Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources
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E&E Grad Students Denegre and Sanders Honored for Teaching
Jess Sanders (left) received the 2012 Graduate Student Teaching Award for her work as a teaching assistant for Department of Life Sciences, in the Teaching Assistant Project of the Grad
uate School - New Brunswick (GSNB), and most recently teaching K-12 on the Science Bus. Ashley DeNegre (right) received a Dissertation Teaching Award to develop and teach an undergraduate course next year based on her research, “Evolution and Modeling of Antibiotic Resistance.” Both students received their awards at the Annual GSNB Awards Reception April 25th. Congratulations to both!
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Undergraduate Selina Ruzi National Botany Student of Year
Selina A. Ruzi, a graduating EENR Senior, has been awarded a "Young Botanist of the Year Award" by the
Botanical Society of America, a distinction shared with only about 25 other students in the nation this year. She was nominated by professors for achievement in
academics and research. Selina
completed a G.H. Cook Honors project in the Handel lab this year. She also received the department's Buell Award for Outstanding Student in Ecology. Her hard work has paid off in a Fellowship to go to U. Illinois next year for her PhD in ecology. Congratulations and best of luck!
Our interdisciplinary department specializes in ecology, evolution, and natural resource conservation. We study the evolutionary origins and maintenance of biodiversity, conserving and restoring native ecosystems, and issues of global change such as managing natural resources within urban ecosystems.
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