Congrats to Becca Brunner: UC Berkeley Hellman Fellow. Congratulations to Becca as she heads off to start her PhD at Berkeley, where she has now been named a Hellman Graduate Fellow (and with baobab trees in the background, she definitely wins ‘coolest photo’ in their Hellman Fellow press release)
Congratulations to alumnae Marjorie Weber (at right) and (again to) Katie Wagner (at left)! These two past members of our greater lab group are the recipients of the two awards for exceptional early career contributions being given this week at the joint conference in Guarujá, Brazil: Marjorie is this year’s…
Katie Wagner wins the Dobzhansky Prize! Warmest of congratulations to lab group alumna Dr. Katie Wagner for being recognized at the highest level by her community of scientific colleagues. The Theodosius Dobzhansky Prize is awarded annually by the Society for the Study of Evolution “to recognize the accomplishments and future…
Bittersweet congratulations to Yula Kapetanakos, who got her PhD in our lab last year and who has been working since then just down the hall as an Associate Producer in the Lab’s multimedia unit, largely on an incredible conservation story on the Philippine Eagle. We will be very sorry to…
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!
Congratuations to Nick for garnering a substantial research grant from the Sustainable Biodiversity Fund of Cornell’s Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future to support his work on birds in the Imperial Valley of California.
Congratulations to grad student Nick Mason for winning the Cornelia Ye Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, which recognizes an outstanding TAs who has demonstrated excellence and dedication in their instructional responsibilities. This university-wide award honors the important contributions made by teaching assistants towards enhancing undergraduate and graduate education at Cornell University.…
Congratulations to postdoc Leo Campagna, who has just been selected as a Genomics Scholar by the Cornell Vertebrate Genomics program. This award recognizes Leo’s leadership and exciting research program, and provides substantial financial underwriting for Leo and his projects. Way to go, Leo!!!
This has been a very, very good day for three of our lab alumni: PhD alumnus Dan Rabosky, now an assistant professor at Michigan, has been named one of this year’s 18 Packard Fellows, a truly significant (and well deserved) honor! More information here. Undergrad alumni Mike Harvey and Glenn…
Congratulations to Stepfanie Aguillon and Nick Mason for winning student presentation awards at the end of the AOU/COS meeting! Likewise congratulations to our former undergraduates Shawn Billerman and Ben Winger for this recognition.
In what is becoming a tradition, a team of three Cornell undergrads (junior Eric Gulson, senior Teresa Pegan, and recently graduated Andy Johnson ’14) destroyed all competition to win the annual ornithological quiz bowl, soundly beating the LSU graduate student team in the final round. Congratulations to these incredibly well-rounded…
Congratulations to Dan and his co-authors for their forthcoming cover article: ” Baldassarre, D. T., White, T. A., Karubian, J. and Webster, M. S. 2014. Genomic and morphological analysis of a semi-permeable avian hybrid zone suggests asymmetrical introgression of a sexual signal. Evolution. doi: 10.1111/evo.12457.”
Warmest of congratulations to Yula on the completion of her dissertation and the awarding of her PhD!!!
Warmest of congratulations to graduate student Jake Berv for being awarded a prestigious three-year NSF graduate research fellowship!!!
Congratulations to graduate student Ben Freeman on being awarded the Lamont C. Cole Award for the outstanding paper by a Cornell EEB grad student published within the last year, for his paper: Freeman, B. and Class Freeman, A. M. 2014. Rapid upslope shifts in New Guinean birds illustrate strong distributional…
Congratulations to postdoc Leo Campagna for being awarded support from the Julia Marsden fund of the Neotropical Grassland Conservancy for his work on the conservation of Sporophila seedeaters in the grasslands of South America.
Class of ’14 student Michelle Moglia is the recipient of the first Laura M. Stenzler Award for exceptional undergraduate research, a distinction that seems particularly appropriate since Michelle was trained in molecular techniques by Laura (who retired last month).
Congratulation to Scott twice over! In quick succession, Scott has been awarded two highly prestigious postdoctoral fellowships from the Canadian government: first a two-year NSERC fellowship, which shortly thereafter he had to decline when he was awarded an even more competitive two-year Banting Fellowship. Scott thereby becomes one of only…