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Windel Wins Multiple Awards: 11/05 Nathan Windel, a recent graduate from the Biology Department’s Master of Science program, was awarded the Missouri State Outstanding Graduate Thesis award in a university-wide competition. Nathan’s thesis examined metabolic and behavioral responses to predation-related stress in a terrestrial salamander. He also was awarded the Jaeger Award for Graduate Research by the Herpetologists’ League, an international scientific research society. Nathan’s thesis research was under the direction of Dr. Alicia Mathis. |
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GIS Article Published: 11/05 Senior Biology major Brandi Parsley wrote an article that was just published in “The Berry Basket”, a newsletter put out by the Mountain Grove campus. The article is about GIS and her summer internship. The newsletter in PDF format can be found here. |
Outstanding teacher: 9/05 Kim Fields, former undergraduate (1997) and graduate student (2004), was chosen for the Missouri Outstanding Biology Teacher Award by the National Association of Biology Teachers (NABT). She will receive the award at the NABT annual conference in October in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Making history: 9/05 Dr. Janice Greene was named one of 19 Historical Figures of the Texas Chapter of the Wildlife Society at its 40th Annual Meeting. From the meeting program: “Janice Greene was the guiding force in spearheading the achievement of the Wildlife Conservation Camps when they began in 1993, and set the standard for many years thereafter.”
Award winners
2/05 at the recent Missouri Natural Resources Conference, grad
student Brianna Kaiser won the Best Student Presentation Award
from the American Fisheries Society, for her talk titled "The effects of
glochidiosis on fish respiration". Grad student Miranda Milam won
the Best Student Poster Award from the Missouri Society for Conservation
Biology, for her presentation titled "Thermoregulation and arousal
patterns of hibernating Eastern red bats." Congratulations!
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Bio grads in Peace Corps 1/05 Recent Biology graduates Angela Delp (MS 2002) and Alexis Denny (BS 2004) are serving as a Peace Corps volunteers in Africa. Alexis (at left) is teaching biology and physical science to high school students in Mhuju, South Africa. She spent Christmas with friends at Mkata Bay on Lake Malawi. Angela is teaching English and Biology in Garoua, Cameroon and recently enlisted for a second 2-year term with the Peace Corps. |
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