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• Apr. 24, 2007: Tsitsi McPherson has just learned that she has been awarded a Prance Fellowship in Neotropical Botany by the Kew Latin America Research Fellowships Committee (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew), for her proposal "Ecology and Evolutionary Biology: Protecting Biodiversity in Guyana - a proposal for a flexible yet robust methodology for the design and evaluation of National Parks using spatially clustered data." The Fellowship covers all expenses for Tstsi to spend May-July at Kew, west of London, studying material from Guyana in the Kew Herbarium
• Apr. 4, 2007: Eric Schultz's Master's Ontogeny and Doctoral Ontogeny checklists for documenting graduate degree progress have been added to EEBedia.
• Apr. 2, 2007: Congratulations to Jen Murphy for receiving the Northeast Regional One Academic Advising Excellence Award at the Northeast Advising meeting last week.
• Apr. 2, 2007: Jason Hill won the Lynds Jones Award for Best Poster Presentation by a graduate student at the recent annual meeting of the Wilson Ornithological Society.
• Mar. 27, 2007: Congratulations to Kent Holsinger for receiving this year’s AAUP Service Excellence Award, which recognizes his many contributions to the department, the University, the scientific community, and organizations such as AIBS, BioOne, and the Nature Conservancy, among many others.
• Mar. 27, 2007: Trina Bayard is this year's recipient of the Frances M. Peacock Scholarship for native bird habitat from the Garden Club of America.
• Mar. 26, 2007: Krissa Skogen just learned that she has been accepted to the Environmental Leadership Program Greater Boston Network Class of 2007. "ELP's primary goal is to train and support the next generation of environmental leaders both within and beyond its flagship national initiative, the ELP Fellowship".
• Mar. 31, 2007: On the last day of March, sixteen EEB graduate students will present the results of recent research in the 17th annual Graduate Student Symposium. The event will take place in BSP room 130 from 9am to 4pm. For details, titles and abstracts, see the web page.
• Mar. 15, 2007: John Cooley was awarded close to $20,000 from National Geographic to map the locations of periodical cicadas in 2007 and 2008 using computer-based GPS dataloggers and detailed base maps. His web accessible database will allow users to plot range maps from self-selected data points.
• Mar. 15, 2007: The EEB Greenhouses will be featured in the 2007 Premiere episode of CPTV's Positively CT hosted by Diane Smith. The program will air on March 26th at 9pm and again on March 31st at 6:30pm.
• Mar. 15, 2007: Trina Bayard has been awarded one of the three Mewaldt-King Awards given out this year by the Cooper Ornithological Society.
• Mar. 5, 2007: Michael Moody has accepted a faculty position at the University of Western Australia beginning July 2007.
• Mar. 1, 2007: Rachel Prunier has been awarded a Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant.
• Feb. 26, 2007: The EEB Greenhouses exhibited dozens of interesting specimens from the living collections at the CT Flower and Garden Show held this past weekend at the Connecticut Convention Center in Hartford. Greenhouse Manager Clinton Morse was on hand all four days to answer questions from the public. The Greenhouses will also be exhibiting at the 16th Annual CPTV Family Science Expo to be held at the Connecticut Expo Center in late April.
• Feb. 10, 2007: The EEB Greenhouses donated numerous large carnivorous plants to the new Roger Williams Botanical Center in nearby Providence, RI. The new conservatory opens to the public on March 2nd. EEBs own Matt Opel took part in the installation of the carnivorous plant bog garden along with other members of the New England Carnivorous Plant Society.
• Feb. 9, 2007: Susan Letcher is the first place winner of the Wallace Stevens Poetry Contest! Congratulations Susan.
• The Graduate Student Handbook has now been incorporated into the EEBedia. You can (and should!) edit it if you spot inaccuracies.
• Feb. 6, 2007: Paul Lewis will demonstrate how to create and edit pages in the EEBedia from 11am until noon on Thursday (Feb. 8) in the Bamford room (TLS 171b)
• Jan. 29, 2007: EEB grads: if you haven't done so already (but want to), upload your photo for the EEB website here
• Jan. 27, 2007: The EEB Greenhouses are now open to the public on Saturdays through April. Tell your friends and families to stop by and check them out. Also look for an associated article in this weeks Advance.
• Jan. 26, 2007: Doctoral student Hilary McManus successfully defended her dissertation research. Congratulations Hilary!
• Jan. 22, 2007: A new special collections page was added to the EEB Greenhouse website listing the plants in our collections that are the national flowers of their respective countries
• Jan. 22, 2007: A data jack was installed in the Bamford Room this morning
• Jan. 12, 2007: Diego Sustaita was awarded the best student paper award from the Division of Vertebrate Morphology of the Society of Integrative and Comparative Biologists for the talk he delivered last week at the annual meeting
• Jan. 9, 2007: A data jack will be installed in the Bamford Room by the end of this week. It will be installed at the front of the room on the wall with the screen to facilitate presentations.