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Dr. Donald Alstad was awarded a $10,000 grant from the TEL
Small Grant Program for rebuilding and developing the Populus teaching
software in Java.
Congratulations to Cynthia Brown on her award of $89,447 from
the USDA for "Effects of Species and Functional Diversity on Invasions
in Grasslands."
Karen Oberhauser, Michelle Prysby and Jolene Loshine were featured
in the article "What's Next for Biotech Crops?" in the December 19 New
York Times.
Congratulations to Georgiana May for her award of $80,013 from the
University of California, Berkeley, for "Development of Tools for Potato
Functional Genomics."
Karen Oberhauser was recently awarded $25,648 for "Importance
of Corn Fields to Monarch Production: A Large Scale Cooperative Monitoring
Effort".
Graduate student, Melody Ng, has been awarded $6,000 from the
Land Institute for "Pathogens, Insect Pests and their Interactions in Natural
and Cultivated Wild Rice Stands."
Dr. Robert Zink was featured in the Los Angeles Times,
the North Coast Journal and the Sept. 26 Orange County Register
for his study regarding gnatcatchers in Southern California. He was also
interviewed on the Oct. 6 broadcast of the National Public Radio show "Living
on Earth".
Dr. David Tilman has been identified and the most-cited environmental
author of the past decade by Essential Science Indicators. According to
the analysis, 15 of his papers have been cited a total of 1,222 times.
Holly Ewing, graduate student of the Davis lab was recently awarded
the Deevey award from the Ecological Society of America.
Congratulations go out to graduate student David Lytle of the
Davis lab for winning the Braun award from the Ecological Society of America.
James Underhill, Professor
Emeritus of Zoology, died of lung cancer on August 4, at his home in St. Paul. He was 77.
Congratulations to Claudia Neuhauser, Don Alstad, Peter Graham
(Soil, Water & Climate), Georgiana May, Ruth Shaw, Dave Andow
(Entomology), James Groth (Plant Pathology), George Heimpel
(Entomology), Nick Jordan (Agronomy & Plant Genetics), and Trice
Morrow for their five-year award of $2,965,344 from the National Science
Foundation, for "Biocomplexity - Evolution and Ecology of Perturbed Interactions:
Modeling Disequilibria in Time and Space," beginning 9-1-2000.
Congratulations to Diane Larson for her award of $44,155 from
the USDI - National Park Service for "Ecology Effects of Leafy Spurge Infestation
and Control in Theodore Roosevelt National Park".
Dr.
Elmer C. Birney, passed away on June 11, 2000 from a heart attack
suffered while outside caring for his cattle. Dr. Birney was a Professor
in the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, the Curator of Mammals
at the Bell Museum of Natural History, and the Director of Graduate Studies
of the program in Ecology, Evolution and Behavior.
Margaret Davis, Regents' Professor of Ecology, retired in May.
The impact she has had on EEB and the University will no doubt continue
to be felt here, while her plans to keep up her research will ensure her
continuing impact on the field of paleoecology.
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