Student Awards - Land Resources and Environmental Sciences

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2024 Awards

Celie Meier received a MSU Graduate Excellence in Teaching Award from the Graduate School
Lilly Sencenbaugh took firstplace in the Range, Forestry and Natural Areas graduate student oral competitionat the Western Society of Weed Science meeting
Erin Teichroew took second place in the Range, Forestry and Natural Areas graduate student oral competitionat the Western Society of Weed Science meeting
Madisan Chavez presented on mentoring Native American graduate students at the NIH NIEHS Centers of Excellence Conference at NIEHS headquarters
Haley Oakland received a College of Agriculture Student Scholar Travel Award from the Koebel Foundation Fund, and a LRES Student Travel Award
Colter Mumford received a Land Grant Excellence Award, awarded to students who are highly effective in engaging with the community, by sharing and applying new knowledge that is locally relevant and mutually beneficial
Caitlin Mitchell was recognized with the American Geophysical Union Outstanding Student Presentation Award, as well as the School of Plant and Environmental Sciences Outstanding Recent Undergraduate Alumni Awardfrom Virginia Tech
Melissa Maggio received an award from the Montana Weed Control Association for her dedication and continued support of weed management in Montana using biological control organisms
Lochlin Ermatinger received honorable mention for his presentation at the Montana Wheat & Barley Committee Pitch Competition
Taylor Kennedy won first place in her 10-minute student paper competition session at the Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society of America in Phoenix, Arizona
Lilly Sencenbaugh received a College of Agriculture Student Scholar Travel Award from the Spragg Foundation Fund
Erin Teichroew received a College of Agriculture Student Scholar Travel Award from the Spragg Foundation Fund
Meryl Storb received a Scholarship Excellence Award from the Graduate School
Jackson Strand received a Land Grant Excellence Award from the Graduate School

2023 Awards

Colter Mumford received a Land Grant Excellence Award from the Graduate School
Het Desai won first place at the Weed Science Society of America 2023 Conference at Arlington, VA, for his poster titled "Seed Shattering Phenology of Grass and Broadleaf Weeds at Soybean (Glycine max) and Corn (Zea mays) harvest in SE Montana"
Jackson Strand won second place in the in the Grad Competition Plant-Insect Ecosystems Chemical Ecology 2 at Entomology 2023, with is paper titled "Using organic volatile compounds to assess the relationship between wheat stem sawfly, parasitoids, and smooth brome"
Caitlin Mitchell received a PhD Completion Award

2022 Awards

Madison Foster received a Scholarship Excellence Award from the Graduate School
Bethany MacCarter received a Teaching Excellence Award from the Graduate School
Sasha Loewen received a Graduate Student of the Year award from the International Society of Precision Agriculture
Paul Hegedus received a Graduate Student of the Year award from the International Society of Precision Agriculture
Jackson Strand was awarded a Montana Grains Foundation scholarship from the Montana Grain Growers Association
Kaleb Baber was awarded a Land Grant Excellence Award from The Graduate School
Simon Fordyce was awarded a Land Grant Excellence Award from The Graduate School
Lilly Secenbaugh was awarded the Ph.D. GTA Enhancement award from The Graduate School.
Laura Berrios-Ortiz was awarded the Ph.D. GTA Enhancement award from The Graduate School.
Jack Poole was awarded the Ph.D. GTA Enhancement award from The Graduate School.
Justin Gay received a PhD Dissertation Completion Award for Spring 2022 from The Graduate School.
Emma Kubinski received a NACTA Teaching Award of Merit for Graduate Students for her work designing a new lab activity to facilitate students learn the correct identification of agricultural weeds, noxious species, and invasive species, as well as developing new laboratory activities, as the TA of Weed Ecology and Management.
Isabella Montoya was awarded a Professional Master's Fellowship from The Graduate School.
Benjamin Morris was awarded a Professional Master's Fellowship from The Graduate School.
Danielle Neumann was awarded a Professional Master's Fellowship from The Graduate School.
Alison Beres-Nork was awarded a Student Assistant Scholarship from the College of Agriculture.

