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Julian G. Cambronero, Ph.D., was awarded the title of "Honorary Professor" at Southern Medical University in Guangzhou, China, on April 10, 2012. He was nominated by Dr. Hong-Juan Peng, a visiting professor in Dr.

Samantha (Sam) Davis, a second-year ES Ph.D. student in the laboratory of Don Cipollini, has received a second competitive Botany-in-Action fellowship from Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens in Pittsburgh, PA.

ES Ph.D. student Angie Clayton and her advisor, Dr. Chuck Ciampaglio are co-chairing the Annual North Central Section meeting of the Geological Society of America to be held in Dayton, OH April 23-24, 2012.

Dr. Kathryn Barto, a 2008 graduate of the ES Ph.D. program, landed a tenure-track faculty job in the Department of Biology at Xavier University. She spent the last three and a half years at the Freie-Univeristat, Berlin, doing postdoctoral research on the ecology of mycorrhizal fungi.

First year ES Ph.D. student, Chad Rigsby, had research he conducted as an undergraduate at Wittenberg University featured on the website, asknature.com, a site associated with the Biomimicry Institute dedicated to finding inspiration for designers, architects, chemists and engineers in nature.