We’ve had many successful defenses of dissertations and theses over the past few months. Check out the recent topics they defended below. Rada Petric defended her Ph.D. dissertation research in March Title: Do physiological and environmental factors influence vocal communication and associated behaviors in Peromyscus? Advisor: Dr. Matina Kalcounis-Rueppell Date:… Continue reading…
Ellis Torrance, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Biology Environmental Health Sciences doctoral program, was awarded a Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship providing four years of a yearly stipend, full coverage of tuition and fees, annual travel allowance, and supplemental income to attend really cool supercomputing conferences… Continue reading…
In the past two years our highly competitive faculty have been awarded more than $5,000,000 in prestigious research funding from federal agencies like the National Institute of Health, National Science Foundation, and the United States Department of Agriculture. Some examples of recently funded research projects are below. Acquiring… Continue reading…
Julia Taylor Morton Distinguished Professor Emerita Dr. Anne E. Hershey has been awarded an NC Sea Grant Mini-Grant for the project titled “The Impact of Antibiotics on Stream Nitrate Removal via Denitrification”. The proposal was written in collaboration with Ph.D. candidate Austin Gray and will serve to fund the final… Continue reading…
Dr. Bobay was awarded a grant from NIH (5 years of funding). He was the lead PI on the grant and Dr. Daniel Schrider from UNC-CH was Co-PI. The total amount is about 1.8M. The title of the proposal is “Investigating the impact and patterns of homologous recombination and adaptive… Continue reading…
I hope you have had a nice summer and fall this year. I am excited to tell you about what has been happening in the Department of Biology at UNCG since last spring. We are in a lively phase of growth and change driven by our outstanding faculty and students.
What happens when you combine a passion for plant identification, cognitive psychology, software development, and research? You get award-winning biology professor Bruce Kirchoff, PhD, and his co-developed open source software, which provides simple, visual learning tools for science students and professors—for free. Read more here!
One of our PhD students, Yener Ulus, has had his work featured by the Water Resources Research Institute of the UNC System at https://wrri.ncsu.edu/blog/2019/11/mercury-on-the-rise/. Yener is in Dr. Martin Tsui’s lab.
Austin Gray attended the 40th Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) North America Annual Meeting last week in Toronto. At the meeting Austin was awarded a Presidential Citation for his exemplary service to the society as co-founder of the society’s first Inclusive Diversity Committee. Austin was also recognized for… Continue reading…
John Z. Kiss received a NASA Honor Award under the Group Achievement Award category. This prestigious NASA certificate is awarded to any combination of Government and/or non-Government individuals for an outstanding group accomplishment that has contributed substantially to NASA’s mission. For a description of the award, see: https://nasapeople.nasa.gov/awards/nasamedals.htm The award is specifically for: “outstanding… Continue reading…
