We have additional team changes at the end of the year. Tyler Douglas filed his dissertation mid December and is now officially Dr. Douglas. Inga Conti-Jerpe finished her tenure as NSF PRFB and is moving to Hong Kong to join Lingnan University as a tenure-track faculty. Congratulations Tyler and Inga!
It was nice to see some folks in person!
Left to right, back to front: Connor Tumelty, Tyler Douglas, Inga Conti-Jerpe, Novia Keyfetz-Vuong, Becca Tarvin, Alfonso Fierro, Valeria Ramírez Castañeda
2 May 2021
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!
