2005-2006
Graduate student
Shaw Gargis has received a Fulbright Scholarship and will spend a year studying
and doing research at The University of Otago in New Zealand.
(9/06)
Congratulations to the following faculty members for awards and special recognition:
Janis O'Donnell - Leadership
Board Oustanding Commitment to Teaching, and College of Arts and Sciences Teaching
Fellow.
Ron Hood - Fellow, Academy
of Toxicological Sciences.
Martha Powell - Fellow,
American Mycological Society.
Katrina Ramonell and
Jane Rasco - National Academy Teaching Fellows for 2006.
(8/06)
The first digital database
featuring Alabamian seaweeds has been posted at the PhycoLab website:
www.bama.ua.edu/~jlopez.
This database assists other scientists and the public in identification, and
in developing an appreciation of a diverse marine algal flora. Work of the Phycolab
has also been recently recognized by the
National
Geographic.
(8/06)
The Howard Hughes Medical
Institute
features
an article
about student-published science journals, including the UA journal
JOSHUA.
(8/06)
Graduate student Mike
Sandel received the Outstanding Student Presentation Award from the American
Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists Southeast Division for his talk,
"Intraspecific Phylogeography of Elassomatidae: A Test of the Interglacial
Refugia Hypothesis."
(7/06)
Faculty member Phil
Harris has been elected to the Board of Governors of the American Society of
Ichthyologists and Herpetologists.
(7/06)
Sophomore Biology major
Renee Rivas has been awarded the
Benjamin Cummings
Biology Prize
for 2006.
(7/06)
Former graduate student
Songsong Cao (Ph.D. 2006) and Biological Sciences faculty members Guy and Kim
Caldwell were part of a multi-investigator team that
published
a recent paper in the journal Science;
the paper concerned a protein that may prevent the neural death that results
in Parkinson's Disease.
(6/06)
Professor William Schroeder
was part of a group of scientists that was
awarded the
Cooperative Conservation Award
by the U.S. Department of Interior; the group investigated the biological consequences
of deepsea shipwrecks.
(6/06)
Biology, Microbiology
and Marine Science undergraduate majors, and Biology graduate students were
recognized for outstanding achievements during the spring
2006 Honors Day.
(5/06)
Recent Biology graduate
Cody Locke (B.S. 2006) has been
recognized by
the Epilepsy Therapy Development Project
for his epilepsy genetics database
CarpeDB.
(5/06)
The laboratory of Drs.
Guy and Kim Caldwell has been selected to participate in a large-scale
Parkinsons
Disease drug screening project.
(5/06)
Sophomore Biology major
Renee Rivas
has been awarded a
Goldwater Scholarship,
the most prestigious national scholarship in the sciences, mathematics and engineering.
Renee conducts undergraduate research in the labs of Drs. Kim and Guy Caldwell.
(3/06)
Senior Biology major
Cody Locke has been named
USA Today All-USA
College Academic First Team member.
Cody conducts undergraduate research in the labs of Drs. Guy and Kim Caldwell.
(2/06)
Dr. Stephen Secor, Assistant
Professor of Biological Sciences, and researchers at Arizona State University
are
studying
the digestive systems of Gila monsters
to gain insights into diabetes.
(1/06)
Sophomore Biology majors
Meaghan Till (Greenville) and Crystal Ellis (Columbia SC) have been awarded
Isabella
Hummel Graham Scholarships
by the University Women's Club.
(1/06)
Dr. Julia Cherry, a
recent Ph.D. graduate, is among an international group of recent Ph.D. recipients
invited to participate in the DISCCRS II Symposium (Pacific Grove, CA, March
26-April 2, 2006). DISCCRS (Dissertations Initiative for the Advancement of
Climate Change Research), funded by NSF and NASA, helps build successful interdisciplinary
careers dedicated to understanding climate and mitigating impacts. Julia is
employed as an ecologist with the USGS National Wetlands Research Center in
Louisiana.
(1/06)
Geneticist Dr. Richard
M. Myers was the featured speaker at UA's winter commencement ceremonies. A
Tuscaloosa native and one-time UA Biology major, Myers is professor and chair
of the department of genetics at Stanford University School of Medicine and
director of the Stanford Human Genome Center.
(1/06)
Prof. Arthur Benke
has published "Rivers of North America."
(5/05)
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