PhD candidate Matt Petrie successfully passed his qualifying exams last week.  He is now fully occupied in preparing his Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant proposal for the upcoming NSF deadline. Congratulations to Matt!

The University of New Mexico has been awarded a grant to complete the third and final phase of a long term strategic plan to improve the Sevilleta Education and Research Facility (SERF) for visiting scientists, summer REU students, graduate students and group training. This project will complete and equip shell spaces in the facility to provide growth chambers and a computer laboratory.

The Ecological Society of America established the SEEDS Program to, "diversify and advance the ecology profession through opportunities that stimulate and nurture the interest of underrepresented students to not only participate in ecology, but to lead.