SES undergraduate student Bella Roberts and her fellow student cofounders were awarded a spot in the President's Buckeye Accelerator along with $50,000 in March 2023 for their business Solstice Outreach. The social enterprise provides interactive STEM programming to ages ranging from kindergarten to workplace professionals using portable planetarium shows to inspire audiences, prioritizng outreach to underserved communities. This March 2024 they received their portable planetarium dome and their first shows start on April 1st.
Congratulations to former MS student Kathy Hollis, who has been named the inaugural Director of Collections at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. Kathy Hollis worked with Professor Bill Ausich during her MS thesis. More information can be found here: https://carnegiemnh.org/press/carnegie-museum-of-natural-history-announces-kathy-hollis-as-inaugural-director-of-collections-care-and-access/
For 225 years, confusion and controversy have surrounded the spelling and/or authorship of Megalonyx, a giant ground sloth from North America. In a review of the earliest scientific publications in paleontology, Loren Babcock shows that Megalonyx was validly named according to the rules of zoological nomenclature by Thomas Jefferson in 1799, even though its type species, M. jeffersonii, was not described until nearly a quarter-century later.
Study available in our journal: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1195.117999
Current PhD candidate Frank Chen won first place in the “Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences - Posters” category at the Edward Hayes Graduate Research Forum on March 1st. Congratulations, Frank!
Professor Ozeas Costa and his collaborators in China just published a new article on the “Nutrient budgets and biogeochemical dynamics in the coastal regions of northern Beibu gulf, South China Sea” in the journal Marine Environmental Research. The article is available at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marenvres.2024.106447.