August 2012
Happenings in ESSM Graduate Programs
New students arriving in August
Ten new graduate students will join the department in fall semester 2012. Please welcome them all to campus! (Advisors are listed in parentheses.)
Doctoral student:
- Kyle Clifton (Dr. Kreuter)
Master’s students:
- Michele Clark (Dr. Kreuter)
- Jacquelin Ebeling (Dr. Hatch)
- Nicole Ortiz (Dr. Rogers)
- Elizabeth Wilson (Drs. Vogel and West)
- Yang Zhang (Drs. West and Vogel)
Master of Natural Resources Development, distance, students:
- Robert Crowe (Dr. Wilcox)
- Leslie Dietz (Dr. Wilcox)
- Eve Ganze (Dr. Rogers)
- Rob Moss (Dr. Conner)
Graduate student awards
Please congratulate our graduate students on some recent awards:
- Matt Berg—received the Tom Slick Graduate Research Fellowship for the 2012-2013 academic year
- Wasantha Kulawardhana—received the Schlumberger Foundation 2012-2013 Faculty for the Future Fellowship
- Gaby Sosa—received the U.S. Forest Service Chief’s Scholar fellowship
- David Toledo—received the Judges’ Choice Award for his entry in the nation-wide National Science Foundation-IGERT (Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship) video and poster competition
- Elizabeth Wilson - was awarded a prestigiousMerit Fellowshipfrom the Office of Graduate Studies, as well as an Excellence Fellowship from the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.
- Chris Garza – second place in Student Research Week graduate poster and third place in Ecological Integration Symposium graduate poster