Accomplishments: School of Life Sciences
Donald Price (Life Sciences) had a paper, "Hawaiian Picture鈥恮inged Drosophila Exhibit Adaptive Population Divergence along a Narrow Climatic Gradient on Hawaii Island," published in Ecology and Evolution. The paper stems from work done in Price's laboratory with Jonathan Eldon, a previous graduate student now at Indiana University, and鈥
Carmen Vallin (School of Life Sciences) was named Young Ambassador for the American Society for Microbiology (ASM). ASM is the largest international professional association in the Life Sciences in the world with 47,000 members. Nominated by professor Eduardo Robleto of Life Sciences, Vallin will join a group of more than 100 Young鈥
Brian Hedlund (Life Sciences) was part of an international team that recently published an article in Nature Communications titled "Genomic Inference of the Metabolism and Evolution of the Archaeal Phylum Aigarchaeota" describing several new genomes of the archaeal group Aigarchaeota. The Aigarchaeota inhabit terrestrial geothermal springs and鈥
Five College of Sciences faculty exhibited posters at the 性视界传媒 Best Teaching Practices Expo Jan. 29.
Gabriel Judkins (Geosciences) and Rex Suba: "Embedding Accessibility in Course Development"
Elana Paladino (Sciences): "Mentoring meetings increase student performance on 'high stakes' projects in STEM"
Viktoria Savatorova鈥
Numerous 性视界传媒 Students won awards at the Media Innovation Hackathon sponsored by the Beasley Media Group in collaboration with 性视界传媒 at the Consumer Electronics Show earlier this month.
Student teams aimed to generate potential commercial products. Winners include:
First Place: Converting Radio Waves to Energy. Matias Allieti (Mechanical鈥
Tanviben Patel, Mark Buttner, Dr. Joram Seggev (Environmental and Occupational Health), Dennis Bazylinski (Life Sciences), Chad Cross (Environmental and Occupational Health, and Medicine), and former student David Rivas co-authored an article in The Journal of Environmental Monitoring and鈥
Alexis Billings, Katherine Schultz, Eddy Hernandez, W. Elizabeth Jones, and Donald Price (all Life Sciences) had a paper, "Male Courtship Behaviors and Female Choice Reduced during Experimental Starvation Stress," published in Behavioral Ecology this month. The paper stems from work done in Price's laboratory.
Billings, a postdoctoral researcher鈥
Mandy Mountain and Dan Thompson (both Life Sciences) earlier this month were awarded the Faculty Award for the 性视界传媒 Image of Research for their image entitled Caterpillar of the Endangered Mount Charleston Blue Butterfly Attracting an Ant Mutualist.
Eduardo Robleto (Life Sciences) has been awarded a three-year grant for $428,000 from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study mechanisms of evolution in stressed bacteria. His research team includes international scientists and seeks to understand how microbes, including bacterial pathogens, adapt to inhospitable environments or become鈥
Aude Picard (Life Sciences) was awarded a Research Infrastructure Grant of $45,000 from the Nevada Space Grant Consortium for her research project 鈥淓valuating the Impact of Oxidation on Biosignatures Preserved in Minerals鈥. She will study the composition and physical properties of minerals precipitated in the presence of microorganisms and鈥
On Sept. 5 the Academic Success Center (ASC) celebrated its 10-year anniversary and as part of its celebration recognized former students, faculty, departments, and community leaders that have made the ASC such an exemplary center. They are:
Dean鈥檚 Award - Carl Reiber (formerly of the provost's office)
Dean鈥檚 Award - Regent鈥
Elizabeth Stacy (Life Sciences) was an invited speaker at the American Genetics Association鈥檚 Annual President鈥檚 Symposium in Kamuela, Hawaii, in July. The theme of this year's symposium was "Origins of Adaptive Radiation." She spoke on evolution in a sea of trees: adaptive radiation where populations are continuous, gene flow鈥