Three members of the Department of Biology recently received awards.
Nicholas Kathman, post doc in Jessica Fox's lab: First prize at showCASE postdoc poster competition.
Alexandra Yarger, graduate student in Jessica Fox's lab: Honorable mention in showCASE graduate student poster competition and won an International Society for Neuroethology, Heiligenberg Student Travel Award.
David Berstch, graduate student...
Awards and Recognition
Graduate Student Riley Tedrow was awarded the William J. Lechel II Memorial Scholarship for the best student presentation at the 2018 Annual Michigan Mosquito Control Conference for his talk
"A Bioplex Assay for the Simultaneous Detection of Mosquito Species, Host, and Plasmodium Parasites in Malagasy Anopheles Mosquitoes"
Dr Robin Snyder is the recipient of the American Society of Naturalists Presidential Award for best paper published in the American Naturalists in 2016. The paper: "We happy few: Using structured population models to identify the decisive events in the lives of exceptional individuals" can be found here:
http://amnat.org/an/newpapers/AugSnyder.html
The Department of Biology's Dr. Rich Drushel was this year's recipient of the Wittke Award.
The Carl F. Wittke Award was established in 1971 in honor of Carl Wittke, a former faculty member, dean and vice president of Western Reserve University. The Wittke Award is presented each year to two...