2021 Awards

Mei Ling Wong received the Graduate Sustainability Research Award through the Intermountain Sustainability Summit, Weber State
Justin Gay received a NACTA Teaching Award of Merit for Graduate Students for his work with formalizing the greenhouse experiment and poster presentations as the TA for Environmental Biogeochemistry.
Bryce Curry received a NACTA Teaching Award of Merit for Graduate Students for developing and managing the labs for ENSC 426 and 429R and indroducing the students to advanced and open source remote sensing software.
Sasha Lowen recieved one of MountainView's annual research fellowships for his work with remote sensing on organic farms.
Jordan Meyer-Moyer received MSU's 2021 Graduate School Teaching Excellence Award.
Gabriel Bromley received MSU’s 2021 Graduate School Scholarship Excellence Award.
Clare Dittemore received funding from the Montana State University Foundation Endowed Fund for MS Students in Entomology.
Gabriel Bromley received a Graduate School PhD Completion Award.
Jackson Strand received a Professional Advancement Grant from The Graduate School.
Tyler Moorewas awarded a Professional Master's Fellowship from The Graduate School.
Casey Hoins was awarded a Professional Master's Fellowship from The Graduate School.
Kristen Knopf was awarded a Professional Master's Fellowship from The Graduate School.

2020 Awards

Sam Carlson received MSU's Graduate School Teaching Excellence Award.
Sam Carlson received COA's NACTA Graduate Student Teaching Award of Merit.
Sasha Lowen was awarded a Montana Association of Geographic Information Professionals (MAGIP) scholarship for his work titled, "Data driven adaptive management of organic dryland cropping systems".
Miranda Margetts received MSU's Graduate School Teaching Excellence Award.
Colter Mumford was awarded a Ph.D. Enhancement Grant from The Graduate School.
Jason Hanlonwas awarded a Professional Master's Fellowship from The Graduate School.
Zach Rittner received the Gideon Hawley Teacher Recognition award representing Union College.
Helena Wilson was awarded a Professional Master's Fellowship from The Graduate School.

2019 Awards

Buddhi Achhami was awarded a Professional Advancement Grant from The Graduate School.
Rekha Bhandari received 1st place in the LRES Research Colloquium Oral presentation.
Rekha Bhandari was awarded funding from the MSU Foundation Endowed Fund for M.S. student in Entomology.
Rekha Bhandari was awarded a Professional Advancement Grant from The Graduate School.
Laissa Cavallini dos Santos was awarded a Professional Advancement Grant from The Graduate School.
Gabriel Bromley tied for 2nd place in the LRES Research Colloquium Oral presentation.
Carrie Harris received 1st place in the LRES Research Colloquium Poster presentation.
Carrie Harris tied for 2nd place in the LRES Research Colloquium Oral presentation.
Shealyn Malone received a travel grant from MSU's Graduate School to attend the Plant- Herbivore Interaction Gordon Research Conference in Ventura, California.
Shealyn Malone received 2nd place in the LRES Research Colloquium Poster presentation.
Jordan Meyer-Morey received a travel grant from the Department of Land Resources & Environmental Sciences for travel to the annual meeting for the Western Society of Weed Science in Denver, Colorado.
Brianna Whitehead received The Graduate School's Dean Advancement Grant for Fall 2019.
Ethan Wologo received the NACTA Graduate Student Teaching Award of Merit.

2018 Awards

Guta Abeshu received the NACTA Graduate Student Teaching Award of Merit.
Gabriel Bromley was awarded an ASP Advanced Study Institute in Argentina in collaboration with Colorado State University.
Gabriel Bromley received a graduate fellowship through the National Center for Atmospheric Research.
Laissa Cavallini dos Santos received the MSU Foundation Endowed Fund for MS students in Entomology.
Alexander Gaffke was featured during National Invasive Species Awareness Week in an interview with NPR's This Green Earth.
Miranda Margetts received a travel grant from MSU's Graduate School to conduct research at Assurity Labs in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Miranda Margetts was awarded the Montana Water Center Graduate Student Research Fellowship.
Florence Miller received the NACTA Graduate Student Teaching Award of Merit.
Mallory Morgan received the National Science Foundation's Graduate Research Fellowship.
Briana Whitehead was awarded The Montana Range Days Scholarship (http://montanarangedays.org/scholarships/).

