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Teaching Award for Hendy

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Justin Hendy (Small Lab) received an award for Outstanding Graduate Teaching during the 2016 Graduate and Professional Student Appreciation Week at UT.  He received the award for his work as the BioLit 150 head teaching assistant. To quote the program from the award ceremony:

“Justin has taught Biology 150 discussion sections and has served as the head teaching assistant for the last three semesters.  His leadership extends to not only preparing the GTAs each week, but also to making revisions and changes to the curriculum as needed.  He is a caring and thoughtful teacher and an excellent organizer / leader.”

Congratulations, Justin!

Lash Receives Mountain Lake Biological Station Fellowship

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Chloe Lash (Kwit Lab) has been awarded a fellowship to conduct research on ant seed dispersal this summer at Mountain Lake Biological Station (MLBS) through the University of Virginia’s Horton H. Hobbs, Jr. Endowment Fund. The fellowship provides up to $3,500 towards room, board, and user fees at the station. There, Chloe will also be serving as a mentor for MLBS’s long-running NSF-supported Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program, where she will advise an undergraduate awardee’s work on ant seed dispersal.

UPDATE: NSF GRFP Award for Daws; Honorable Mentions for Lash, Ramsey, Dunkirk

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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!

New Greenhouse Manager

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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.

Riechert Receives 2016 SEC Faculty Achievement Award

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Professor Susan Riechert has received the 2016 SEC Faculty Achievement Award!  The SEC award recognizes professors from the fourteen 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 view the full press release, click here.

http://tntoday.utk.edu/2016/03/30/riechert-receives-2016-sec-faculty-achievement-award/

Lampley Receives Graduate Research Assistantship

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Jayne Lampley (Schilling Lab) is one of just 26 graduate students across UT who have received a 2016 Summer Graduate Research Assistantship from The Office of Research and Engagement.  The GRAs are funded by the Scholarly and Research Incentive Funds. Selected faculty projects receive $3,600 in support of student stipends for work completed during the summer.

Her project is called “Analysis of an Evolutionary Radiation in Trillium.”

Congratulations!

Williams, Edwards, and Ramsey in the American Journal of Botany

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Prof. Joe Williams is the organizer of a special issue of the American Journal of Botany and lead author on the cover paper.

The issue also features a paper from Joe that has two undergraduate alumni co-authors (Jacob A. Edwards and Adam J. Ramsey), both now in graduate schools elsewhere.  The work was completed while they were students at UT.

Congratulations!