June 2009
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The newest member of the Zoology faculty will be Dr. J.P. Masly. Through research in the fruit fly genus Drosophila, he is examining molecular mechanisms underlying speciation and adaptation of organisms. He is currently at the University of Southern California and will arrive at OU in August, 2010.
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Brian Davis, PhD student with Dr. Richard Ciffeli, was awarded a Provost's Graduate Teaching Assistant Awards in recognition of his excellence in teaching Human Anatomy.
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Matt Dugas, PhD student with Dr. Doug Mock, has been awarded a Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant by NSF.
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Tyler Gunther, an undergraduate in Dr. Bing Zhang’s lab, won a "Distinction in Undergraduate Research Award" for his presentation at the "Student Research and Performance Day".
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Dr. Richard Cifelli was selected as an editor for Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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Dr. Gary Wellborn and Dr. Ingo Schlupp receiving REU supplements to their grants.
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Dr. Gary Wellborn received a "Most Inspiring Professors" award from OU Athletics.
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Dr. Chris Leary, a former Ph.D. student under Dr. Rosemary Knapp and Janalee Caldwell, has accepted tenure track faculty position at University of Mississippi.
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Nancy Blass, Assistant Director of Premedical Professions Advising, was elected to the Board of Directors of Southeastern Association of Advisors of Health Professions
March 2009
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Dan Allen, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Zoology, has been awarded an NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant. Allen’s research investigates how the diversity of freshwater mussel assemblages influences the quantity of nutrients provided by mussels to stream food webs. Previous experiments suggest that mussels increase nitrogen levels in streams which leads to increases in algae abundance, and consequently increases grazing aquatic insect populations. Adult aquatic insects are an important food source for terrestrial predators in riparian forests. These data suggest that if the biodiversity of mussel assemblages increases the quantity of nutrient subsidies, then the abundance of adult aquatic insects and riparian predators should also increase when mussels are present, and this effect should be stronger when more mussel species are present. Allen’s research will contribute to understanding of relationships between biodiversity and ecosystem function, which will ultimately help scientists predict the consequences of extinctions and climate change on ecosystem processes.
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Penny Hopkins (Noble Foundation Presidential Professor of Zoology) received a Fulbright Specialists grant from the Fulbright Foundation in Washington, DC. She will be assisting the faculty at the Central Institute of Fisheries Education in Mumbai, India to develop a curriculum in crustacean endocrinology. She will be assisting their efforts to establish a PhD program in crustacean aquaculture at their university. She will also teach a short course in crustacean endocrinology to PhD students and give a guest lecture at Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, India.
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Brian Langerhans, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Oklahoma Biological Station, was awarded the American Society of Naturalists Young Investigators Prize. The prize recognizes outstanding and promising work by early-career investigators (receiving their doctorate in the three years preceding the deadline or in their final year of graduate school), and is one of the most prestigious awards offered to young scientists in this field. As part of the award, he will present a Young Investigator Prize Lecture at the Evolution 2009 meeting, and receive an award of $500 and travel allowance to the meeting.
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