Dr. Jack Putz has won the Scholarship of Engagement award from the College of Education. This award honors professors whose scholarship reflects the issues and concerns of the society at large. The award to Jack is “in recognition of your extensive scholarship and ability to present your research in public venues to stress the importance […]
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Ph.D. candidate, Jordan Mayor is the recipient of a $184,113 National Science Foundation International Research Postdoctoral Fellowship. Jordon’s research has also been funded by a $14,884 NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant (DDIG). Congrats!
Caitlin Hicks received the 2010 Murie Science and Learning Center Graduate Research Grant for $4,800. Congrats!
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Graduate students, Judit Ungvari-Martin, Swati Patel, Christine Holdredge, Mike Gil, and Marvin Morales are recipients of the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program Award. This fellowship awards a $30,000 annual stipend, a $10,500 cost-of-education allowance, a $1,000 one time international travel allowance, and TeraGrid Supercomputer access. James Nifong and Elizabeth Hamman received honorable mention. […]
Dr. Rebecca Kimball received a College of Liberal Arts and Science (CLAS) Teaching Award for her excellent advising and teaching of undergraduates.
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Claudia Segovia-Salcedo,PhD student in Dr. Pam Soltis’s Lab, received a 2010 Faculty for the Future Fellowship from the Schlumberger Foundation. Faculty for the Future grants are in the range of USD 25,000 to 50,000 per year to women from developing and emerging economies.
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Machel Malay’s (PhD candidate) and Dr. Gustav Paulay’s paper, Peripatric speciation drives diversification and distributional pattern of reef hermit crabs (Decapoda: Diogenidae: Calcinus) was recently published in the journal Evolution and featured as an “Editors’ Choice” in Science. Evolution 64, 634 (2010)
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Lucas Majure, a PhD candidate in Dr. Doug Stolis’ lab, has received a National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant to complete his work on the systematics and evolution of a subclade in the genus Opuntia.
Avian ecologists, Jill Jankowski and Alex Jahn, recently secured postdoctoral positions. Jill Jankowski will be at the University of British Columbia’s Biodiversity Research Center next fall. Alex Jahn will be at the University of Buenos Aires (Argentina) on an NSF International Postdoc. Congrats!
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Ph.D. candidate, Matthew Salomon, received a National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant for his work on, “The influence of short indel heterozygosity on local mutation rate”. Congrats!
Drs. Ed Braun, Satomi Kohno, Louis Guillette, and co-authors’ paper, “Phylogenomic Analyses Reveal the Evolutionary Origin of the Inhibin ?-Subunit, a Unique TGF? Superfamily Antagonist”, was recently published in PLoS ONE. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0009457
James Nifong, who studies top-predator impacts in coastal plant communities, was awarded a 3-year Graduate Fellowship from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
Drs. Pam Soltis, Gordon Burleigh, Doug Soltis and co-authors’ paper titled, “Phylogenetic analysis of 83 plastid genes further resolves the early diversification of eudicots” was recently published in PNAS and featured on ScienceDaily. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0907801107
Graduate Student Paper Award: Winner — Julie Allen Honorable Mention — Lori Albergotti and Matthew Salomon. Graduate Student Teaching Award: Co-winners — Jena Chojnowski and Paul Corogin Honorable Mention — Schuyler Van Montfrans. The winners will have their names inscribed on award plaques that will be displayed in the hallway of the 2nd floor of […]
Dr James Liao’s paper, “Organization and physiology of posterior lateral line afferent neurons in larval zebrafish” was published in Biology Letters. doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2009.0995
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Dr. Brad Barbazuk is a co-author of the Nature paper, “Genome sequencing and analysis of the model grass Brachypodium distachyon”. doi:10.1038/nature08747
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Dr. David Steadman and associates’ work in Blue Holes on the Bahamas is featured in a episode of NOVA on PBS entitled “Extreme Cave Diving”.
Former post doctoral associate in Biology: Dr. Chen Hou, Ph.D. Candidate: Hannah Vander Zanden, faculty member: Dr. Jamie Gillooly’s, and colleage’s paper entitled “Energetic basis of colonial living in social insects” was published in PNAS. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0908071107