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EEB graduate students shine

Wednesday, November 22, 2017

The Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior Graduate Program at the IU Department of Biology is happy to announce the following awards received by our EEB graduate students. Congratulations to each of them!

Award recipients are:

Natalie Christian (Clay Lab) won a 2017 Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute/Simons Foundation Seed Grant (which is like a DDIG).

Matt Craig (Phillips Lab) won best student talk at the International Symposium on Soil Organic Matter in 2017 and the Best Student Presentation award from the Biogeosciences Section of the Ecological Society of America in 2016. He also received an NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant (2017) as well as a Smithsonian ForestGEO grant (like a DDIG).

Elizabeth George (Rosvall Lab) was awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.

Mandy Gibson collecting snails at Lake Alexandrina in New Zealand. — Amanda Gibson at Lake Alexandrina in New Zealand in 2015 collecting snails for an experiment. Courtesy photo

Amanda Gibson (formerly Lively Lab) won: (1) the 2016 T.H. Huxley Award from the Society of the Study of Evolution (SSE) for outreach and education achievement, (2) a 2016 Hamilton Award Honorable Mention for Outstanding Student Presentation from SSE, and (3) John Maynard Smith Prize from the European Society of Evolutionary Biology in 2017 for being an outstanding young evolutionary biologist.

Steve Kannenberg (Phillips Lab) won the Ehleringer Prize for best student paper in Plant Ecology published in Oecologia in 2016.

Steve Kannenberg extracting soil core samples in the woods. — Steve Kannenberg is taking a soil core as part of research related to his *Oecologia* paper. Courtesy photo

Adrienne Keller (Phillips Lab) won a CTFS-Forest GEO Research Grant (which is like a DDIG).

Daniel Schwab (Moczek Lab) won an NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant in 2017.

Will Shoemaker (Lennon Lab) received a NASA Astrobiology Early Career Collaboration Award.

Alex Strauss sampling lake. — Alex Strauss sampling lakes in southwestern Indiana as part of his research published in 2016 *Ecology Monographs*. Courtesy photo

Alex Strauss (formerly Hall Lab) won the 2017 Tom Frost Award for best student paper from the Aquatic Section of the Ecological Society of America for a 2016 paper in Ecological Monographs.

Kristyn Sylvia (Demas Lab) won an Emerging Scholars Award from the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISSOTL).

Briana Whitaker (Clay Lab) in 2017 won (1) an NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant, (2) Outstanding Student Award for best paper published (a 2017 study in Ecology Letters) by the Student Section of the ESA, (3) the Hanna Kolodziejski Award for mentorship from the IU Bloomington Center for the Integrative Study of Animal Behavior, and (4) an NSF Graduate Research Internship Program Award.

Briana Whitaker at IURTP Bayles Road property. — Briana Whitaker conducting field research for the *Ecology Letters* paper at the IU Research and Teaching Preserve's Bayles Road site (IUB campus) in 2015. Courtesy photo

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