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Manish Sarkar wins Trailblazing Award at the 2026 Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting

Manish Sarkar, currently a PhD candidate in the Abbott lab, was awarded the Trailblazing Diversity and Inclusion Award by the Ecological Society of America in Salt Lake City, Utah this past July. As a theoretical ecologist, he uses mathematical and computational models to investigate ecological questions and better understand the...

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Alicia Matthews from the Fortenberry Lab Receives the American Society of Hematology Graduate Student Award

Congratulations to our very own Alicia Matthews for being selected by the American Society of Hematology to receive the ASH Hematology Inclusion Pathway (HIP) Graduate Student Award—a national honor recognizing promising early‑career hematology researchers. This two‑year fellowship provides $40,000 in research funding, supporting Alicia’s work to develop a novel RNA‑based...

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Sam Harbol Receives Best Student Proposal Award for Oglebay Small Grants Program

PhD candidate Sam Harbol from the Burns lab recently received the "Best Student Proposal" award for the Oglebay Small Grants program. The Oglebay Small Grants programs funds research conducted at the Squire Valleevue and Valley Ridge Farms. Sam's proposal details his experiment to manipulate the precipitation pattern using rainout...

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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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