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Crowdsourcing science?  Check out this cool experiment.com project on spore dormancy from Earl Kang, PBIO and Fungal Biology Group grad student in Momany lab.

https://experiment.com/projects/regulation-of-spore-dormancy-in-pathogenic-fungi

Callie Oldfield was one of eleven recipients of a UGA Campus Sustainability grant through this year's Sustainability Grant competition.

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.