New Herbarium Director
Jessica Budke has accepted our offer to become an Assistant Professor in EEB and the Director of TENN! She will arrive on campus June 1, 2016.
Archives for April 2016
UPDATE: NSF GRFP Award for Daws; Honorable Mentions for Lash, Ramsey, Dunkirk
One of our alumna has been awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship this year: Sarah Caroline Daws (BS 2015)!
In addition, three EEB students/ alumni have been awarded NSF GRFP Honorable Mentions:
- Chloe Lash (Current graduate student, Kwit Lab);
- Adam Ramsey (BS 2013; now PhD student in Biological Sciences at University of Memphis);
- Nora Dunkirk (BS 2014) [apologies for omitting Ms. Dunkirk in the original post].
Congratulations!
Marathon Finish for Fitzpatrick
Associate Professor Ben Fitzpatrick placed sixth in the Covenant Health Knoxville Marathon on Sunday! His time was 2:58:12. Congratulations, Ben!
Tenure-Track Position for Shah (PhD 2011)
Premal Shah, a PhD student who graduated from EEB in 2011, is now an Assistant Professor of Genetics at Rutgers University, as of January 2016. Congratulations!
New Greenhouse Manager
Jeff Martin will join the Department on 11 April 2015 as the new greenhouse manager.
Jeff received his B.S. From Clemson University in horticulture and has a masters degree in Plant Science from UTK, with a minor in entomology. He has experience with growing a variety of wild, horticultural, and crop plants under greenhouse, garden, and farm conditions (Atlanta Botanical Garden, Clemson Research Greenhouses, AmeriCorp, UT Organic Unit greenhouses and fields) and has experience both in staff management and in working with research faculty, students, volunteers and the public in these diverse settings. As an AmeriCorp volunteer conducted community outreach education, mentoring programs for the public and for at risk youth centered on gardening, and taught K-12 afterschool programs on nutrition, ecology and gardening. Jeff has training in pest management (conventional and IMP with beneficials), plant propagation, and has handled budget, timetable and spreadsheets. The Division of Biology can look forward to working with him in the near future.