[3] In April 2012, Zuk and her husband, John Rotenberry, transferred to the University of Minnesota, where they both work at its College of Biological Sciences.

[9] In 1996 Zuk was awarded a continuing grant by the National Science Foundation for an investigation into the ways that variation in females effects sexual selection and what qualities in males indicate vigor.

By highlighting the inextricable relationship between nature and nurture, she points out the impossibility of attributing female underrepresentation in science to any inborn cause.

Citing essential scientific integrity, she argues that until boys and girls are raised under identical circumstances one could not possibly prove any inherent female leanings towards or away from the sciences.

The conferred survival advantage under predator selection had, in fewer than 20 generations, changed the genotype, phenotype, and behavior of 90% of the island's cricket males.

[17][18][19][20] Her books and articles include:[2] Zuk is a professor in the department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior in the College of Biological Sciences.

[25] The Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology named their scholarship award for outstanding oral presentation in the division of animal behavior after her.