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William and Barbara receive two (yes two) grants:-Collaborative Research (Arabidopsis 2010): Ecological Genomics of Adaptation to the Environment (2010-2014).  $3,154,225 from the National Science Foundation. PI with W. Adams for Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ-Boulder

More good news from the Guralnick Lab! Rob has just gotten the formal notification of a $1.8 Million award that partners Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ, the University of Florida, the University of Hawaii, UC Berkeley and the Smithsonian. A fine set of collaborators!The title

Russ Monson has just received good news from the Terrestrial Carbon Processes program at the Department of Energy (DOE). They are funding his recent proposal, entitled “Carbon cycling dynamics in response to pine beetle infection and climate

Joey Hubbard and others (including Becca Safran) have a new paper in Trends in Genetics and they captured the cover. Joey chose the photos and made the collage. (The zebrafish is from the Stock lab)

This academic year Center For the American West hosted the 11th annual writing competition to award Thompson Awards for Western American  Writing. Leigh Cooper's submission entitled "Branding Day" won in the "Creative Nonfiction/Memoir"

After examining more than a million data points, Philip Taylor and Alan Townsend have discovered a global relationship between nitrates and organic carbon that is mediated by microbes. Their article is in the April 22 issue of Nature.Here is a link

Patrik Nosil and Tim Farkas are currently in the field in California, studying speciation in their model system of Timema walking-sticks. Patrik reports that the work is going very well, but he also wanted to share a spate good news.During his year

John Mischler, in the Townsend lab, has been awarded an EPA STAR grant. Here is the title and abstract from his proposal:Catching the Itch: A Study of Cercarial Dermatitis in Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵTrends in disease emergence and transmission are in flux

Taryn Morris, a first year PhD student in the Barger Lab was recently awarded a Schlumberger Foundation Faculty for the Future Fellowship. This fellowship provides up to $50,000 a year over three years, which will be used to further support her

Fantastic news. EBIO has received a 4th NSF Graduate Fellowship!Joseph R. Mihaljevic, currently at Washington University, will be joining our graduate program and working in Piet Johnson’s lab. The title of his project is Effects of Metacommunity