Congratulations to grad student Nick Mason for being awarded a competitive NSF postdoctoral fellowship! This award will support Nick and his research starting in January 2018 as he transitions to working at UC Berkeley with ornithologist Raurie Bowie and others. The only down-side is that we will sorely miss Nick…
Postdoc Jen Walsh has been awarded a $12K seed grant in support of her work on the genomics of parallel adaptation in salt-marsh-dwelling sparrows. We are particularly grateful to the Cornell Center for Vertebrate Genomics for this specific award and more generally for creating an interactive network of scholars from…
Big congratulations to Jake Berv for the news that his NSF doctoral dissertation improvement grant has been recommended for funding! Jake’s proposal is titled Surviving the K/Pg Mass Extinction: the genome as a life history character in birds and it includes innovative empirical and modeling approaches applied to the avian…
Graduate student Natalie Hoffmeister is one of the leaders of a collaborative team from across Cornell that just received a substantial grant for a project entitled “Empowering Women in STEM to Lead through Inclusive Practice and Community Building.” After completing Cornell’s first Intergroup Dialogue course for graduate students, Natalie wanted…
Grants to Grads: congratulations to graduate student Natalie Hoffmeister for a substantial travel award from the Einaudi Center for International Studies for her forthcoming pilot study of local adaptation in Argentinian seabirds, and similar congratulations to graduate student Stepfanie Aguillon for a substantial Peacock Award from the Garden Society of…
NSF smiles upon us. In this era of 4% funding rates, we are particularly appreciative of having been awarded a significant grant from the National Science Foundation for a new study entitled “Quantifying genomic porosity in non-model radiations.” In addition to Irby and Leo Campagna (Leo was a prime mover…
Nick Mason lands NSF DDIG grant! Congratulations to Nick for being awarded $20K of research funding from the National Science Foundation in support of his dissertation project. Nick’s new grant is titled Integrative species delimitation, cryptic coloration, and climatic niche breadth in a widespread, recent radiation of songbirds.
Congratulations to grad student Jake Berv for being awarded a Graduate Student Research Award from the Society of Systematic Biologists in support of Jake’s studies of the phylogeographic history of various Neotropical birds.
Congrats to first-year grad student Stepfanie Aguillon for being awarded a research grant from the Wilson Ornithological Society in support of her exploration of the Northern Flicker hybrid zone using genomic tools.
Congratulations to Kate on finishing her last semester at Cornell with a string of successes, including an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship for her forthcoming PhD studies and for being the senior selected for the CALS Academic Excellence Award in the Natural Resources major!
Congratulations to Nick Mason for winning an American Society of Naturalists Student Research Fellowship!
Congratulations to grads Stepfanie Aguillon, Jake Berv, and Nick Mason, all of whom were awarded research grants from the CALS Mellon awards program in support of their different projects.
Congratulations to grads Stepfanie Aguillon and Jake Berv, who were both awarded significant travel grant to participate in NSF-supported workshops hosted by the Society of Systematic Biologists at this summer’s conference in Guaruja, Brazil.
Graduate student Petra Deane just got the phone call from a program officer at the National Science Foundation: her Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant was ranked very highly and has been awarded full funding! Petra worked extremely hard on crafting a compelling proposal on genomic studies of adaptation and differentiation in…