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Department of Biology
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Recent Department News Happy Birthday Darwin!! On February 12th, the Department celebrated the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin with a party, complete with cake with Chuck's likeness. A few faculty, staff, and students who showed up early for the cake cutting are shown. Mercedes Burns '06 is Awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Mike Anderson Publishes Paper Mike Anderson recently published a paper in Oecologia, an international ecology journal, based on his ongoing PhD dissertation research: Anderson MD, Ruess RW, Myrold DD, Taylor DL Host Species and Habitat Affect Nodulation by Specific Frankia Genotypes in Two Species of Alnus in Interior Alaska. Oecologia (in press). Watson Fellowship Awarded to Skadi von Reis Crooks '09 Skadi von Reis Crooks, a senior Biology major has been awarded a Watson Fellowship for next year. Skadi was one of only forty Watson recipients nationwide this year. The Watson Fellowship is a one year grant for international travel and study. Skadi will be traveling to Canada, Sweden, Spain, and Turkey studying how people's attitudes about wolves affects their conservation and protection as well as related issues of resource extraction, rural livelihoods and indigenous rights issues. Congratulations Skadi! Kristi Curry Rogers - Scientist of the Month Professor Curry Rogers has been named one of four Scientists of the Month on the Year of Science website www.yearofscience2009.org/ Mark Davis Publishes Book on Invasion Biology Professor Davis's book on biological invasions, Invasion Biology, has just been published by Oxford University Press. In the book, Davis describes the ecology of biological invasions, their impacts (health, economic, and ecological) and efforts to try to manage and reduce undesirable impacts. In addition, he critically reviews the development of the field of invasion biology during the past twenty-five years. Sarah Boyer and Student Present at National Meeting Professor Boyer, presented a talk at the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology meeting held recently in Boston. Titled "Comparative phylogeography and DNA barcoding of freshwater mussels," her presentation described research she conducted, along with coauthors Suzy Szumowski '09, Alex Howe '09, Mark Hove, and Dan Hornbach. Boyer also chaired the Population Genetics and Biogeography session at the meeting. In addition, Szumowski presented a poster, "A comparison of genetic variation between populations of pocketbook and pimpleback mussels above and below the St. Croix Falls dam (Minnesota/Wisconsin, USA)" authored by herself, Boyer, Hornbach, and Hove. not quite so recent Department news
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Mercedes Burns '06, a graduate student in the Entomology Department at
the University of Maryland has been awarded a Graduate Research
Fellowship from the National Science Foundation. These
highly competitive fellowships provide three years of
stipend, tuition remission, travel money, and access to the NSF-funded
TeraGrid
Supercomputer. Mercedes is researching the evolution of mating behavior
in harvestmen (aka daddy longlegs).|
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