Congratulations to Biology graduate student Elizabeth Moore, who has received both a Summer Research Fellowship AND a Dissertation Completion Fellowship from the Graduate School!
Elizabeth originally hails from Hillsboro, Kentucky. She graduated in the class of 2014 from Mount Holyoke College with a BA in Biology. During her Masters at the University of Cambridge, she studied the effects of temperature on the seasonal polyphenism of African butterflies. She started her PhD at the University of North Carolina in the fall of 2015. For her PhD project, she is investigating the effects of heat stress on host-parasitoid interactions, using the model system of Manduca sexta and Cotesia congregata.