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Congrats to Dr. Kathrin Stanger-Hall for her new NSF award to study fireflies “Shedding light on firefly phylogenetic systematics and the evolution of their sexual signal types.”  This is part of a large collaborative grant with BYU and UFL (Fall 2017- 2021). Way to go!!

Ariane Wong (Genetics major) has also been awarded a CURO research scholarship for Spring 2017. Ariane will study pollen dispersal patterns in natural populations of a spring flower native to GA -- the wild geranium, Geranium maculatum.

Undergrads Alex Smith (Plant Biology major) and Rebecca Sussman (Biology major) have each been awarded a CURO Research Assistantship of $1000 for Spring 2017 to do research mentored by graduate student Ashley Rea in the Donovan lab.

Garrett Vollino was awarded a Research Assistantship from CURO (Center for Undergraduate Research Opportunities) at UGA for his research during Fall 2016 on characterizing the signaling environment of fireflies ($1,000).

The Atlas of Georgia Plants portal, with images of specimens from the University of Georgia Herbarium (GA) and Valdosta State University Herbarium (VSC), has been available for several months.  The portal is hosted by Louisiana State University.  The digitization work has been funded…

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