Jamie Harrison Awarded Best Student Presentation at Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting
Jamie Harrison, Ph.D. student in the Templer lab, was recently awarded the "Best Student Presentation" by the Biogeoscience group for her talk at the Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting in New Orleans. In her talk, "Effects of climate change across seasons on foliar nitrogen and in situ net mineralization rates in a... More
Kate Mansfield Gives Talk at Symbiosis Society Meeting
PhD student Kate Mansfield gave an invited talk at the 9th International Symbiosis Society Congress held in Corvallis, Oregon from July 15-20, 2018. The title of her talk was "Immunity Transcription Factor NF-kB is Modulated by Symbiotic Status in Aiptasia." Kate is a PhD student in the laboratory of Dr. More
Katey Lesneski Named as a 2018 Switzer Fellow
Katey Lesneski, Ph.D. candidate co-advised by Dr. John Finnerty and Dr. Les Kaufman, was recently named as a 2018 Switzer Fellow. This prestigious fellowship identifies and supports emerging environmental leaders at universities across the nation. The award recognizes Katey's demonstrated commitment to coral reef conservation in the Caribbean over the course of her Ph.D. training... More
2018 Convocation Speakers & Award Winners
Graduating Biology and BMB students were recognized for their academic excellence and research contributions at the Biology and BMB Convocation ceremonies on May 19. At the Biology ceremony Ernest Dimbo served as Student Speaker and a number of awards were given out to graduating seniors including Anjali Oberoi (Senior College Prize for Excellence in Biology);... More
Leah Williams’ Paper Selected among Editor’s Choice Top 10 papers for ISDCI Congress
A paper by Ph.D. candidate Leah Williams in Tom Gilmore's lab was selected as one of ten Editor's Choice papers (from 2015-18) for the 14th International Society for Developmental & Comparative Immunology Congress, June 17th - 21st, 2018 (Santa Fe, New Mexico). The paper, "A conserved Toll-like receptor-to-NF-κB signaling pathway in the endangered coral Orbicella... More
Sanda Zolj Receives Presentation Award at Northeastern Section of the American Society of Plant Biologists Meeting
Ph.D. candidate, Sanda Zolj, of the Celenza lab was recently awarded with the Best Presentation Award Runner-up at the Northeastern Section of the American Society of Plant Biologists meeting held at UMass Amherst this year. Her talk was entitled "The Arabidopsis alf3-1 Mutation Causes Autoimmunity in the Root and Identifies a TIR... More
Elena Newmark Awarded Francis Bacon Award for Writing Excellence in the Natural Sciences
Elena Newmark, Ecology & Conservation Biology Class of 2018, won the Francis Bacon Award for Writing Excellence in the Natural Sciences, for which she was recognized at the Biology Convocation on May 19! The Francis Bacon Award for Writing Excellence in the Natural Sciences is one of four awards the College... More
Nicola El Tom Selected to Participate in Summer Research Program, Station1
Nicola El Tom, Biology Class of 2020, has been selected to join the inaugural 2018 cohort of students in the summer science and technology-based research program, Summer@Station1. Station1 has a mission of providing frontier, socially-directed, science and technology-focused research and internships to students nationwide. Nicola was selected from hundreds of applicants... More
Sarah Yunes Receives Outstanding Teaching Fellow Award for Biology, 2017/2018
MCBB Ph.D. candidate, Sarah Yunes, of the Hansen lab was awarded the Outstanding Teaching Fellow of the Year for Biology, academic year 2017/2018. Sarah has served for eight semesters as a teaching fellow in Biology, including for BI 107 and 108 (Biology 1 and 2), two of the largest and broadest... More
Sasha Vivelo Awarded Mycological Society of America Graduate Fellowship
Ph.D. candidate, Sasha Vivelo, of the Bhatnagar lab was recently awarded a $2,000 Mycological Society of America Graduate Fellowship for her plan of study titled "Determining the Patterns and Drivers of Fungal Decomposer Succession." This award will help to cover cDNA sample sequencing for transcriptome analysis.