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EEB/NIMBioS at USA Science and Engineering Festival

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Sarah Wood, undergraduate in the Classen lab, teaches elementary students how to measure plant traits.





The USA Science and Engineering Festival on April 28 and 29 in Washington, DC brought the excitement of science to people from around the country. EEB and NIMBioS teamed up and presented two booths in the festival. Emily Austin and Jessica Bryant, Classen lab graduate students, taught Science Fest attendees about fungal decomposition of wood using decaying logs in terrariums. Sarah Wood, an undergraduate in the Classen Lab, and Kelly Sturner, education and outreach coordinator in NIMBioS, taught visitors about intra- and inter-specific variation in Solidago plants by having them measure stem and leaf traits. Both booths encouraged observations, data collection and graphical analysis. Many Science Fest attendees were families with elementary or middle school-aged children, but several teachers were there to pick up science project ideas for their classrooms. In all, an estimated 300,000 people left the event having learned at least one thing: science is exciting!

Dan Simberloff elected to National Academy of Sciences

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Gore Hunger Professor of Environmental Science Dan Simberloff (see also Wikipedia entry), a member of the EEB department, was recently elected to the National Academy of Sciences. According to the NAS website:

“Members are elected to the National Academy of Sciences in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. Membership is a widely accepted mark of excellence in science and is considered one of the highest honors that a scientist can receive.…

“The NAS membership totals approximately 2,200 members and 400 foreign associates, of whom approximately 200 have received Nobel prizes.”

There are only eight other National Academy of Sciences members in Tennessee, only one of whom was elected in the past decade. Dr. Simberloff is the only current faculty member from any University of Tennessee campus in the Academy.

Grad student awards

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The following EEB students received awards from Biology (open to all UTK biology departments):

Hollaender Award
Phillip Hollingsworth
Science Alliance Award
Katie Stuble
Mariano Rodriguez-Cabal
M. Noelia Barrios-Garcia
Cokkinias Award
Romina Dimarco

Grad student awards

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The following EEB students received awards from Biology (open to all UTK biology departments):

Hollaender Award
Phillip Hollingsworth
Science Alliance Award
Katie Stuble
Mariano Rodriguez-Cabal
M. Noelia Barrios-Garcia
Cokkinias Award
Romina Dimarco

Dr. Roland Bagby passes away

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Dr. Roland Bagby, a professor emeritus of the former zoology department (now part of EEB), passed away on Monday, April 2. A memorial service is planned at Cedar Springs Presbyterian Church at 7 pm on Thursday, April 12. For more information about Dr. Bagby, please see here. Links to some of his publications are here.

Bagby, R.M, A. M. Young, R. S. Dotson, B. A. Fisher, and K. McKinnon. 1971. “Contraction of single smooth muscle cells from Bufo marinus stomach” Nature 234: 351-352.

Dr. Roland Bagby passes away

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Dr. Roland Bagby, a professor emeritus of the former zoology department (now part of EEB), passed away on Monday, April 2. A memorial service is planned at Cedar Springs Presbyterian Church at 7 pm on Thursday, April 12. For more information about Dr. Bagby, please see here. Links to some of his publications are here.

Bagby, R.M, A. M. Young, R. S. Dotson, B. A. Fisher, and K. McKinnon. 1971. “Contraction of single smooth muscle cells from Bufo marinus stomach” Nature 234: 351-352.