Holiday card designed by Gary Samuels, USDA, ARS. The "tree" is a non-genetically modified species of Trichoderma, a mycoparasitic fungus.
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Holiday card designed by Gary Samuels, USDA, ARS. The "tree" is a non-genetically modified species of Trichoderma, a mycoparasitic fungus. |
| Graduate Studies News |
George C. Marshall |
Ebony Spikes, Biochemistry major, is the first LSU student every to be awarded a prestigious Marshall Scholarship. The British Marshall Scholarship was established by an Act of Parliament in 1953 to commemorate the ideals of the European Recovery Programme (the Marshall Plan) and express appreciation of the aid given by the US under the Marshall Plan. [1953 was also the year that George C. Marshall was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.] The overall objective is to enable "intellectually distinguished young Americans to study in the United Kingdom and thereby to gain an understanding and appreciation of the British way of life." Forty fellowships are awarded each year for two years of study in any discipline leading to the award of a British University degree. Citizens of the U.S.A. under 26 years of age who obtain an undergraduate degree from accredited college or university with a GPA of at least 3.7are eligible to apply for the prestigious award. Spikes' generous award will cover books, living and travel allowances, and thesis preparation expenses for the two year period when she will study at one of the Oxford University colleges she will choose. |
Ellinor Behre
, a Radcliff PhD, was an active faculty members in the early Zoology
Department. In addition to regular courses on the Baton Rouge
campus, she also took groups of students to the old Grand Isle lab that
LSU ran. One of these students was Robert May, father of biology
department member Meredith Blackwell, who was also her MS student.
Another current department member, Earl Weidner, has an interest in the
history of the department, and recently found a web
site that features Behre's sister Edwine, but also mentions Ellinor
Behre and her German family (descended from the composer Schumann
on the maternal side) that had immigrated to Atlanta. Weidner
contacted the author of a Edwine Behre project, Andrew Christiansen, who
sent information on the family that recalled Ellinor Behre on her 90th
birthday.
From L.S.U. Alumni News Sept. 1976, Vol. 52 No. 4 |
| Try a day trip over the holidays |
Josie Babin won the Museum of Natural Sciences "Outstanding Graduate Student" award for 2001. The annual award winner is determined by the museum curators.
Alison Styring
was awarded a Collection Study Grant from the American
Museum of Natural History ($500). She will travel to the museum in
New York City to take morphometric measurements on their collection of
Southeast Asian woodpeckers.
| Six graduate
and one undergraduate students received national Sigma Xi grant-in-aid
of research recipients for the fall,
2001, deadline, perhaps an all-time record. Kurt Gust 3rd year Ph.D. Advisor: John Fleeger Title: Joint toxicity of sediment amended cadmium and phenanthrene in a population of freshwater oligochaetes ($700) Katherine Grams Undergraduate Student Advisor: Jim McGuire Title: The use of anonymous nuclear sequences to analyze mitochondrial Versus nuclear sequence data in the rapidly evolving Order Squamata ($700) Adam Leache 2nd year Ph.D. Advisor: Jim McGuire Chromosome rearrangements and the origin of cryptic species ($800) Sarahfaye Mahon 1st year Ph.D Advisor: Kevin Carman Title: Does Spartina alterniflora influence trophic transfer of metals? ($500) Daniel Ortiz-Barrientos 2nd year Ph.D Advisor: Mohamed Noor Local adaptation and the signature of speciation ($1000) Kazuya Naoki 5th year Ph.D. Advisor: James Remsen Title: Community evolution in Neotropical tanagers of the genus Tangara ($992) Julie Reynolds 2nd year Ph.D. Advisor: Steven Hand Title: Differential gene expression in diapausing and non-diapausing embryos of the ground cricket, Allonemobius socius Grant amount: $1000 |
John Caprio
will leave for the SUMMER beaches of Chile on January 4th to presumably
participate for two weeks as in instructor in the course "Experimental
Approaches in Neuroethology" which will be held at the
Universities of Chile (Santiago)
and Valparaíso. The course is intended to inspire and encourage
Latin American students to engage in behavioral and neural studies of native
species. Participating in the course will be 13 faculty (from South
America, Cuba, Spain, Slovenia and the U.S.) and 20 students (from Chile,
Argentina, Brazil, Cuba, Peru and Uruguay).
James Cronin and Kyle Haynes presented papers at the annual meeting of the Entomological Society of America in San Diego in December.
Meredith Blackwell presented
the plenary lecture, "What's in a mushroom?," at the annual general meeting
of the British Mycological
Society at Burlington House, London. She also visited Jean and
Arthur Bell, old friends of many department members. Bell was Director,
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, where some of us visited them. In November
Blackwell also attended an NSF-sponsored workshop at the American Museum
of Natural History in New York City, and presented a seminar on insect-associated
fungi at the University of Toronto.
Winter visitors --courtesy of David Longstreth |