Sarah awarded GRASS funding

Congratulations, Sarah on receiving a Graduate Research Award for Science and Scholarship (GRASS) from the Biology Department.

Sami earns Master’s degree from SU

Congratulations to Samantha Blau for earning her Master’s degree in Biotechnology. We are so proud of your accomplishment! Good luck in your new position working at Woods Hole!

OCC student presents at SOURCE

Thanh Nguyen, a student from Onondaga Community College, presented her work comparing mycorrhizal effects on skypilot resource dynamics at the SOURCE Undergraduate Research Symposium. Thank you to Thanh for a wonderful summer internship in the Becklin Lab!

Becklin Lab presents at the 2021 SOURCE Symposium

Members of the Becklin Lab presented their summer research at the SOURCE symposium. What an amazing event showcasing SU student work. Great job, Alex, Elena, Laurel, William, and Skye!

Becklin Lab presents at ESA 2021

Sarah presented work from her dissertation as a contributed talk at the Ecological Society of America’s annual meeting. Her talk entitled, “Water availability impacts intraspecific plant-soil feedbacks in an alpine system” was part of the COS 13: Species Interactions 1 section of the international conference. Congratulations Sarah!

Alex receives WiSE Fellowship

Alex completed her first field season in the Rocky Mountains! Her project, which was funded by a Women in Science and Engineering Fellowship, explored the impacts of increasing ant abundance on soil characteristics and microbial communities.

Darwin the Bee Dog visits Pennsylvania Mountain

Darwin’s Bee Dogs are highly specialized Conservation K9s trained to find bees. Research Jacqueline Staab uses Darwin to locate bumblebee nests so that she can learn more about these increasingly threatened pollinator species. We met up with Darwin and Jacqueline when they visited field sites in Park and Summit Counties earlier this summer. Check out this brief interview to learn more about Darwin’s work!

Congratulations Beki

Beki graduated with her Bachelors in Earth and Environmental Science! Congratulations, Beki! We will miss you in lab!

Sarah awarded EMPOWER Seed Grant

Sarah was awarded a seed grant through the EMPOWER program to attend BOTANY and ESA’s virtual meetings. Congratulations Sarah!