2017 Awards

Guta Abeshu was awarded a scholarship to attend the WaterSmart Innovations Conference in Las Vegas, NV.
Subodh Adhikari recieved the Judges' Choice Award for his 3-minute Research Competition presentation on "How do Conventional and Organic Farming Affect Bee-Flower Networks in the Northern Great Plains?".
Rekha Bhandari received first place in the Graduate ten-minute paper competition for the Integrated Pest Management-Crops 3 Session at the Entomological Society of America Conference in Denver, CO.
Bryce Currey received the Nielsen Graduate Research Assistantship.
Shannon Dillard presented her research on arid-lands restoration techniques in Yellowstone at the annual Society for Ecological Restoration conference in Foz do Iguacu, Brazil.
Shannon Dillard received the Graduate Student Teaching Award of Merit from the National Association of Colleges and Teachers of Agriculture (NACTA).
Badamgarav Dovchin recieved the Soros Foundation Civil Society Award for Ph.D. students.
S.Katie Fogg was awarded a travel grant from MSU's Graduate School to attend the Society of Freshwater Science meeting in Raleigh, NC.
Florence Miller recived first place in the student oral presentations at the MT American Water Resources Association.
Florence Miller received the Nielsen Graduate Research Assistantship.
Shelley Mills received a Lifetime Achievement Award for her work with MSU Extension's Pesticide Education Program in Valley County.
Dayane Reis received an award from the Montana State University Foundation Endowed Fund for MS Students in Entomology.
Dayane Reis received first place at the Research Rendezvous in the Natural & Social Sciences, Humanities & Arts category for her poster titled, "Effects of diapause and sugar feeding on the life-history strategies of two bivoltine larval parasitoids (Hymenoptera: Braconidae): Implications for biological control of the wheat stem sawfly (Hymenoptera: Cephidae".
Carlos Romero recieved the Graduate Student Teaching Award of Merit from the National Association of Colleges and Teachers of Agriculture (NACTA).
Meryl Storb recieved second place in the student oral presentations at the MT American Water Resources Association.
Madelyne Willis received a travel grant from MSU's Graduate School to present a poster titled "Detection of Organic Matter in Greenland Ice Cores by Deep-UV Fluorescence" at the 2017 AGU Fall Meeting in New Orleans, LA.

2016 Awards

Subodh Adhikari placed first at the Graduate Student Summit Rendezvous Research Poster Session for his project "Effects of Agricultural Management Systems on Natural Habitat Distribution in the Northern Great Plains: Implications for Pollinators".
Nar Ranabhat placed second at the Graduate Student Summit Rendezvous Research Poster Session for his project "Impact of Downy Brome (Bromus tectorum) and Volunteer Wheat on Risk of Winter Wheat Infection by Wheat Streak Mosaic Virus".
Dayane Reis placed second at the International Congress of Entomology Graduate Student Poster Competition in the category, Frontiers in Entomology for her project titled "Assessing the role of sugar nutrition in braconid parasitoids that specialize on the wheat stem sawfly".
Meryl Storb received the Graduate Student Teaching Award of Merit from the National Association of Colleges and Teachers of Agriculture (NACTA).
Emery Three Irons was granted a graduate fellowship with the Institute on Ecosystems to support his research on Crow Agency water quality.

2015 Awards

Subodh Adhikari was awarded a travel grant from IoE Graduate Enhancement for his project "Impacts of farm management systems on biodiversity, ecosystem services, and pollination networks in the Northern Great Plains"
Subodh Adhikari was awarded a research grant from The Graudate School, MSU for his project "Impacts of farm management systems on biodiversity, ecosystem services, and pollination networks in the Northern Great Plains"
Byron Amerson was named Ecosystems Graduate Fellow.
Byron Amerson was awarded a travel grant from The Graduate School, MSU to present his research at the Pacific Coast Salmon Recovery Conference in Vancouver, WA
Krista Ehlert was awarded a travel grant from IoE Graduate Enhancement to attend an Ecological Society Association meeting
Priyanka Kudalkar was awarded a research grant from IoE Graduate Enhancement for research supplies and analysis
Patrick Lawrence was awarded the NACTA Graduate Student Teaching Award of Merit
Nar Ranabhat was awarded a travel grant from IoE Graduate Enhancement to attend the APS annual meeting
Aaron Scott-Klingborg was awarded a research grant from The Graduate School, MSU for his project "Scaling Forest Nutrient Limitation from Trees to Forests"
Kim Taylor was awarded a travel grant from IoE Graduate Enhancement to attend an Ecological Society Association meeting
Tristy Vick-Majors was awarded a research grant from IoE Graduate Enhancement for research analysis

