Kathryn Barto, who will graduate in Spring 2008 as the second graduate of the ES Ph.D. program, was recently honored as our program's recipient of the Graduate Excellence award for 2008 from the School of Graduate Studies. Kathryn is often recognized as the leader of her cohort and is a recipient of a competitive EPA GRO fellowship. She tackled a controversial topic in plant ecology and mastered a wide array of techniques and statistical tools in her research, which she can eloquently describe in presentations and in writing. She has published four papers based on her work here at Wright State so far, with more in preparation. Kathryn was recently offered two post-doctoral positions as a result of her work and has accepted one at the Free University in Berlin, Germany, an arrangement that extended from collaborations outside of WSU that she fostered during her Ph.D. Kathryn is advised by Dr. Don Cipollini in the Department of Biological Sciences.
Congratulations to Kathryn on this well-deserved award!
