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April 2014

Archives for April 2014

EEB Awards

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EEB held its annual awards ceremony on Monday April 27.  Congratulations to our departmental award winners!

  • The Jim Tanner Award (Outstanding Dissertation):  Sara Kuebbing
  • The Sandy Echternacht Award (Outstanding Teaching by a Graduate Student):  Liam Mueller
  • Outstanding Undergraduate:  Brandy Pieper
  • Outstanding Undergraduate Research:  Su’ad Yoon
  • Undergraduate Award for Professional Promise: Sneha Patel
  • Outstanding Publication by a Graduate Student: Rafael Zenni
  • Outstanding Outreach & Community Service:  Quentin Read
  • Outstanding Master’s Thesis:  Max Rupp
  • Best Progress Toward Dissertation:  Jessica Moore

Simberloff Receives SEC Faculty Achievement Award

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Daniel Simberloff was honored with the 2014 SEC Faculty Achievement Award, the SEC announced Wednesday. The SEC award recognizes professors from Southeastern Conference schools with outstanding records in teaching and scholarship. Honorees from each university receive a $5,000 honorarium and become their university’s nominee for the SEC Professor of the Year Award, to be recognized at the SEC spring meetings in May and SEC Symposium in September.

For more information, please read the full Tennessee Today article.

Sigma Xi Grant-in-Aid of Research

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Kenna-RewcastleEEB Undergraduate Kenna Rewcastle has won a highly-competitive Sigma Xi Grant-in-Aid of Research award.  Only about 20% of applicants receive funding.  Kenna is working with the Classen Lab in Copenhagen. She will be working on the Swedish gradient this summer.

 

 

Zenni et al. Article

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Graduate Student Rafael Zenni has a new paper in Ecology Letters, entitled “Rapid evolution and range expansion of an invasive plant are driven by provenance–environment interactions” (pdf available here). Ecology Letters is the top journal in the ecological sciences.

Rafael D. Zenni, Joseph K. Bailey, and Daniel Simberloff. 2014.  “Rapid evolution and range expansion of an invasive plant are driven by provenance–environment interactions.”  Ecology Letters.  doi: 10.1111/ele.12278.

Gavrilets Paper in Nature Communications

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Sergey Gavrilets recently had paper on “altruistic bullies” come out in Nature Communications:
http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2014/140326/ncomms4526/full/ncomms4526.html

The work has been discussed in Time Magazine: “Science Proves It: Greed Is Good”
http://time.com/41680/greed-is-good-science-proves/

and in Science Daily: “Altruistic side of aggressive greed”
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/03/140326092600.htm

as well as in several international venues.  Congrats Sergey!