Category Archives: Research

Shane Nieves wins Explorer’s Club grant

Shane Nieves, an undergraduate student at Florida Gulf Coast University, has won a grant from the Explorer’s Club Youth Activity fund, in national competition.  This grant will provide him with funds needed to travel to Madagascar, where he will be a field … Continue reading

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Dr. Sewall an invited speaker at PA Academy of Sciences

Dr. Sewall was invited to present at the annual meeting of the Pennsylvania Academy of Sciences on March 31st, 2012.  In his presentation, he discussed the response of North American bat populations and communities to white-nose syndrome, an emerging disease … Continue reading

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Dr. Sewall presents on an emerging disease affecting bats

Dr. Sewall has presented his research on white-nose syndrome, an emerging disease leading to severe population declines in hibernating bat species in North America, to a research symposium sponsored by the Northeast Bat Working Group.  The research, presented by Dr. … Continue reading

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Dr. Sewall named to World Commission on Protected Areas

Dr. Sewall has joined the World Commission on Protected Areas, which provides technical advice in support of the establishment and effective management of a world-wide representative network of terrestrial and marine protected areas.  These protected areas, including parks, reserves, natural … Continue reading

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Kim Reuter presents at conservation conference

On October 13th, 2011, Kim Reuter presented a poster on “Methods for Dugong Conservation in Developing Countries” at the Student Conference on Conservation Science in New York City.  In the research, which she completed with collaborators in the international non-governmental … Continue reading

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Rachel Maddaluna presents at Research Symposium

Rachel Maddaluna presented a poster entitled “Mitigation of Climate Change and Species Loss through Avoided Deforestation” at the College of Science and Technology’s Undergraduate Research Symposium.  Rachel presented this timely research, completed using global datasets and geographic information systems software, … Continue reading

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Kim Reuter presents at Graduate Research Symposium

Kim has presented at the Temple University Graduate Fellows Research Symposium, an interdisicplinary symposium for graduate students with fellowships from across the university to share research findings.  She gave an oral presentation on her research on “The effect of gametes … Continue reading

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New publication on conservation planning in the journal Conservation Biology

Dr. Sewall and collaborators have published a new article in Conservation Biology, the top global conservation journal.  In the article, called “Reorienting systematic conservation assessment for effective conservation planning,” they propose a new approach to assessing conservation priorities that integrates … Continue reading

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Kim Reuter wins NSF Predoctoral Fellowship

Congratulations to incoming doctoral student Kim Reuter, who has won a National Science Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship!  These prestigious fellowships, awarded after an extremely competitive national selection process, support some of the nation’s most promising early-career scientists in their graduate studies.  … Continue reading

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Bonnie Evans wins undergraduate research award

Bonnie Evans has earned an honorable mention in university-wide competition for the Library Prize for Undergraduate Research on Sustainability and the Environment for her research on correlates of extinction risk in lemurs.  This award has been established to recognize undergraduates … Continue reading

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