Petra’s excellent news from NSF!

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 Swamp Sparrows, and this is a very fitting and validating outcome for her intellectual heavy lifting that went into that process!