the biology of the honey ant, Myrmecocystus mexicanus. John will compare the location and density of ant nests in the Garden of the Gods from June to September 2018 with what he found in 1975 to see if the abundance of this ant species has increased or decreased and how to best manage the park for this unusual ant in the future. John retired from the University of Scranton in August 2016 and plans to return to Colorado and live in Durango.