New awards and 3 new lab members

It’s grant season…

• Valeria was awarded a Tinker Field Research Grant from the Center for Latin America Studies at UC Berkeley

• Valeria, Majo, and Tyler each received funding from the MVZ for summer research

• Kannon Pearson was recognized by the Rausser College Dean’s Office of Instruction and Student Affairs Award Committee with the Kenneth L. Babcock Prize in Environmental Science for his outstanding research and outreach efforts. Kannon will be joining us as a new graduate student in the fall.

• TBD was awarded an NSF PRFB and will be joining the lab in the fall. More information soon!

• Sofia Beskind, currently an undergraduate researcher in the Matz Lab at UT Austin, will be joining us this summer to do research on Epipedobates, funded by an NSF REU grant that she received. Congrats Sofia!