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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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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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