Three EEB Graduate Students Received Recognition for Their Efforts
Recently three EEB graduate students received recognition for their efforts.
Two received financial support. Jean-Phillipe Lessard, a second-year graduate student, received a three-year Postgraduate Scholarship from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (Canada's equivalent of the US NSF). Greg Crutsinger, a fourth-year graduate student, received a Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant from NSF for his project titled "The Community And Ecosystem Consequences Of Plant Genotypic Diversity." Both awardees are students of Nathan Sanders.
In addition, Xuehua Cui received an outstanding student presentation award for her talk at the ASLO-AGU Ocean Sciences Meeting in Orlando. They were more than 4000 talks presented at the meeting and only 15 student presentations received awards. The title of her talk was "Effects of prey and environmental variation on spatial distribution and temporal variability of groundfish in the northern Bering Sea." Cui is a student of Jackie Grebmeier.