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 […]
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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!
Oct 2022: Seanne highlighted in UMass research profile!
Seanne Clemente, 4th year PhD student, was selected by UMass to highlight as a graduate student researcher. You can check out the article here!
May 2022: Seanne gets Graduate School Dissertation Grant!
Seanne Clemente was awarded a $1000 Graduate School Dissertation Grant. According to the panel, he did an amazing job!
April 2022: Caro receives AAUW fellowship!
Carolina Munoz Agudelo receives a $20,000 competitive international AAUW fellowship that will support her next year!
Mar 22: Sonja and Justin receive NHC grants!
Sonja Glasser and Justin Roch, OEB graduate students, have both received UMass Natural History Collections grants to fund their thesis research!
Mar 2022: Sonja defends her MS thesis!
Sonja Glasser, a first-year OEB PhD student, has successfully defended her Master’s thesis at UNAM – congratulations!
Aug 2021: Justin’s photo selected for 2022 ESA World of Insects Calendar!
A gorgeous photo of a halictid bee on chrysanthemum flowers, taken by 5th-year MS student Justin Roch, has been selected for the Entomological Society of America’s 2022 World of Insects Calendar. Go Justin!
Aug 2021: Caro awarded NE SARE graduate grant!
PhD student Caro Munoz Agudelo has been awarded a $15,000 Northeastern SARE graduate student grant for her research, “Interactive effects of pesticides, drought, and pathogens on the common eastern bumble bee Bombus impatiens.” Congratulations to Caro!