PhD student Seanne Clemente just won the first place award for best student presentation in the chemical ecology section of the Entomological Society of America national meeting!
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Aug 2023: Elyse receives travel award!
Congratulations to PhD student Elyse McCormick, who received a $500 Program Enhancement Fund travel award to attend the Ent Soc meeting as an invited symposium speaker!
June 2023: Srinath headed to grad school!
I’m so happy to report that graduating senior Srinath Srikanth Vaidheeswaran will pursue his PhD in Applied Biology at Umass Lowell with Prof. Jennifer Fish, where he will be studying evolutionary developmental biology of the jaw.
April 2023: Seanne awarded competitive summer fellowship!
PhD candidate Seanne Clemente has been awarded the Howard E. Bigelow and Margaret E. Barr Bigelow Memorial Scholarship, which will provide summer funding. This competitive fellowship supports students studying botany who are associated with the Biology Department at UMass.
April 2023: Alison receives competitive postdoc fellowship!
I’m so happy to report that recent PhD Alison Fowler was chosen for the competitive Smithsonian Biodiversity Genomics Postdoctoral Fellowship! She will be working with Dr. Robert Fleischer studying the gut microbiomes of wax-eating birds.
April 2023: Molly receives scholarship!
Undergraduate honors student and lab manager Molly Brewer has been selected for the David J. Snyder ’57 Memorial Scholarship!
April 2023: Lynn awarded Conti fellowship
I am honored and so, so excited to have been selected as one of three university Samuel F. Conti fellows for the 2023-24 academic year. This fellowship provides a one-year release from teaching and service responsibilities to focus on research.
Jan 2023: Wow, Emelia runs outreach for over 1200 high school students in Ghana!
Emelia Kusi created her own foundation, EKO Global, and this January had a STEM and professional development outreach for over 1200 high school students in Ghana, donated 4 scientific microscopes and gave honorary plaques to the school principals and two professors she interviewed from one of Ghana’s and West African top universities, Kwame Nkrumah University […]
Lynn receives 2023 Mahoney Life Sciences Prize
I am honored and humbled to have been chosen to receive this year’s Mahoney Life Sciences Prize, which recognizes a recent publication with potential industry applications. The award was based on my 2020 PNAS paper evaluating the role of flowering plant species in bumble bee colony infection and reproduction.
Jan 2023: Sonja and Emelia awarded Crabtree fellowships!
Congratulations to PhD students Sonja Glasser and Emelia Kusi, who were both awarded Lotta M. Crabtree fellowships for agricultural research that will support them this spring!