“My Love Affair with the Brain,” a documentary about the late Professor Emeritus Marian Diamond, has won the Kavli-AAAS award for Science Documentary of the Year. |
Professor Mimi A. R. Koehl has received the |
Professor Paul Fine has received an award from the National Geographic Society to conduct research expeditions in the Andes. |
Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor (OGSI) Awards for 2017-2018: Left to right: Gabriel Damasco (Fine |
Ana Lyons (Williams lab) was recently |
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Tim O’Connor (Whiteman lab) received a Student Research Award from the American Society of Naturalists that will fund his research on co-speciation between creosote bush and its herbivorous insect community as well as a Philomathia Foundation Graduate Fellowship in Environmental Sciences for 2018-2019 which will fund one semester of tuition and stipend while he conducts research. |
2018 NSF Graduate Research Fellowships: |
Julianne Pelaez (Whiteman lab) received a Mentored Research Award, which awards academically promising doctoral students with a year-long stipend plus payment of in-state fees. This award assists students in acquiring sophisticated research skills by working under faculty mentorship on their own pre-dissertation research. |
Gabriel Damasco (Fine lab) received a $2,000 grant from the International Association for Plant Taxonomy Research. |
Aaron Pomerantz (Patel lab) received a Jacobs Institute Innovation Catalysts grant for his project to design low-cost, portable tools for science and education. |
Betsabé Castro Escobar (Fine/Carlson labs) was awarded a two-year Botany in Action Fellowship from Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens, which supports emerging plant-focused scientists. |
Ashley Poust (Marshall lab) recently published a paper on the geographic and geochronologic range of early pinnipeds, which was chosen as an Editor’s Choice article by Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. |
Catherine Hernandez (Koskella lab) was selected for the Australia-Americas PhD Research Internship, where she will be performing a microscopy project with Dr. Jeremy Barr at Monash University. |
IB Commencement Awards 2018: Congratulations to Hiep Nguyen, Marian Diamond Award (left); Jazlyn Chong, Franklin Henry Award (center); Zheng Oong, Departmental Citation Award (right); and Seth LaRosa, Joseph LeConte Award.
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