April 2013: Undergraduate Carissa Zielinski earns high distinction for her senior thesis on tripartite interactions between legumes, rhizobia, and mycorrhizal fungi!

March 2013: Graduate ! We celebrate with cinnamon rolls from the Bread Co. on Goodwin, as is customary:

March 2013: Katy finally signs up for a Google Scholar page!

March 2013: Kathryn Solorzano-Lowell and Jennifer Jones will join the Heath-Dalling groups in fall 2013 in the pursuit of aquatic fungi. Congratulations to them both on receiving IGERT fellowships and to Kathryn for winning an IL Distinguished Fellowship!

February 4, 2013: Maren Friesen and Katy’s letter in New Phytologist comes out online!

December 9, 2012: IB496: Amplify the Signal runs outreach activities at special Biodiversity Day 1-5pm at the Orpheum!

December 2012: Collaborative NSF grant on intermontane refugia in the pacific NW, led by Dan Gavin with Solomon Dobrowski and Feng-Sheng Hu, is recommended for funding!

November 29, 2012: Start revving your Ecological Genetics engines: IB 405 starts spring 2013!

November 29, 2012: Science Politely, SIB graduate students’ contributions to Champaign-Urbana’s local online magazine Smile Politely, continues to attract top readership. Michelle Duennes’s article is the #1 article last week. Woot!

November 2, 2012: Katy and students (Lisa Powers, Dan Scholes, and Abby Berkey) from outreach course Amplify the Signal are featured on Smile Politely Radio (5:30pm Fridays on WEFT Community Radio, and by podcast)!