News

Chera Watts, the academic advisor for Plant Biology, represented our department at the Discovery Showcase Majors Fair held on October 19 in the Tate Student Center. Chera shared information about our major, research opportunities and classes with interested undergraduates.

Rebecca (Shirk) Kartzinel, who earned her PhD under the mentorship of Jim Hamrick, accepted a position as Assistant Professor (Research) in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Brown University.  

Congratulations to our first cohort of PBIO 4960 Undergraduate Research Award winners - Jessica Brown, Sara Dorhmi, Han-Tae Kim, Alex Smith, Somer Rowe, Jason Kobylanski, and Rosemary Wills! They presented their research at the Plant Biology Student Symposium last month in our poster session.

The Plant Biology Student Symposium will be Mon., Aug. 22, 2016 at the Georgia Museum of Art.