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A 2015 Carlos C. Campbell Fellowship, from the Great Smoky Mountains Conservation Association, was awarded to Riley Bernard (McCracken Lab, collaborating with Emma Willcox (FWF)) for the project titled “Further Investigation of the Winter Behavior of Bats at Hibernation Sites in Great Smoky Mountains National Park: Habitat use During the White-Nose Syndrome Epizootic.”
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The 65th annual Spring Wildflower Pilgrimage is April 21 to 25, 2015. This event in Great Smoky Mountains National Park and nearby Gatlinburg features a variety of wildflower, fauna, and natural history walks, motorcades, photographic tours, art classes, and indoor seminars. Registration starts Feb. 14 and continues until April 11.
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Darwin Day is an international, annual event to celebrate the science of Charles Darwin and promote science education. UT has been hosting one for nearly 20 years. This year’s event features talks on invasive species (by EEB Prof. Sandy Echternacht), a talk on bird evolution (EPS Assistant Prof. Colin Sumrall) and keynote on biogeography by author Alan de Queiroz. The full schedule of events is at http://darwindaytn.org.
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Congratulations to Brian Looney (Matheny Lab)! His NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant (DDIG) will be funded!
DISSERTATION RESEARCH: Systematics, diversification, and functional maintenance of trophic mode in Russula (Russulales)
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Hey, Undergrads… don’t forget that there is a whole EEB webpage devoted to research opportunities (REU’s, summer field assistants, etc.) at http://eeb.bio.utk.edu/undergraduate-research-opportunities/. Check it out regularly, so you don’t miss the deadline for the experience you want!
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Gordon Burghardt’s work is featured in a New York Times piece: Learning from Animal Friendships
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Gary McCracken will be interviewing tomorrow (Wednesday 1/14) on the NPR radio show “On Point with Tom Ashbrook.” This show is a call-in format that airs live from 11 AM – 12 Noon. We’ll be talking about bats, Ebola, and hopefully bat conservation.
Here are directives to the show from NPR: The site for our hour is located at this link: http://wbur.fm/14S6wjq
We’re located on Twitter @OnPointRadio and on Facebook at Facebook.com/OnPointRadio. Our host, Tom Ashbrook, tweets @TomAshbrookNPR. Feel free to direct your friends and followers to the show on any digital platform that works best for you. #OnPointRadio
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The Matheny Lab has two new publications coming out this week, describing SIX new genera of fungi! Congratulations!
Sanchez-Garcia et al. 2014 Deconstructing the Tricholomataceae (Agaricales) and introduction of the new genera Albomagister, Corneriella, Pogonoloma and Pseudotricholoma
Matheny et al. 2014 Crassisporium and Romagnesiella: two new genera of dark-spored Aragricales
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PhD student Courtney Gorman (Bailey Lab), Jen Schweitzer, and Joe Bailey recently published an article in PLoS One that’s making the news! Their paper finds that saving endemic species is important for ecosystems. Follow this link to read the full article.
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UPDATE: The local NPR station, WUOT, aired an interview with Gordon Burghardt on October 24 for the program, Changing Course. Burghardt discussed play throughout the animal world and his pregame showcase.
Alumni Distinguished Service Professor Gordon Burghardt is known for his research on animal behavior, particularly playing behavior in taxa that are not thought to play. His research on play in cichlid fish has been featured recently in the international press.
This Saturday, Burghardt will be talking about the importance of play at the Pregame Showcase, prior to the football game against the Alabama Crimson Tide. The showcase will begin at 5:30 p.m., two hours before kickoff, in the Carolyn P. Brown University Center Ballroom (Room 213). The showcase is free and open to the public, and it features a thirty-minute presentation followed by a fifteen-minute question-and-answer session. A brief reception will be held after the program, and a door prize will be awarded.