Honors/Awards

Recent Grad Moves To Berkeley

Sheila Patek, who received her PhD in Biology from Duke in 2001, is starting a new position in the fall of 2004 at the University of California, Berkeley. She is an assistant professor in the Department of Integrative Biology. During Sheila's doctoral research - in Prof. Steve Nowicki's lab - she discovered that when a spiny lobster moves its antennae in a certain way it makes sounds equivalent to a violin, which was the first time such a mechanism has been found in nature (more). Sheila doesn't have far to move since she's been a Fellow in the Miller Institute on the Berkeley campus for the past four years. Contact Sheila

Student Receives Scholarship to Study Hummingbirds in Andes

Sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, the Fulbright U.S. Student Program offers opportunities for recent graduates, postgraduate candidates, and developing professionals and artists to conduct career-launching study and research abroad. Jessica Hardesty is the latest graduate student in the Biology Department to receive a Fulbright Scholarship to support her research. During 2004 Jessica will be researching hummingbird community dynamics and elevational migrations in the Eastern Andes of Ecuador. Contact . Photo Copyright Peter Jones 2001

Recent Grad Awarded NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship

Kiona Ogle, who recently completed her disseration ("Physiological and Growth Responses of Larrea tridentata (Creosotebush) to Annual, Seasonal, and Pulse Precipitation"; Advisor: Prof. James Reynolds) - was awarded a prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Interdisciplinary Informatics. Kiona is working in the Levin-Pacala lab at Princeton University on a project entitled: "Bayesian melding of ecological models and data: Linking plant physiology and population processes. " Contact Kiona .