Congratulations to Dr. Olav Rueppell on his recent grant awards; the first is from USDA APHIS for a project titled Virus Infection in Honey Bee Colonies: Infection Dynamics and Social Immunity. The second is from the US DOD Army Research Office. This is an equipment grant for the UNCG Plant and Pollinator… Continue reading…
Congratulations to Dr. Zhenquan Jia and his collaborators at Campbell University for a project funded by the NIH and titled Activating Multiorgan Antioxidative Gene Network for Treating Sepsis.
The 2018 College of Arts and Sciences’ End of Year Celebration was held on 30 April 2018. The Biology Department was represented by: Omar Raya received a College Staff Excellence Award. Dr. Ramji Bhandari received a Candace Bernard and Robert Glickman Dean’s Professorship in the College of Arts and Sciences… Continue reading…
Dr. Esther Leise and Dr. Parke Rublee were honored as retirees at this year’s College of Arts and Sciences’ End of Year Celebration. Dr. Leise will be retiring after 27 years, and Dr. Rublee will be retiring after 28 years.
Austin Gray took second place for best platform presentation at Carolinas Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry! His platform was “The presence of human and veterinary antibiotics in rural/urban streams and rural groundwater of North Carolina.” This is an investigation of antibiotic pollution in the Piedmont of North Carolina streams… Continue reading…
The work of Dean Kiss is the feature article of the Spring 2018 edition of UNCG Research Magazine, found here. Graduate researcher profile on Austin Gray found here. Story about Dr. Ramji Bhandari and his lab’s work can be found here.
Congratulations to Yener Ulus, one of our PhD students, on his award at last week’s Graduate Research Expo. His project was titled How does seawater intrusion affect mercury cycling in our coastal plain wetlands? Yener is in Dr. Martin Tsui’s lab.
Just how dirty is a used car? Check out this Car and Driver story featuring our own Dr. Robert Cannon and Laura Fondario Grubbs! The answer just might surprise you!
Dr. Sally Koerner has been awarded a grant from the US Department of Agriculture for her project “Identifying mechanisms of rangeland drought resilience: management strategies for sustainable ecosystem health”. We wish her all the success on this project and look forward to the results in the coming years. Please join us in… Continue reading…
Please join us in congratulating Rada Petric on being the 2018 recipient of the Robert R. Bryden Graduate Research Award from the North Carolina Academy of Science. Rada is a PhD candidate and is receiving the award based on one of her chapters entitled: The Effects of Broadband Anthropogenic Noise… Continue reading…
