Much graduate student research in EEB is funded by extra-mural fellowships, grants, and other awards received by students (potential places to apply are listed here). Recent awards from entities outside of the university include:
2023
Maurice Amee. Graduate Student Research Award. Sigma Xi
Maurice Amee. Graduate Student Research Award. Botanical Society of America.
Akriti Bhattarai. Graduate Student Research Award. Botanical Society of America.
Brandon Chan. Graduate Research Fellowship. National Science Foundation.
Georgia Hernandez-Corrales. Research Grant. Lewis and Clark Fund for Exploration and Field Research.
Sydney Horan. Research Grant. American Ornithological Society.
G Young Kim. Graduate Student Research Award, Botanical Society of America.
Analisa Milkey. Graduate Research Fellowship. National Science Foundation.
Zach Muscavitch. Graduate Student Dissertation Award in Phylogenetic Comparative Plant Biology. Botanical Society of America.
Alex Soldo. Research Grant. American Ornithological Society.
Swapna Subramanian. Research Grant. Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE).
Cynthia Webster. Travel Grant. Bioinformatics Open Source Conference.
2022
Laura Bizzarri. Seed Research Award. Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation
Brendan Enochs. Research Grant. Society of Integrative and Comparative Biologists.
Brendan Enochs. Roger Conant Research Gran. Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles.
Henry Frye. BioScape. NASA. (Co-investigators: J Silander and C. Jones)
Franco Gigliotti. Research Grant. US Fish and Wildlife Service. (Co-investigator: C. Elphick)
Zachary Muscavitch. Lewis and Clark Fund for Exploration and Field Research. American Philosophical Society.
Mark Stukel. Research Grant. Linnean Society.
Swapna Subramanian. Graduate Research Fellowship. National Science Foundation.
Nick Van Gilder. Research Grant. Sigma Xi.
Nick Van Gilder. Research Grant. California Department of Fish and Wildlif. (Co-investigators: E. Jocksuch and C Noment)
Grace Vaziri. Roger Conant Grants-In-Herpetology Award. Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles.
2021
Kristin Anderson. Stanley Greene Research Award. International Association of Bryologists.
Liz Clifton. Student Research Award. Fulbright (Czech Republic).
Michael LaScaleia. Graduate Student Award. New England Botanical Society.
Susan McEvoy. Arnold Arboretum Sequencing Award.
Zachary Muscavitch. Research Award. Phycological Society of America.
Zachary Muscavitch. Graduate Research Award. Northeast Algal Society.
Zachary Muscavitch. Graduate Student Research Award. American Society of Plant Taxonomists.
Zachary Muscavitch. Graduate Student Award. Society of Systematic Biologists
Zachary Muscavitch. Research Award. International Association of Plant Taxonomy.
Vidya Vuruputoor. Research Award. American Conifer Society.
2020
Laura Bizzarri. Thesis Research Fellowship, Organization for Tropical Studies.
Laura Bizzarri. Student Research Grant, Arachnological Research Fund, American Arachnological Society.
Liz Clifton. Rudy Ruggles Research Fellowship. Organization for Tropical Studies.
Henry Frye. Future Investigators in NASA and Space Science and Technology (FINESST). NASA. (Co-investigators: J Silander and H Dierrsen.)
Eliza Grames. Research Grant. Mistra. (Co-investigators: NR Haddaway and B Macura.)
Eliza Grames. Scholar Award. PEO International.
Jessica Gutierrez. Savaloja Research Grant. Minnesota Ornithologists’ Union.
Jessica Gutierrez. Early Career Scholarship. National Ecological Observatory Network.
Jessica Gutierrez. Research Grant. North American Bluebird Society.
Georgia Hernández-Corrales. ATBC Seed Research Grant. Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation Award
Jacob Kasper. Environmental Education and Stewardship Grant. Dominion Energy.
Susan McEvoy. Bill Dahl Graduate Student Research Award. Botanical Society of America.
Valerie Milici. Tropical Botany Award. Garden Club of America.
