Awards and recognition of faculty, staff, students and alumni of the CWRU Biology department.

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Biology Graduate Students Awarded GCAS GSSCE Grants

Three graduate students in the biology department were recently awarded GCAS Graduate Student Scholarship and Creative Endeavor Grants for their work in their respective fields Manish Sarkar "Context-dependent coexistence of social parasites: fungus-growing ant communities as a case study" Elizabeth Rush "A Novel Preclinical Mouse Model for Neonatal Marfan Syndrome Exhibits...

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PhD Student Yun Ye Ho Awarded Grant from Society of Systematic Biologists for Work on Ground-Fruiting Figs

PhD student Yun Ye Ho (Gardner Lab) received a Graduate Student Research Award ($3,000) from the Society of Systematic Biologists for proposal entitled "Underground Underdogs: unveiling the phylogenetics and pollination biology of Southeast Asian earth figs, Figs, Ficus subser. Geocarpicae (Moraceae), in Borneo." Yun Ye's research focuses on the...

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Aruni Kadawatha Wins Hackathon Award

PhD Candidate Aruni Kadawatha participated in the first-ever hackathon organized by the Society for Ecological Restoration (SER). Her team included six members from different countries, including the United States, Canada, Indonesia, and Singapore. Together, they developed an Integrated Monitoring, Reporting, and Verification (MRV) Kit for Riparian Restoration, which combines...

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