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Behzad Ghanbarian, a second-year ES Ph.D. student and his research director, Prof. Allen Hunt are organizing a symposium entitled "Complexity in Disordered Porous Media" at the EUROSOIL 2012 meeting in Italy from July 2-6.

Dr. Julian G. Cambronero was invited to present at a Gordon Research Conference on Phagocytes held at the Davidson College, in Davidson, N.C., June 19-24.

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Dr. Julian G. Cambronero's laboratory has discovered that the enzyme phospholipase D2 (PLD2) binds directly to the small GTPase Rac2.

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Jeremy Heath, advised by John Stireman, was selected as the graduate excellence award nominee for the Environmental Sciences Ph.D. program for the 2010-2011 academic year. Jeremy is studying the evolutionary ecology of the interaction of goldenrod plants with a gall-forming midge.

At a recent joint meeting of the Kentucky Invasive Species Council and the Southeast Exotic Plant Pest Council in Lexington, KY, third-year ES Ph.D. student, Deah Lieurance, won an Outstanding Oral Presentation Award. This honor came with a cash award of $150.