2014 Awards

Krista Ehlert was awarded a Western Society for Weed Science (WSWS) Outstanding Student Scholarship
Alex Gaffke was awarded a scholarship from the Montana Weed Control Association
Pamela Santibanez was awarded the Graduate Student Teaching Award of Merit from the North American College of Teachers of Agriculture
Hally Strevey was awarded a Western Society for Weed Sciences (WSWS) Outstanding Student Scholarship

2013 Awards

Liza Harris was granted a fellowship with the Montana Water Center for her project "Examining changes in the seasonal timing of evapotranspiration, the effect on soil moisture and water availability for groundwater recharge, with different crop rotation practices."
Aiden Johnson was granted a fellowship with the Montana Water Center for his project "Estimating evapotranspiration at the regional scale: an energy balance approach."
Shavonn Whiten won best oral presentation in the session on Infectious Diseases-Parasites and Vectors as part of the Third Biennial Western Regional IDeA Conference (INBRE) in Honolulu.
Fabian Nippgen has been awarded the 2013 Horton (Hydrology) Research Award from the American Geophysical Union.
Adam Sigler was recoginized for his water quality monitoring and watershed stewardship efforts with the 2013 Special Individuals Award form the Montana Wetland Council and the Montana Watershed Corrdination Council.
Hally Berg took third place in the student paper competition with her presentation "The impact of tall buttercup (Ranunculus acris) on plant diversity and productivity" at the Western Society of Weed Science conference in San Diego in March.
Christina Herron-Sweet took first place in the student paper competition with her presentation "Does spotted knapweed alter pollinator visitation in native plant communities" at the Western Society of Weed Science conference in San Diego in March.
Aiden Johnson was awarded the Graduate Student Teaching Award of Merit from the North American College of Teachers of Agriculture.
Krista Ehlert and Christina Herron-Sweet were awarded Montana Weed Control Association Scholarships.

2012 Awards

Adam Sigler won a 1st place Student Presentation Award from the American Water Resources Association (Montana Section).
Heidi Smith won a scholarship award from Woods Hole Microbial Diversity Course.
Patrick Lawrence was awarded a Graduate Fellowship with the Western Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program.
Christina Herron-Sweet was awarded a Graduate Student Scholarship from the Western Society of Weed Science.
Patrick Della Croce was awarded a Swiss National Science Foundation Fellowship for Prospective Researcher.
Aaron Rains was awarded a Graduate Teaching Award of Merit from the National Association of Colleges and Teachers of Agriculture.
James Meadow won the Student Award for the 1st Place Oral Presentation at the biannual Soil Ecology Society meetings at University of British Columbia (Onkanagan campus) held May 24-27, 2011.
Krista Ehlert was one of the four 2011 Montana Weed Control Association scholarship winners.
Lisa Lone Fight and Jason Baldes have been named as a Native Science Fellows by Hopa Mountain.
Jason Baldes was the recipient of an EPA STAR graduate fellowship.
Tim Covino was awarded a 2 year NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship.
Kendra Kaiser was awarded the NSF Graduate Research PhD Fellowship
Christine Romano was awarded a three year NSF postdoctoral fellowship.
Leslie Jones earned a 3 year NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) PhD award.
Jerome J. Schleier III won the 2012 Hollandsworth Prize for Best Student Paper Presentation at the annual meeting of the American Mosquito Control Association in Austin, Texas.
Krista Ehlert won first place in the student paper oral presentation contest in the Range and Agriculture category at the Western Society of Weed Science 65th annual meeting in Reno, NV, March 12-15.
The following students were named Montana IoE Graduate Fellows: Melissa Bridges, Tim Covino, Leslie Jones, Ilai Keren, James Meadow, Fredric Pollnac, Patrick Lawrence, Jerome J. Schleier III, Tanya Skurski, and Tyler Smith.

