Background
Holmes, Donna Jean was born on July 26, 1954 in Decatur, Illinois, United States. Daughter of Roy A. Holmes and Cynthia (Brock) Higgins.
Holmes, Donna Jean was born on July 26, 1954 in Decatur, Illinois, United States. Daughter of Roy A. Holmes and Cynthia (Brock) Higgins.
AB, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, 1976. Master of Science, Bowling Green State University, 1980. Doctor of Philosophy, Bowling Green State University, 1987.
Research associate New Jersey Medical School, Newark, 1986-1989. Science writing consultant Immunology Research Institute, Annandale, New Jersey, 1990. Assistant ecologist Savannah River Ecology Laboratories, University Georgia, Aiken, 1990-1992.
Postdoctoral fellow in organismic and evolutionary biology Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1990-1993. Research associate, Department Biological Sciences University Idaho, since 1993. Referee journals. Animal Behavior, since 1990, Journal of Mammalogy, since 1990.
Member Association for Women in Science, Animal Behavior Society (facilitator women's roundtables 1990-1992, grants committee 1990-1993), American Ornithologists' Union, American Society Mammalogists.
Married Ronald E. Meisner, October 2, 1976 (divorced 1985).