Congratulations to UNC Biology undergraduate student Emma Rudy Srebnik on receiving a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) from the Office of Undergraduate Research (OUR) to work with the Bruno lab in the Galapagos this summer on juvenile shark ecology!
Congratulations to Bruno lab member and UNC Biology graduate student Isabel Silva on receiving the Laurel Clark Sea to Space Award, a grant from the Women Divers Hall of Fame, to support her research on Galapagos subtidal reef communities! Read more about the award here.
Congratulations to Todd Vision for receiving the American Society of Naturalists Presidential Award for Outstanding Service to the Community, for his role in the development of Dryad! This honor was founded for the occasion as a way to recognize the instrumental role that Todd played in creating this critical resource for data sharing and archiving.
Read more about it here.
Congratulations to the following Spring 2022 Phi Beta Kappa inductees:
Amber Mercedes Amparo
Serenity Jade Bennett
Zachary Allen Benson
Roarke William Burton
Megan Brienne Butler
Anne Marie Cawley
David Collins
Clara Aku Dartey-Hayford
David William Dingfelder
Carla Francisca Escobar
Noah Garrett Evenson
Nare Ghaltakhchyan
Carolyn Hsin-Tong Hsu
Chufan Andrew Jin
John Christopher Kees
Kiran Kelly-Rajan
Juliette Danielle Marie-Ange Levet
Christopher Lee Lyn
Jacob George Maniattu
Harshini Matada
Vanessa Mesmer
Mable Y Miao
Rachel Elizabeth Musa
Urvi Patel
Rachel Lynn Patterson
Riley Alexander Picken
Aryan Akhilesh Rai
Catherine Breanna Sauter
Megan Ashleigh Stolarik
Abigail Kathryn Trocinski
Katherine Elizabeth Trowbridge
Priya Lakshmi Vadlamudi
Lauren Elizabeth Wall
Jeremiah Zerui Xu
Emma Tsao Zhang
Zhiyue Zhang
To learn more about Phi Beta Kappa, visit their website.
Delaney O’Connell and Stephanie Peak, current Department of Biology graduate students, have been awarded NSF GRFPs! Delaney’s research is in magnetoreception and navigation, and simulation of behavior and migration, and is advised by Brian Taylor. Stephanie’s research focuses on coral ecophysiology, genetics, and symbioses, and is co-advised by Christopher Willett and Karl Castillo. A big congratulations to both of them!
Congratulations to Dr. Mara Evans on winning one of the 2022 Chapman Family Teaching Awards. According to The Well, “Created in 1993 with a gift during the Bicentennial Campaign from Max Carrol Chapman Jr. ’66 on behalf of the Chapman family, these awards honor distinguished teaching of undergraduate students. The award carries a stipend of $30,000 to be used over the period of five years.” Be sure to read her short interview here.
Congratulations to Dr. Kelly Hogan for winning one of the 2022 Tanner Awards for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching! Be sure to check out her short interview featured in this article from The Well!
Make sure to check out this cool article about skunk cabbage by the Herbarium’s curatrix Carol Ann McCormick on the North Carolina Botanical Garden website!
Hínár György Polczer, our Information Security Liaison, has been featured on the UNC ITS website! Be sure to check out the short profile here.
Congratulations to David Pfennig for his upcoming article in American Scientist. The article, entitled, “Evolution and the Flexible Organism,” asks, “Do environmentally induced changes to individuals affect natural selection, and if so, how?” Check out more info here.
You can also hear David and recent UNC graduate student Nick Levis on the Big Biology Podcast. Both the article and podcast highlight David’s ideas and research on the role of phenotypic plasticity in facilitating adaptive evolution in novel environments. Congratulations, David!