2011 Awards

Tim Covino received first prize, and Tyler Smith and Fabian Nippgen received second prize for their PhD presentations at Montana American Water Resources Association.
Leslie Piper received first prize, John Mallard received second prize, and Brian Swindell received third prize for their Masters presentations at Montana American Water Resources Association.
Padraic Stoy received third prize for his poster presentation at Montana American Water Resources Association.
Kelsey Jencso, John Mallard and Tyler Smith received the Outstanding Student Paper Award for presentations at the 2010 Fall Meeting Hydrology of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco, California.
Oral Presentation - Kelsey Jencso, “Linking catchment structure to hydrologic function: Implications of catchment topography for patterns of landscape hydrologic connectivity and stream flow dynamics.”
Poster - John Mallard, “The role of stream network complexity in hydrologic turnover, nutrient retention, and watershed outlet sig-natures.”
Oral Presentation - Tyler Smith, “A Bayesian Toolkit for Modeling Perennial and Ephemeral Catchments”.
Seth Kurt-Mason took second place in the oral presentation category at the Annual Montana Water Conference in Helena, October 14-15, 2010.
Tanya Skurski was awarded a Western Society of Weed Science (WSWS) scholarship for her thesis work with Bruce Maxwell and Lisa Rew on “Quantifying community-level impacts of spotted knapweed and downy brome” and for her work with the WSWS board.
Melissa Medley won first place for her poster at the Montana Nutrition Conference.
Noelle Orloff received 2nd place in the student paper contest (oral presentation) at the Society for Range Management 64th Annual Conference. The title of her paper was “The role of relative size and nitrogen availability in competitive interactions be-tween cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum) and bluebunch wheat-grass (Pseudoroegneria spicata).”
Jason Baldes received the US Environmental Protection Agency STAR Fellowship award, 2011
Patrick Della Croce won the Student Travel Award, Western Division of the American Fisheries Society; Award for Dissertation Research, Montana Chapter of the American Fisheries Society Resource Action Fund.
Alexander Michaud: NASA Epscor
Fabian Nippgen: Commendation, Montana American Water Resources Association Annual Meeting

2010 Awards

Gabriel Bellante: ASPRS Rocky Mountain Region Scholarship Data Award
Eva Black: Society for Ecological Restoration, NW Chapter, Student Research Grant
North American Benthological Society President's Fund Award
Anna Bergstrom: Montana State Undergraduate Scholars program award
Tim Covino: US Environmental Protection Agency STAR Fellowship award, 2009-2011
Distinguished Fellow at EPA Science to Achieve Results Fellowship Conference
Patrick Della Croce: North American Benthological Society General Fund Award
Student Travel Grant. Western Division of the American Fishery Society
Jeremiah Erwin: Commendation at the Montana American Water Resources Association (AWRA) annual meeting
Kristen Gardner: US Environmental Protection Agency STAR Fellowship award
Kim Goodwin: Published thesis chapter winning best scientific paper of the year by Weed Science Society of America
Kendra Kaiser: Montana State Undergraduate Scholars program award
James Meadow: Award for the 2nd Annual Soils Workshop: Soils Metagenomics at Argonne National Labs Boyd Evison Fellowship for research in Yellowstone National Park
Leslie Piper: Student Presentation Award, Montana American Water Resources Association Annual meeting (1st place)
Seth Kurt-Mason: Student Presentation Award, Montana American Water Resources Association Annual meeting (2nd place)
Tanya Skurski: Award for presentation at Weed Science Society of America
Heidi Smith: NASA Earth and Space Graduate Fellowship

2009 Awards

Tim Covino was awarded the US Environmental Protection Agency STAR Fellowship award, 2009-2011 National Center for Airborne Laser Swath Mapping Seed Grant
Kristin Gardner received a US Environmental Protection Agency STAR Fellowship award
Seth Kurt-Mason received the Montana American Water Resources Association outstanding student presentation award, Fall 2009. His presentation was titled: Assessing groundwater-surface water interactions before and after stream channel reconstruction: science to inform the restoration process, Silver Bow Creek,
Montana.
John Mallard was awarded the National Center for Airborne Laser Swath Mapping Seed Grant
Able Mashamba was awarded the Montana Water Center Student Fellowship
Rebecca McNamara US Forest Service Co-op Program
Tanya Skurski received several awards: Montana Weed Control Association Scholarship, the
Ecological Society of America, Graduate Student Policy Award and the Weed Science Society of America, Graduate Student Travel Award
Diego Riveros-Iregui received the Horton Research Award, American Geophysical Union, the
Graduate Achievement Award for Outstanding Performance in a Doctoral Program, Montana State University National Science Foundation Division of Environmental Biology and an Ecosystem Science Cluster, Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant
Melissa Bridges was awarded 2nd place in the Graduate Student Paper Contest in the Agronomic Crops and Basic Science section of the annual meeting of the Western Society for Weed Science in February in Albuquerque. The title of her paper was Effect of Imazamox on Feral Rye at Different Physiological Stages.
Tanya Skurski was awarded 2nd place in the Graduate Student Poster Contest at the annual meeting of the Western Society for Weed Science in February in Albuquerque. The title of her poster was Assessing Plant Community and Environmental Covariates of Non-Indigenous Plant Impacts.
Trista Vick was selected to be one of 1,900 Space Grant Scholars and Fellows nationwide to receive a
NASA Space Grant Fellowship.
Adam Sigler produced the high quality DVD “Taking Care of Your Ground Water: A Homeowner’s
Guide to Well and Septic Systems”.
Adam Sigler received the following grant: Tribal Water Quality Video. Sponsored by Salish Kootenai College. (A Sigler P.I.) 06/15/2009 - 12/31/2009. $15,000.
Jerome Schleier won the MSU foundation Graduate Achievement Award for Outstanding Performance
in a Master’s Program.
Kelsey Jencso received a1st place student poster award from the MT section of the American Water Resources Association.
Carrie Taylor won an award in the Student Competition for Best Presentation at the Billings Symposium.
Kelsey Jencso was invited to give a talk at the American Geophysical Unions annual fall meeting in San Francisco. His presentation was titled "Hillslope hydrologic connectivity controls riparian groundwater turnover: Implications of catchment structure for riparian buffering and stream water sources."

