2001-2002

Jun Bando, a short-term fellow in Ecology who studies the ramifications of the ecology and management of Japanese eelgrass on invasive cordgrass, has been selected as a Switzer Fellow for 2002. The mission of the Switzer Foundation (http://www.switzernetwork.org/) is "...to identify and nurture those individuals who have the ability and determination to make a significant environmental impact and to support projects which will have direct, early and measurable results in improving the quality of our natural environment."

Short-term fellow Evan Preisser (Population Biology) has received a Dissertation Improvement Grant from the National Science Foundation. Preisser uses field studies, lab work, and modelling to investigate predation by an invasive root nematode on native bush lupines.

Jen Lau , another short-term fellow in Population Biology, also received a Dissertation Improvement Grant from the National Science Foundation (to accompany her NSF pre-doctoral fellowship). Lau studies how an invasive plant indirectly affects a native plant through herbivory.

2002-2003

Long-term fellows Sarah Elmendorf (Ecology) and Suzanne Olyarnik (Population Biology) have been named as Pre-doctoral Fellows of the National Science Foundation. Elmendorf studies with Professor Susan Harrison and Olyarnik studies with Professor Jay Stachowicz.