Congratulations to Lasair ní Chochlain, M.S. student in Dr. Hamby’s Lab, for being named one of this year’s Distinguished Services Award finalists by the Division of Student Affairs. Lasair is not only a talented researcher but also a fierce disability advocate. When Lasair isn’t researching the ecological interactions that structure insect communities and sustainable IPM techniques for grain and small fruit crops, they are inviting disability advocates to talk at our Entomology speaker series and facilitating affinity spaces for UMD graduate students with disabilities - a space to find support, resources, and community.
Please join us in applauding Lasair for this well-deserved recognition & thanking them for their dedication to this important work. Watch Lasair being acknowledged for their efforts at campus’s Student Leadership Award ceremony held this May. They are mentioned at about 2:00:03.
