Category: Lab News

News, events and recent happenenings

Oh the places you’ll go

  The Center for Culture, History, and Environment graduate group recently hosted a place-based storytelling slam.  10 or so graduate students in a range of environmental fields shared stories of their work or life where place was pivotal. Full audio will be up soon, but in the meantime, here’s the link to a story that …

Claudio to present in departmental seminar

Join us on Friday, October 26th to hear Claudio’s talk “Sustainable bio-energy landscapes: can we balance our needs for biodiversity and production?” 2 – 3pm, 184 Russell Labs (1630 Linden Drive), as part of the Department of Forest & Wildlife Ecology seminar series.

Mentoring women in STEM

Kaitlin is co-leading Women in Technology Sharing Online (WitsOn!) today, an online open source six-week course and discussion for women, from middle school through graduate school, in STEM fields. She’s writing about her non-linear path to a career and higher education in ecology, as well her experience as a female scientist in the workplace.  Join …

Going away party for Heidi, Chase and Forrest

The Gratton Lab crew used the sad occasion that our postdoc Heidi is leaving us for Sewanee to have a party at la casa di Gratton. We also had to say goodbye to our LTEs Chase and Forrest who were a great help to us especially during the field season.

36 hrs in NJ

Last week I had the good fortune to be invited to Rutgers University by my friend and colleague Cesar Rodriguez-Saona.  Cesar and I go back a long ways to our days in California when we were graduate students.  We met a Gordon Research Conference on plant-insect interactions in 1997 and have remained friends since.  Cesar …