ASHMAN LAB NEWS

3 April 2012:

It is with great pleasure that we announce George Meindl has won the prestigious Elizabeth Baranger Excellence in Teaching Award. George was one of 7 finalists out of an initial 100 applicants. Keep up the outstanding work George!

1 April 2012:

George Meindl and Kyle DeHart attended the 88th Annual PA Academy of Sciences Conference held at Cedar Crest College this past weekend. George took 1st place in the poster presentation, receiving the Anne Spychala Student Presentation Award. Keep up the great work George!

28 March 2012:

Graduate student George Meindl recently received The American Society of Naturalists Student Research Award. Congratulations George!

22 March 2012:

It is with great pleasure that we announce that three of our graduate students, George Meindl, Gerardo Arceo-Gomez, and Matthew Koski have all won outstanding presentation awards at this years Graduate Student Exposition. Congratulations to the three of you! Job well done!

15 March 2012:

Kate LeCroy will be joining the Ashman lab in the fall as the newest graduate student! Welcome to the lab Kate!

15 March 2012:

Graduate student Marina Wolowski is visiting the Ashman Lab for the next few months in order to work on her project focusing on 'Pollen limitation of the ornithophilous assemblage in a Montaine Atlantic Forest'. She is currently working on her P.h.D at the Botanical Garden of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Welcome to the lab Marina!

15 March 2012:

Graduate student George Meindl has recently received a Botany in Action Fellowship from Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens. Way to go George!

10 January 2012:

Graduate student Matt Koski was recently awarded a Sigma Xi Grant in Aid of Research. Congratulations Matt!

8 December 2011:

Graduate student George Meindl has recently passed his comprehensive examination in pursuit of his Ph.D. Way to go George!

3 December 2011:

Graduate student Gerardo Arceo-Gomez has recently passed his comprehensive examination in pursuit of his Ph.D. Outstanding work Gerardo!

2 December 2011:

Anneka Jankowiak and Kyle DeHart, both undergraduates in the Ashman Lab have received the Brackenridge Fellowship from the Honors College for the spring 2012 semester. Congratulations to both of you!

7 November 2011:

Kyle DeHart, an undergraduate in the Ashman Lab, recently received a $500.00 grant from the Office of Undergraduate Research for research supplies. Congratulations Kyle!

17 October 2011:

Clare Kohler, an undergraduate in the Ashman Lab, has received this years prestigious Norman H. Horowitz Fellowship. This fellowship will allow Clare to continue conducting her research on the relationship between plant biodiversity and pollen sufficiency. Congratulations Clare!

7 October 2011:

Graduate student Gerardo Arceo-Gomez has won the Mary Edmonds Graduate Student Award for the best graduate student publication for 2010-2011. Excellent work Gerardo!

25 September 2011:

The Ashman Lab would like to welcome Katie Schuller to the lab. Katie will be serving as our new lab technician. If you would like to read about Katie's interests and background please visit the people page. Welcome to the Lab Katie!!

20 September 2011:

Rebecca Dalton, an undergraduate researcher in the lab, has received her second prestigious HHMI Fellowship for the academic year. She will continue her studies involving plant inbreeding depression.

15 September 2011:

Graduate student George Meindl has won the award for the best graduate student poster at the annual Department of Biological Sciences retreat at the Pymatuning Laboratory of Ecology. This is the second year in a row that he has won this award. Great work George!

10 September 2011:

Graduate student Matthew Koski was awarded the Ivy McManus Scholarship for outstanding performance during his first year of graduate school. 

1 September 2011:

A new greenhouse has been completed for the purposes of conducting plant research studies. The greenhouse is located above Langley Hall. This will give the Ashman Lab  the ability to perform more extensive plant genetic studies using populations with greater number of individuals.

5 August 2011:

The Ashman Lab comes online for the first time! Kyle DeHart, an undergraduate in the lab, volunteered to undertake this project and we are quite thrilled with the turnout. Thanks Kyle!

4 August 2011:

This summer graduate student Matt Koski attended the MicroMorph Workship at UC Boulder on the Microevolution of Development.

3 August 2011:

Graduate student Matt Koski recently received a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship which will provide him with three years of funding! Outstanding work Matt!

2 August 2011:

Rajanikanth Govindarajulu will be participating in the Next-Gen Sequencing data acquisition and analyses workshop organized through the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center, Raleigh held during August 15-27, 2011. He obtained a grant through the generous support from NEScent to participate in the workshop that will help him build the programming skill sets that are required to handle and analyze the Next-Gen sequence data that are being generated through different projects related to Fragaria in Dr. Ashman's lab in collaboration with the Oregon State University.

1 August 2011:

We are proud to announce that three of our graduate students, Matt Koski, Gerardo Arceo-Gomez, and George Meindl were awarded the 2011 Rosemary Grant Award($2500 each) from The Society of the Study of Evolution. Excellent work guys!

31 July 2011:

Matt Koski and Gerardo Arceo-Gomez were recently awarded the BSA Student Research Grant Award. Great work!

30 July 2011:

Graduate student Gerardo Arceo-Gomez along with Dr. Ashman have had their recent work accepted for publication in New Phytologist. The title of the article is, "Heterospecific pollen deposition: does diversity alter the consequences?" Job well done!

21 July 2011:

The collaborative effort between the Ashman Lab and the Outreach Program has made its debut this summer. "The Strawberry Caper", a middle-school scientific curriculum recently wrapped up the teacher enrichment portion of its development. Seven middle-school science teachers joined us for a week of hands-on laboratory science in a workshop style format and all of them found it to be quite beneficial. We are looking forward to the curriculum's implementation into the classroom beginning this year.

20 July 2011:

It is with both great sadness, and joy, that we send off our former lab technician, Brianna McTeague. Brianna will be pursuing her P.h.D at Arizona State University where she will be continuing her studies in the field of botany. Good luck Brianna! We will miss you!

  1 July 2011:

We are proud to welcome Miss Stacy Falk into our lab for the summer. Stacy is a biology educator from South Park High School. Welcome to the lab Stacy!

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