Faculty & Staff Awards

Faculty Distinguished Teaching Award – Dr. Priyanga Amarasekare
Faculty-Staff Partnership Award – Dr. Van Savage
Chair’s Award – Vivian Kim, Instructional Lab Coordinator

2020 EEB Research Symposium Awards

Undergraduate Winners (4)

Third Prize – Dhiray Ramireddy. “The function of crocodile hatchling (Crocodylus acutus) distress calls”

Second Prize – Jessica J. Patzlaff, Jeana Drake, Kevin McKeegan, and David Jacobs. “Using daily growth band counts and micro-geochemical signatures in fish otoliths to understand the dynamics of fish life histories in coastal California lagoons”

First Prize – Anna Weir, Himadree Radadia, Julie S. Miller, and Noa Pinter-Wollman. “Unique intraspecific aggression between members of the California Argentine ant (Linepithema humile) supercolony”

Undergraduate Marine Biology Award – McKenzie Koch, Nick Schooler, Zach Gold, Jenifer Dugan, Beverly Shih, Nikita Sridhar, Lauren Man, and Paul Barber. “Biomonitoring of sandy beach ecosystems using environmental DNA”

Graduate Winners (4)

Third Prize – Paige Zhang (Jacobs lab) “DNA methylation is/was prevalent in Cnidaria”

Second Prize – Tanner Dulay (Amarasekare lab). “Mixed messages: Contradictory signals subject hybrid salamanders to increased predation”

First Prize – Emily Ryznar (Fong lab) “Rapid growth, competitive release via disturbance, and low herbivory pressure facilitate the invasion of a brown marine alga into forests of giant kelp”

Graduate Marine Biology Award: Kelsi Rutledge (Buth and Gordon labs) “Sniffing out batoid nasal morphology: a model for classification with functional implications”

Graduate Awards

Scherbaum Research Award – Annabel Beichman (Lohmueller & Wayne labs)
Lasiewski Research Award – Kelsi Rutledge (Buth & Gordon labs)
A.M. Schechtman Award for Teaching (2) – Shawn McEachin (Grether lab) & Emily Ryznar (Fong lab)

Undergraduate Awards

Undergraduate Research Award – Jessica Patzlaff (Jacobs lab)
Whitcome Summer Research Fellowship (2) – Andrew Ardelan (Amarasekare lab) & Anne Finneran (Grether lab)

Extramural Fellowship and Training Grant Graduate Awardees:

· Dissertation Year Fellowship (1 year award) – Leila Fletcher (Sack lab) & Guilherme Casas Goncalves (Amarasekare lab)

· NIH sponsored Systems & Integrative Biology Training Grant (1-2 year award) – Madeline Cowen (Grether lab) & Celine Snedden (Lloyd-Smith lab)

· NSF GRFP (3 year award) – Aiden Howenstine (Sears Lab) & Nicholas Russo (awardee, Smith Lab)

Ashlyn Ford (honorable mention, Fong Lab)
Kenji Hayashi (honorable mention, Kraft Lab)
Marissa Ochoa (honorable mention, Sork and Sack Labs)
Xotchitl Ortiz Ross (honorable mention, incoming PhD student to Blumstein Lab)

· DoD sponsored National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship Program (3 year award) – Kelsi Rutledge (Buth and Gordon labs)