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Welch Receives ESA’s Graduate Student Policy Award

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The Ecological Society of America announced the six 2016 recipients of its annual Graduate Student Policy Award, and the list includes our own Jessica Welch (McCracken and Simberloff Labs)!  The award winners will travel to Washington, DC, to participate in policy training sessions and meetings with their US Representative and Senators.  On Capitol Hill, they will team with other scientists to discuss with lawmakers the importance of federal funding for the biological sciences, particularly the National Science Foundation.

To view the full press release, please click here.

Award for Pfennigwerth

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Not only did Alix Pfennigwerth (Schweitzer Lab) win a scholarship to support her travel, lodging and registration to attend the Natural Areas Conference, she received an award while she was there!

Pfennigwerth won “best student oral presentation” at the conference in Little Rock, AR, which was held November 3-5.  She presented results from her Master’s work in a talk called, “Inferring response to climate change from natural laboratories: is there convergence in plant functional traits across multiple elevational gradients in Rhododendron maximum?” She discussed how patterns from her field and common garden experiments are relevant to conservation professionals and can be used to inform conservation planning for future natural areas under climate change.

 

Kim Bush (BS 1973), Distinguished Alumnus

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Kim Bush (BS 1973, Zoology) was honored as a Distinguished Alumnus at the Alumni Board Awards dinner on Friday, October 2.  Bush has devoted his life and career to the advancement of global health. After completing a highly successful thirty- three-year career at Baxter International Healthcare Corporation, he was recruited in 2011 to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, where he is the foundation’s director of Life Science Partnerships and serves on the Global Health Leadership Team, working to solve some of the world’s toughest healthcare issues.

The Distinguished Alumnus/Alumna Award is the single highest alumni award given and is reserved for alumni who have excelled at the national or international level. The purpose of this award is to recognize an alumnus of The University of Tennessee who has attained extraordinary distinction and success in his or her field of endeavor, whose achievements have brought credit to The University of Tennessee and benefit to his or her fellow citizens.

 

Scholarship for Pfennigwerth

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Alix Pfennigwerth (Schweitzer Lab) was awarded a Natural Areas Association Student Scholarship to fund her travel, lodging and registration to attend the Natural Areas Conference in Little Rock Arkansas, Nov 3-5, 2015.  She will present results from her EEB Master’s work there. Her talk, called “Inferring response to climate change from natural laboratories: is there convergence in plant functional traits across multiple elevational gradients in Rhododendron maximum?” discusses how patterns from her field and common garden experiments are relevant to conservation professionals and can be used to inform conservation planning for future natural areas under climate change. The award is from the Natural Areas Association with donor support from Bureau of Land Management.

DOE Award for Looney

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Brian Looney (Matheny Lab) has been awarded a US Department of Energy Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) Award for his project “From saprotrophy to symbiosis: comparative genomics and functional diversity of a diverse ectomycorrhizal lineage in the Populus mycorrhizome (Russulaceae, Basidiomycota).”  The SCGSR program provides supplemental funds for graduate awardees to conduct part of their thesis research at a host DOE laboratory in collaboration with a DOE laboratory scientist.  The award period for the proposed research project at DOE laboratories may range from 3 to 12 consecutive months.

Congratulations, Brian!

Outstanding Academic Support- Update

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The College of Arts & Sciences presented staff awards this year, and Marva Anderson received an award for Outstanding Academic Support at the Staff Appreciation party on May 19.  Congratulations! It is a well-deserved honor; EEB could not run without Marva!

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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”.

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.