Dee M. Ruttenberg

Professor of Practice in Biology

druttenberg@stonehill.edu
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Biography

Professor of Practice in Biology Dee Ruttenberg joined the Stonehill College community in 2025. As a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow, they completed their Ph.D. at Princeton University in the lab of Dr. Sarah Kocher. Their dissertation is focused on understanding the collective behavior of bees, on both the individual-level and the colony-level. They are especially excited to collaborate with Stonehill students who seek to develop skills in data visualization, programming, or biological modeling, as well as those who are working on projects where utilizing these skills will be useful.

Ruttenberg is an enthusiastic advocate for the use of student-driven and active learning techniques. They have a deep passion for teaching incarcerated students, working as an educator and course coordinator for the Prison Teaching Initiative in New Jersey. 

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Education

  • Ph.D., Quantitative and Computational Biology, Princeton University
  • B.S., Biology (Specialization in Genetics), University of Chicago

Courses Taught

  • Anatomy & Physiology
  • Bioinformatics

Areas of Expertise

Entomology , Quantitative Biology , Computational Biology , Genomics , STEM Education

Titles

Professor of Practice in Biology

Departments

Biology

Selected Publications, Awards & Accomplishments

  • Ruttenberg, Dee M., Scott W. Wolf, Andrew E. Webb, Eli S. Wyman, Michelle L. White, Diogo Melo, Ian M. Traniello, and Sarah D. Kocher. “Queen loss unmasks cryptic worker influence and decentralizes the bumble bee social network.” bioRxiv (2025): 2025.01.07.630106
  • Ruttenberg, Dee M., Simon A. Levin, Ned S. Wingreen, and Sarah D. Kocher. “Variation in season length and development time is sufficient to drive the emergence and coexistence of social and solitary behavioural strategies.” Proceedings of the Royal Society B 291, no. 2032 (2024): rspb.2024.1221
  • Wolf, Scott W., Dee M. Ruttenberg, Daniel Y. Knapp, Andrew E. Webb, Ian M. Traniello, Grace C. McKenzie‐Smith, Sophie A. Leheny, Joshua W. Shaevitz, and Sarah D. Kocher. “NAPS: Integrating pose estimation and tag‐based tracking.” Methods in Ecology and Evolution 14, no. 10 (2023): 2041-210X.14201
  • Ruttenberg, Dee M., Nicholas W. VanKuren, Sumitha Nallu, Shen-Horn Yen, Djunijanti Peggie, David J. Lohman and Marcus R. Kronforst. “The evolution and genetics of sexually dimorphic ‘dual’ mimicry in the butterfly Elymnias hypermnestra.” Proceedings of the Royal Society B 288, no. 2020 (2021): rspb.2020.2192
  • 2022: Travel Grant, International Union for the Study of Social Insects
  • 2021: Awardee, Graduate Research Fellowship Program, National Science Foundation
  • 2019: Research Honors in Biological Sciences, University of Chicago

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