 Katy Evans (Espindola Lab) has been awarded the esteemed Ann G. Wylie Dissertation Fellowship by the University of Maryland’s Graduate School! Awarded to students in the final stages of their doctorate (wow, Katy, getting close!), the Wylie Fellowship provides one semester of support during the 2024-2025 academic year.
Katy's dissertation research aims to understand plant-insect interactions and their movements in rapidly changing landscapes, and consequential effects on plant reproduction. She uses experimental and observational data to investigate the effects of floral diversity on beneficial arthropods, and its repercussions on nearby plant fitness and reproductive success. Please join us in giving Katy a round of applause for this well-deserved recognition! Harriet Harris, an undergrad pursuing a minor and honors in ento w/ Dr. vanEngelsdorp, shines in Maryland Today. In addition to being an accomplished student and kick-butt roller derby player, Harriet is co-founder of BaltiSpore, a company that markets "functional" mushroom products for various health benefits.
Share Harriet's fungipreneurial spirit with your networks on facebook, X or wherever you like to excitedly holler about fun interesting things.  A picture of Dr. Medina written by: Jenan El-Hifnawi and Michael Adu-Brew
Academic institutions pride themselves on principled support for evidence-based solutions. This support, however, does not always seem to apply to institutional approaches to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) argues Dr. Raul Medina, a professor and member of the Diversity Science Research Cluster at Texas A&M. written by: Angela Saenz and Eva Perry
Islands have been the backdrop of considerable scientific research and advancement for centuries, and not just because they tend to double as a nice vacation spot. What makes many islands so special to science and scientists is their isolation from other land masses, limiting the movement of species to and from them. This isolation provides a rare open-air opportunity to study how evolutionary processes shape ecological communities: think Darwin’s finches and the Anolis lizards of the Caribbean, or, in Dr. Natalie Graham’s case, arthropods on the Hawaiian archipelago.  Photos courtesy of award winners Congratulations to the recipients of the Spring 24 Ernest N. Cory Undergraduate Scholarship! Seth Caban (Gruner Lab), Kyree Day (Hamby Lab), Nicole Rieger-Erwin (Burghardt Lab), Felicia Shechtman (Lamp Lab), Michail Siokis (St. Leger Lab) and Fiona Torok (Lamp Lab) have all made extraordinary efforts in Entomology. "Read more" for a bit more about the recipients.
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