Janine Caira in The Washington Post
Writer Sarah Kaplan interviewed Janine for The Washington Post. Tapeworms are brainless, spineless, gutless parasites — and this scientist loves them – Sarah Kaplan – Washington Post – Caira – (1/2/18) Here’s the link.
[Read More]EEB Hummingbird Research in The Atlantic
Margaret, Alejandro, and Gregor (remember Gregor!) are featured in The Atlantic …. https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/11/hummingbird-tongues/546992/
[Read More]Sam Apgar receives Garden Club of America Award
March 9, 2017 EEB doctoral student Samantha Apgar (Elphick lab) has been awarded The Garden Club of America’s Coastal Wetlands Scholarship, which provides research funds towards her dissertation work on extinction risk in specialist marsh birds.
[Read More]Chris Nadeau Wins Schoodic Institute Fellowship
EEB doctoral student Chris Nadeau (Urban lab) has won the Second Century Stewardship Fellowship from AAAS, Schoodic Institute, and Acadia National Park to support his research on zooplankton ecological and evolutionary responses to climate change in rock pool crustaceans. He’ll be heating up rock pools and manipulating precipitation on the rocky coast of Maine. March 8, 2017
[Read More]Holly Brown wins Graduate Teaching Award
EEB graduate student Holly Brown has won the UConn Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award. Read more about this award on the Center for Teaching and Learning web site.
[Read More]Gene Likens receives BBVA Frontiers of Knowledge Award
Gene Likens has received a major award from the BBVA Foundation, the Frontiers of Knowledge in Ecology and Conservation Biology, recognizing his pioneering work on the discovery causes of acid rain and his long-term experimental studies of the impacts on ecosystems. The award description on the BBVA website states “The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Awards seek […]
[Read More]Pam Diggle awarded NSF grant
UConn EEB professor Pamela Diggle has been awarded a collaborative NSF grant entitled “Can variation in flower development explain variation in phenological responses to temperature?” in collaboration with Christa Mulder (University of Alaska, Fairbanks). Pam describes the funded project as follows: Climate change has resulted in increased temperature means across the globe. Many angiosperms flower earlier […]
[Read More]Mike Willig elected AAAS Fellow
Mike Willig has been elected a 2016 AAAS Fellow. Fellows are elected by the AAAS Council in recognition of their contributions to innovation, education, and scientific leadership. Read more here: 2016 AAAS Fellows Honored for Advancing Science to Serve Society.
[Read More]Val Milici receives award from Tinker Field Graduate Research Fund
Val Milici was just awarded $4000 by the Tinker Field Graduate Research Fund. The funding will allow Val to set up experiments that investigate how humidity affects interactions between plants and both beneficial and pathogenic fungi. She expects that this visit will form the foundation for her work on how climate change may alter tropical rainforest plant communities […]
[Read More]Lily R. Lewis receives 2015 Best Ph.D. Dissertation Award
Dr. Lily R. Lewis (Bernard Goffinet, major advisor) has received the Greg and Mona Anderson Best EEB Ph.D. Dissertation Award for 2015. Several years ago, Greg and Mona Anderson generously donated money to be used for an award for the best EEB Ph.D. dissertation in each calendar year. The first award, for 2013, was made to Dr. […]
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