Congratulations to Seanne for his outstanding performance at the 3-minute thesis UMass finalist round!
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Seanne in 3-minute thesis finals at UMass!
Congratulations to Seanne Clemente, who has again made it to the finalist round of the 3-minute thesis competition at UMass!
Emelia receives travel grant to MANRRS!
Congratulations to Emelia Kusi, who received a CNS Diversity Travel Grant of $1996 to attend the MANRRS 38th Annual Training Conference & Career Expo to focus on networking, outreach and career options!
Nov 2023: Seanne wins first place student presentation at ESA!
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!
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.