Student News

On April 23 – 25, 2019, Marianne Davenport , Department of Integrative Biology graduate student, in Dr. Gregory Ragland’s lab, presented her research at the 69 th Western Forest Insect Work Conference in Anchorage, Alaska. The title of her poster was “Variability in Adult Reproductive Diapause of the Spruce Beetle”...

Student Spotlight: Kyle Turchick Posted on May 31, 2019 by coastalmargins1 Meet Kyle Turchick . Kyle is a Master’s student in the Buma Lab at the University of Colorado Denver. With his advisor, CRMRN steering committee member Brian Buma , he is studying disturbance ecology on Baranof Island in Southeast...

Congratulations to our Outstanding Student and Smilodon Awardees The Department would like to congratulate the following awardees of the 2019 Spring Outstanding Student and Smilodon Awards: Smilodon Outstanding Underclassman Anthony Rubalcaba Smilodon Outstanding Upperclassman Joseph Soukup 2019 Spring Outstanding TA Gabrielle Rietz 2019 Spring Outstanding Undergraduate Research Hannah Abroe 2019...

Maria Nikulkova , Integrative Biology MS student in Dr. Chris Miller's lab, was recently awarded a competitive Research Capstone Fellowship from the American Society for Microbiology. This award provides up to $2000 in travel support to attend the selective ASM Microbe Academy for Professional Development, and to present the results...

Congratulations to Dr. Le on his successful completion of his Thesis Defense! "Facilitating inclusion and access of undergraduate students in large-enrollment science classrooms"

The department congratulates Dr. Munira Lantz on the successful completion of her PhD thesis defense, “Impacts of environmental change on freshwater nitrite oxidation”