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October, 2007
- Associate Professor Randy Hewes received the 2007 Kinney-Sugg Award as the Outstanding Professor in the College of Arts and Sciences in recognition of his teaching, research, and service at the University of Oklahoma.
- Dave Hambright, Associate Professor at the University of Oklahoma Biological Station and Department of Zooogy, received a 5-year commitment for $1,764,835 from the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation for research on the invasive and toxic golden alga, Prymnesium parvum in Lake Texoma. Dr. Hambright is also the U.S. PI on a 4-year, $126,000 research project funded by the U.S.-Israel Binational Science Foundation that will attempt to model carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus fluxes within historical and present-day Lake Kinneret food web. This topic is of global interest today as anthropogenic stresses continue to alter species assemblages in ecosystems worldwide.
- Adam Fudickar heads to Lund University for its Ecology of Animal
Migration course via funding from NSF's MIGRATE Research Coordination Network.
September, 2007
- Throughput at the Zoology Core Molecular Lab is optimized for quick turn-around, typically less than 24 hours. "Full service" options as well as facilities and reagents to "do it yourself" are available. We are open to all Zoology students, staff, and faculty, as well as researchers from other units. Please contact Nancy <nzehrbach@ou.edu> or drop by Sutton Hall 310 for a complete list of services and competitive prices. Check back soon to see the lab's new webpage.
August, 2007
- Rich Broughton, associate professor at the Oklahoma Biological Survey and Department of Zoology, is the lead investigator of a 5-year, $3 million grant from the National Science Foundation’s Assembling the Tree of Life program. Dr. Broughton will lead a team of internationally-recognized experts on fish evolution. The project is directed at understanding the evolutionary history and diversity of the world’s fishes, a major unresolved problem in vertebrate phylogeny.
- Doug Mock and Patricia Schwagmeyer were awarded the Margaret Morse Nice Medal For Research from the Wilson Ornithological Society in recognition for their house sparrow work
- Michi Tobler won the Stoye Award from ASIH for his presentation on "Ecologcial Differentitation and Reproduictive Isolation along Environmental Gradients in Poecilia Mexicana (Poeciliidae, Teleostei)
- Doug Gaffin voted President Elect for the Association of Deans and Directors of University Colleges
July, 2007
David McCauley received a 2 year $148,000 NIH-R03 grant from the NIDCR,
the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, to study "SoxE
gene regulation of Type II collagen in the sea lamprey Petromyzon
marinus." The goal of the project is to determine if genes that
regulate the development of cartilage took on that role early in the history
of vertebrates. Dr. McCauley is using a primitive vertebrate, the sea
lamprey, as a proxy for the ancestral or early vertebrate. In the lamprey,
he will interrupt the function of genes that are known in higher vertebrates
to regulate cartilage development, and will determine if cartilage formation
is then affected. This study is important because it will tell us if the
developmental mechanisms that are used to form cartilage are similar among
various vertebrate species.
May, 2007
- Matt Dugas was awarded a highly competitive Student Research Grant
from the Animal Behavior Society.
- Congratulations to Heather Rice, who was awarded second place for
her poster at Research Day at the Capitol 2007, sponsored by NSF, Oklahoma
EPSCoR and Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education.
Congratulations to the following students who were recently awarded scholarships
and honors in Zoology.
Jane A. Quade Scholarship winners:
- Rachel Kempf
- Amber Makowicz
- Barret Phillips
Zoology Graduate Student Research Award:
Thompson Award for Graduate Teaching:
Zoology Excellence in Graduate Teaching Award:
Outstanding Zoology Graduates for Spring 2007
- Lori Garman
- Jeff Hart
- Michael Hood
- Ann Kruckeberg
- Kitty Lee
- Amber Makowicz
- Jeff McBride
- Scott Melson
- Melissa Musser
- Edward Nguyen
- Heather Rice
- Patrick Risch
M. Blanche Adams and M. Frances Adams Summer Graduate Scholarships:
- Joanna Buley
- Gabriel Costa
- David Donoso
- Adam Fudickar
- Tingting Gu
- Ruediger Riesch
- Jonathan Shik
- Stephanie Strickler
M. Blanche Adams and M. Frances Adams Academic Year Graduate Scholarships:
- Daniel Allen
- Joanna Buley
- Gabriel Costa
- Adam Fudickar
- Tingting Gu
- Chunjing Qu
- Ruediger Riesch
- Donald Shepard
- Jeff Wesner
M. Blanche Adams and M. Frances Adams Summer Undergraduate Scholarships:
- Joshua Johnson
- Rachel Kempf
- Ann Kruckeberg
- Kathleen McAdams
- Evelyn Meyers
- Kendall Moore
M. Blanche Adams and M. Frances Adams Academic Year Undergraduate
Scholarships:
- Joshua Johnson
- Amber Kuzmic
- Jennifer Wallace
- Chad Knight
- Taylor Sprague
- Christina Forest
- Tyler Kallsen
- Quinci Layman
- Evelyn Meyers
- Katherine Shoush
- Jay Dalto
- Keyaria Gray
- Jonathan Smith
- Michelle Morgan
- Krishna Vedala
- Shilpa Verma
April, 2007
Congratulations to:
- Ingo Schlupp and Phil Gibson recipients of 2007 CAS Junior Faculty
Summer Fellowships.
- Liz Bergey, recipient of the Fulbright Award to teach six months
in Thailand academic year 2007-2008.
- Mike Kaspari, named Bullard Fellow at Harvard
University spring and summer 2008.
- Caryn Vaughn, who was awarded the Donald W. Tinkle Research Excellence
Award from the Southwestern Association of Naturalists, representing
an outstanding body of research during the last ten years, on April
21.
- Cindy Gordon, who received the Good Teaching Award from the faculty
awards committee at the Tribute to the Faculty on April 16.
- Doug Gaffin, who received an OU Foundation Excellence in Teaching
Award at the Tribute to the Faculty on April 16.
March, 2007
- Daniel Allen received a First Place Prize for a student poster at
the national Freshwater Mollusk Conservation Society symposium.
- Ola Fincke received a 4-year, $370K grant "The evolution of female-specific
color variation in damselflies" from the National Science Foundation.
This project will test hypotheses about possible benefits of multiple
color morphs for females, and will quantify the cost of the female variation
on mate-searching males. Population density and reflectance patterns
of sexual signals will be quantified across populations and species
to better understand the role of sexual harassment in the evolution
and maintenance of the polymorphism. The work will advance our understanding
of the role of sexual conflict in shaping reproductive behavior and
sexual signaling, and provide a springboard for assessing the role of
sexual conflict in speciation.
January, 2007
- Congratulations to Matt Chumchal (OU Zoology Ph.D. program). Beginning
in August 2007, Matt will be joining the Biology Department at TCU (Ft.
Worth, Tx) as a new tenure-track Assistant Professor of Ecology and
Vertebrate Biology.
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