It’s the time of the year when awards, grants and other forms of academic excellence are being recognized. The graduate students of the department received recently quite a few of these recognitions. Grant Godden received a NSF DDIG award to investigate the phylogeny of mints. Mike Gil received the award for the best oral presentation at the Benthic Ecology Meeting. Nicole Botteri received the UF Graduate Student Teaching Award. Congratulations to all of them!