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At the annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America meeting during August 1-6 in Pittsburgh, eight ES Ph.D. faculty and four ES Ph.D. students were coauthors on a total of 12 oral and poster presentations. ES Ph.D. faculty were also co-organizers of 3 organized oral sessions.

Laxminath Tumburu successfully defended his dissertation on August 6, entitled “Crustacean endocrine disruption through a pathway involving nuclear receptors, cyclic nucleotides, and calcium transporters”. He was advised by Dr. Michele Wheatly, current provost at West Virginia University.

Amy Burgin (EES) was recently awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation’s Ecosystems panel. The project is a collaborative effort between Burgin and Dr. Emily Bernhardt (Duke University) and Dr. Geoff Poole (Montana State University).

The nomination letter from the physics department concluded with the following words:

Dr. Julian Gomez-Cambronero was invited to serve as a member of the Innate Immunity and Inflammation Study Section (National Institutes of Health) for a four-year term beginning in late 2009

Kevin Kelley, M.D./Ph.D., student in Dr. Berberich's lab was awarded the 2010 Academy of Medicine Outstanding Student Research Award.

Madhu Mahankali received the Biomedical Sciences Ph.D. program's Graduate Student Excellence Award for the 2009-10 academic year. Madhu is completing her Ph.D. thesis in Dr.

Laura Rigsbee, a master's student in Dr. Paliy's lab, received the biochemistry and molecular biology department's Graduate Student Excellence Award for the 2009-10 academic year.

Dr. David Montgomery from the University of Washington will present the inaugural Wayne Carmichael Lecture in Environmental Sciences on "Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations".

Lecture Information:

May 11, 2010

The Environmental Sciences Ph.D. Program has selected Christina Powell as this year's recipient of the Graduate Student Excellence Award. The School of Graduate Studies will once again present the Graduate Student Excellence Awards and Recognition Program on Wednesday, May 5, 2010 at 5 p.m.