2024 Senior Graduation Award Winners
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Six awards are presented annually by the Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources.
The award winners are as follows:
2024 G.H. Cook Scholars
Undergraduate Research Experiences
![Chigger mites](images/ch-mites-2.gif)
Jayne Hessler in Dr. Henry John-Alder's lab studies the movement of Chigger mites
![Olivia Matise](images/2018/Olivia-Matise-collage-1.jpg)
Olivia Matise's Summer Study Abroad
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James Duffy (SEBS '18), one of our own graduating EENR seniors was selected from a pool of 12 senior SEBS students to give the Class Representative Remarks at the SEBS 2018 Convocation on May 14, 2018!
He has a Major in Ecology, Evolution, & Natural Resources, and Minors in Environmental Policy and Environmental Geomatics.
![checking names of plant specimens in Lena Struwe's lab. Photo credit: Lena Struwe](images/2016/spotlights/Janel-Borden-spotlight.jpg)
Janel Borden checking names of plant specimens to be sorted into the APG III system at the Chrysler Herbarium.
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Anna Korn is entering data for a native plant species restoration experiment involving Jamaica Bay fringing habitats in Dr. Myla Aronson's lab.
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Brian Schumm works with Brooke Maslo studying white-nose syndrome affected bat species and performing behavioral observations on threatened shorebird species.
![Photo: Identifying a weed under the microscope in Lena Struwe's lab. Photo credit: Leif Struwe](images/2015/spotlights/Alisha_Sharma_microscopy.jpg)
Alisha Sharma is identifying a weed under the microscope in Lena Struwe's lab
![Natasia Jacko](images/2015/spotlights/Natasia-lab-pic_spotlight.jpg)
Natasia Jacko is researching plant viruses and their effects in Siobain Duffy's lab
![Rob Helsel](images/2017/spotlights/Nassau-Grouper-Rob-Helsel.jpg)
Rob Helsel spent his summer of 2017 interning at the Central Caribbean Marine Institute on Little Cayman, completing field studies on marine herbivory, urchin populations, and reef monitoring
![Max Nausbaum, Sam Fagundz, Rita Grunberg (grad student) and Elise McKean](images/2018/Nausbaum-Fagundez-Grunberg-McKean.jpg)
Congratulations to poster winner Samantha Fagundez at the Mid-Atlantic ESA conference. Maxwell Nausabum and Elise McKean also presented posters. They all did their research in Michael Sukhdeo's lab under supervision of Rita Grunberg (PhD candidate)