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Burghardt in the News

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Congratulations to Gordon Burghardt – his new paper is getting press on Science Newsline and Phys.org!  The senior author of the paper, Paul Weldon, received his PhD in Zoology at UK.  Gordon was his dissertation adviser.  You can read the UT press release, here..

The paper is called, “Evolving détente: the origin of warning signals via concurrent reciprocal selection,” in the Biological Journal of the Linnean Society.

Societal Impact Award for Ward

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Congratulations to Shelby Ward (Armsworth Lab) who was selected to receive the Margaret “Tina” Riedinger Societal Impact Award for the First Annual Women in STEM Research Symposium for your significant contribution to the research finding or technological innovation that has resulted in, or has great potential to have, a positive impact on society in the presentation entitled: “Exploring how Clean Water Act enforcement influences stream macro-invertebrate communities”.

NSF Grant for O’Meara

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Brian O’Meara is co-PI on a newly funded, nearly $1 million NSF grant entitled “Collaborative Research: ABI Development: An open infrastructure to disseminate phylogenetic knowledge.” Brian’s part is to make trees with time information more available, and includes funds for a postdoc (~$140K for UT). Congratulations, Brian!

Division of Biology Awards

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EEB congratulates our graduate students who won awards from UT’s Division of Biology!

  • Brian Looney received The Hollaender Fellowship Award.
  • Zach Marion, Riley Bernard, and Quentin Read received Science Alliance Graduate Student Teaching Awards.
  • Marisol Sanchez-Garcia received a Cokkinias Award.

A Bat Abode

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Gary McCracken and Emma Wilcox (FWF) have received a Community Engagement Incentive Grant  to build a bat house over in the UT Gardens.  The house will be large, about the size of a faculty office, and raised on stilts.  McCracken hopes to attract Mexican free-tailed bats (Tadarida brasiliensis) to the house.  These insectivorous bats often roost in large numbers.