Luca receives $750 Research Assistant Fellowship!

Luca Pillidge has received a $750 Research Assistant Fellowship from the UMass Honors College to begin his senior honors thesis working with postdoc Kate Borchardt in the spring semester! Luca will expand his evaluation of whether wing asymmetry correlates with habitat quality or Crithidia infection in bees that Luca, Kate, and the rest of Kate’s […]

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Congratulations to Cameron – thesis done, headed to a new job!

Cameron Lamphere completed his MS thesis studying relationships between sunflowers, bees and Crithidia infection. He’ll be starting a new position as a Biological Science Technician for the US Fish & Wildlife in their Fish and Aquatics Division in Arcata, California, where he will do field work monitoring salmon runs. We will miss him, and wish […]

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