Amplify the Signal outreach activities
December 9, 2012: IB496: Amplify the Signal runs outreach activities at special Biodiversity Day 1-5pm at the Orpheum!
Heath Lab News
Collaborative NSF grant on intermontane refugia
December 2012: Collaborative NSF grant on intermontane refugia in the pacific NW, led by Dan Gavin with Solomon Dobrowski and Feng-Sheng Hu, is recommended for funding!
IB 405 starts spring 2013!
November 29, 2012: Start revving your Ecological Genetics engines: IB 405 starts spring 2013!
Science Politely
November 29, 2012: Science Politely, SIB graduate students’ contributions to Champaign-Urbana’s local online magazine Smile Politely, continues to attract top readership. Michelle Duennes’s article is the #1 article last week. Woot!
Featured on Smile Politely Radio
November 2, 2012: Katy and students (Lisa Powers, Dan Scholes, and Abby Berkey) from outreach course Amplify the Signal are featured on Smile Politely Radio (5:30pm Fridays on WEFT Community Radio, and by podcast)!
Online articles from graduate students
October 26, 2012: Online articles from graduate students in our course, “Amplify the Signal”, were introduced today and start going up next week! More updates to come!
Amanda Gorton’s manuscript
September 2012:
Amanda Gorton’s manuscript on QTL mapping of symbiosis traits has been accepted to G3!
Go Amanda!
Graduate Course: Amplify the Signal
August 2012: Katy and Elizabeth’s graduate course on science communication, “Amplify the Signal”, gets a running start with 21 enthusiastic and impressively-experienced graduate students! We are writing online articles, doing radio spots, and working with the Orpheum on outreach.
New MS student Christie Klinger
August 2012: New MS student Christie Klinger arrives in Champaign-Urbana. She will study rhizobium adaptation to nitrogen fertilization!
Collaborative grant funded by NSF
August 2012: Collaborative grant with Astrid Ferrer and Jim Dalling is funded by NSF Dimensions of Biodiversity. We will be dodging the crocodiles in Coiba. Not too shabby!