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Best talk and poster awards for OEB PhD students!

OEB PhD students Kim Avecedo and Adri Grow each won awards at the Pioneer Valley Microbiology Symposium!  Kim won the best Poster award, and Adri won the best talk award.  Congrats to both!

March 24, 2024
Congrats to OEB faculty and students for an exciting paper on fish body size change!
Hands holding a small fish with the title, "Why are fish getting smaller as waters warm? Not because of their gills, finds study led by UMass Amherst".

Lead author Josh Lonthair - along with OEB students Estefany Argueta and John Swenson, as well as OEB faculty Lisa Komoroske - and co-authors - all worked to publish an exciting paper in the Journal of Experimental Biology showing how fish change is related to ecology.  Congrats to all! 

March 24, 2024
OEB PhD candidate Katrina Zarrella Smith awarded a NMFS-Sea Grant Fellowship

Katrina was selected to be the recipient of a 2023 National Marine Fisheries Service-Sea Grant Joint Fellowship. Her project is titled "Building a next-generation, climate-ready stock assessment informed by spatially explicit population processes". Since 1999, when the fellowship began, just over 120 individuals have been awarded this competitive fellowship. Amazing news, Katrina! More here.

March 24, 2024
We are pleased to announce the following OEB PhD thesis defense

Katie Schroeder
March 7 at 10 AM
Dissertation Title: NESTLINGS AND NEURONS: EARLY LEARNING, AUDITORY PERCEPTION, AND SIGNAL EVOLUTION IN SONGBIRDS

March 7, 2024

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