2008 Awards

Shannon Savage was one of 6 students in the U.S. that received a fellowship to participate in the Vespucci Summer Institute in Fiesole, Italy this summer. The funding is through the Buffalo IGERT program in Geographic Information Science.
Tyler Smith was awarded a Montana Water Center Student Research Fellowship in 2008.
Jerome Schleier won first place in the Student Paper Competition at the Annual Meeting of the American Mosquito Control Association held in Reno, Nevada in March. His paper was titled, "Mosquito Management and Risk: Environmental Concentrations of Insecticides and thier Meaning."
Kelsey Jencso was awarded a Student Paper Award for his contributions to the American Geophysical Union annual meeting in San Francisco. His paper was entitled, "Topographic Controls on Hillslope-Riparian Water Table Continuity in a Set of Nested Catchments, Northern Rocky Mountains, Montana."
Tyler Smith was awarded a Student Paper Award for his contributions to the American Geophysical Union annual meeting in San Francisco as well. He wrote, "A Bayesian Uncertainty Framework for Conceptual Snowmelt and Hydrologic Models Applied to the Tenderfoot Creek Experimental Forest."
Markus Dieser was selected to attend a symposium for the Next Generation of Polar Researchers in May of 2008 in Colorado Springs, CO. There were over 100 international applicants and only 36 were chosen.

2007 Awards

Markus Dieser received an award for the best poster presentation at the 30th Congress of the International Association of Theoretical and Applied Limnology (SIL) in Montreal, Canada. His poster was entitled, "Microbial diversity and the role of bacterial pigments as cryo- or UV protectants in Pony Lake, Antarctica."
Diego Riveros was awarded the prestigious AGU Horton Research Award for 2007. This award is granted by the American Geophysical Union Hydrology Section which draws from graduate students worldwide and chooses 2 graduate students annually based on their Ph.D. research. Diego's NSF sponsored research focused on watershed hydrologic-carbon cycle linkages. He is the first MSU student to receive this grant of $10,000.
Kim Goodwin won 1st Place in the Graduate Student Oral Paper Competition at the Society for Range Management annual meeting in Reno, Nevada held February 9-16.

2006 Awards

Markus Dieser received a Sigma Xi Grant in Aid of Research which partially provided support for him to travel to Dave Kirchman's lab at the Universiy of Delaware to receive training in the Micro-FISH technique.
Marjolein Schat, an LRES Ph.D. student, was awarded first place for her student scientific paper presentation in the Ecology and Behavior: Subsection Biological Control session at the 2006 Entomological Society of America meeting in Indianapolis, Indiana.
LRES Ph.D. student Mica Buteler was awarded second place for her student scientific paper presentation in the Crop Protection session at the 2006 Entomological Society of America meeting in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Jill Mikucki, a past LRES doctoral student, was awarded the MSU Foundation Graduate Achievement Award for Outstanding Achievement in a Doctoral Program.
Tim Covino, an advisee of Brian McGlynn, received an Outstanding Student Paper Award for his presentation at the 2005 AGU meeting in San Francisco. His paper was entitled, "Groundwater-Stream Interactions in a Mountain-Valley Transition: Impacts on Catchment Hydrologic Response and Stream Water Chemistry."

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