An article authored by Drs. Emilie Lefevre, Peter Letcher and Martha Powell was published as the Featured Article in the most recent issue of Aquatic Microbial Ecology.

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Graduate student Julia Stevens has been awarded the Kathy Johnston Scholarship from the American Academy of Underwater Sciences. Julia is a PhD student working under the direction of faculty member Julie Olson. Congratulations Julia!

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Assistant Professor Carol Duffy has begun a collaborative research study with surgeon Dr. William “Skip” Pridgen to examine the causes of chronic pain.

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Graduate students Suja Rajan and Nikaela Flournoy won 1st and 2nd places in oral presentations at the 2012 Alabama Water Resources Conference held Sept 5-7. Suja and Nikaela work under the direction of Prof. Patty Sobecky.

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The oblong rocksnail (Leptoxis compacta), declared extinct in 2000 was recently rediscovered in the Cahaba River by a University of Alabama graduate student. Details of doctoral student Nathan Whelan’s discovery appear in the Aug. 8 issue of the scientific journal PLOS ONE. Nathan’s dissertation research is under the direction of Dr. Phil Harris. News of the (re)discovery was picked up by a variety of local, national and international publications, including The New York Times, Scientific American, the French Tribune and […]

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Graduate student Wei Wang has received the 2011 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad from the China Scholarship Council.  This competitive honor rewards academic excellence of self-financed Chinese students studying overseas.

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Biology majors Ben Henderson and Abigail Shelton are spending the summer in Huntsville, on research internships with Hudson-Alpha Institute.

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Graduate student John Pfeiffer has won the best student presentation award at the annual meeting of the American Malacological Society.

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Graduate student Nathan Roberts has published a review article in the journal Disease Models and Mechanisms. The article, “Maple syrup urine disease: new insights from a zebrafish model” was an assignment for a recent University class  Disease Models and Mechanisms, taught by Prof. Guy Caldwell.

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Dr. John L. Clark discovered and described a new plant species, Gasteranthus diverticularis, from a remote lowland rainforest in southern Ecuador. The new species is known from one population near the border of the Parque Nacional Podocarpus. The name reflects the resemblance of the flower’s ventral pouch with lateral protrusions to diverticula, a circumscribed pouch or sac that branches out from a hollow organ or structure. A photograph of the flower was featured on the cover of the journal Brittonia.

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