Valerie Milici. Pre-Doctoral Fellowship. Smithsonian Institute.
Zachary Muscavitch. Culberson & Hale Award. American Bryological and Lichenological Society.
Andrew Stillman. Research Grant. USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station.
Mark Stukel. Student Research Award. Fulbright (New Zealand).
Lisa Terlova. Research Grant. Northeast Algal Society.
2019
Becca Colby. Grant in Aid of Research. Sigma Xi.
Eliza Grames. Research Grant. Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. (Co-investigators: D Wagner and CS Elphick.)
Eliza Grames. Research Mini-Grant. SysRev. (Co-investigator: G Montgomery.)
Eliza Grames. Research Grant. Great Hollow Nature Preserve.
Eliza Grames. Student Travel Award. Association of Field Ornithologists and Wilson Ornithological Society.
Eliza Grames. Travel Bursury. Evidence Synthesis Hackathon.
Georgia Hernández-Corrales. Award for Botanical and Horticultural Research Projects on the Zingiberales. Heliconia Society International.
Georgia Hernández-Corrales. Mamont Scholarship. The Explorer’s Club.
Georgia Hernández-Corrales. Student Travel Award. New Phytologist Trust.
Tanner Matson. Graduate Student Fellowship. Smithsonian Institute.
Tanner Matson. Research Mini-Grant White Mountain Research Center.
Graham Montgomery. Mamont Scholarship. The Explorer’s Club.
Andrew Stillman. Graduate Research Innovation (GRIN) Fellowship. Joint Fire Science Program (DOI, BLM, Forest Service).
Andrew Stillman. Research Grant. USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station.
Andrew Stillman. Travel Award. Wilson Ornithological Society.
Andrew Stillman. Travel Award. American Ornithological Society.
Katie Taylor. Student Research Grant. Animal Behavior Society.
Lisa Terlova. Graduate Student Research Award. Society of Systematic Biologists.
Grace Vaziri. Mamont Scholarship. The Explorer’s Club.
Grace Vaziri. Student Research Grant. Animal Behavior Society.
2018
Laura Bizzarri. National Geographic Early Explorers Grant, National Geographic Society.
Laura Bizzarri. Thesis Research Fellowship, Organization for Tropical Studies.
Laura Bizzarri. Grant in Aid of Research, Sigma Xi.
Laura Bizzarri. Student Research Grant, Heliconia Society International.
Elizabeth Clifton. Grant in Aid of Research. Sigma Xi.
Elizabeth Clifton. Research Fellowship. Organization for Tropical Studies (two awards!).
Elizabeth Clifton. Travel Grant. International Union for the Study of Social Insects (IUSSI) & USDA.
Elizabeth Clifton. Student Research Grant. Animal Behavior Society.
Becca Colby. Lerner–Gray Memorial Fund Award for Marine Research. American Museum of Natural History.
Kaitlin Gallagher. Mark Dresden Travel Award. American Society of Parasitologists.
Jacob Kasper. Clark Hubbs Research Assistant Award. American Institute of Fisheries Research Biologists.
Val Milici. Lewis and Clark Research Scholar. American Philosophical Society.
Graham Montgomery. Lewis and Clark Research Scholar. American Philosophical Society.
Kristen Nolting. Graduate Student Research Award. Botanical Society of America.
Dustin Ray. Developmental and Structural Section Travel Award. Botanical Society of America.
Austin Spence. Bleitz Award. American Ornithological Society.
Andrew Stillman. Research Grant. Sierra Foothills Audubon Society.
Andrew Stillman. Lewis and Clark Fund for Exploration and Field Research. American Philosophical Society.
Andrew Stillman. Paul A. Stewart Grant. Wilson Ornithological Society.
Andrew Stillman. Travel Award. American Ornithological Society.
Andrew Stillman. Hesse Award. American Ornithological Society.
Lisa Terlova. Grant–in–Aid of Research award from the Phycological Society of America.
Sumaira Zaman. Travel Award. Galaxy Community Conference.