News

2015

Congratulations! Cedric obtained a graduate research grant!!

Great semester! Congratulations to Terry Torres for her Mycological Society of America Travel Award and her third place oral presentation at the Bio Research Symposium!

Congratulations to Eliese Potocek for her Undergraduate Honors Grant! (Spring 2015)!

Congratulations Ryan Deaver and Terry Torres Cruz for their WIU Sustainability Fund Awards!! (Spring 2015!)

We are very happy to welcome our new lab members: Terry Torres (now as a grad student  from Costa Rica)!, Benjamin Nave (Grad Student), Eliese Potocek (Honors Undergrad).

2014

Congratulations Paris Hamm! Best undergraduate poster presentation at the 2014 Mycological Society of America Meeting in East Lansing!

We welcome our new undergraduate students: Paris S. Hamm, Aleshia Johannsen and Michael Waggoner

Our NSF-RAHSS High School Students Ali Kerr and Dexter Redenius won second place in the FFA National Convention! Congratulations!

Congratulations Lynnaun Johnson and Shiloh Lueschow for their publication in Applied and Environmental Microbiology on White Nose Syndrom

2013

We welcome our new graduate students: Ryan Deaver and Maryam Almatruk and our new undergraduate students Tashina Peacock and Hannah Little

Congratulations to Terri Tobias and Katrina Sandona for their Sevilleta Graduate Student Summer Awards!

Congratulations Marina Small and Shiloh Lueschow for their Undergraduate Research Awards

2012

We recently organized the 2012 Smith Foray. See images and information in the website.

Congratulations to Lynnaun Johnson for his article for general public in the Newsletter of the Illinois Mycological Association.

We recently presented five posters at the All Scientist LTER meeting. We also co-organized a discussion group on fungal/bacterial environmental genomics at the  LTER meeting.

We are happy to welcome our new lab members: Katrina (Grad), Stefanie (Undergrad) and Brooke (Undergrad) and new collaborators.

Congratulations to:

     Terri Tobias for her Graduate Student Research Award to study endophytic fungi! - Spring 2012.

    Shiloh Lueschow for her Undergraduate Research and Scholarly Grant to study WNS 

    Lynnaun Johnson for his John W. Rippon Award - Medical Mycology  from the Mycological Society of America - 2012.

    Tabitha Williams for her Travel Award from the Mycological Society of America 2012

    Antonio Rosales for his Samuel L. Singer scholarship given to outstanding senior undergraduates in microbiology.

    Antonio Rosales and Katrina Sandona that finished their Degree in Biology!

    Dexter Redenius and Winston Smith for their outstanding work in the lab and their multiple awards. Dexter and Winston are both 9th High                 School Freshmen from Southeastern High School in Augusta, IL

             *1st place at Culver Stockton Science Fair at Culver Stockton College, Canton Mo. 

            *1 st place at the Regional Science Fair - University of IL, Springfield and they were chosen to participate in the IL State Science Fair.

            *Gold rating in the IL State Science Fair at University of IL Assembly Hall in Champaign, IL.

            *Dexter also ran for a student position on the executive board for the IL. Junior Academy of Science and won. He will hold a chair position to coordinate next years Science Fair. 

            *Second place in the Regional FFA Science Fair. FFA= Future Farmers of America 

    Shiloh Lueschow, Tabitha Williams, Lynnaun Johnson, Antonio Rosales, Zachary Gossage, Katrina Sandman, and Terri Tobias for their successful presentations at the 2012 Mycological Society Meeting in Yale University.

    Terri Tobias for her Graduate Student Research Award to study endophytic fungi! - Spring 2012.

    Shiloh Lueschow for her Undergraduate Research and Scholarly Grant to study WNS - Spring 2012.

    Lynnaun Johnson for his John W. Rippon Award - Medical Mycology from the Mycological Society of America - 2012.

    Antonio Rosales for his Samuel L. Singer scholarship given to outstanding senior undergraduates in microbiology.

2011

Congratulations to Sagar Yeraballi and Brooklyn Krings for completing their master's degrees at WIU, Summer 2011.

Congratulations to Lynnaun Johnson for his Illinois Mycological Association Scholarship  to study White Nose Syndrome in IL, Summer 2011.

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Congratulations Sagar Yeraballi and Lynnaun Johnson for their MSA Registration Fellowship awards to attend the MSA annual meeting in Alaska

Congratulations to Brooklyn D Krings for her first place poster award

Congratulations to Katrina Sandona and Antonio Rosales  for their Undergraduate Research and Scholarly Activity Grant, Spring 2011

Congratulations to Zachary Gossage for his Undergraduate Research and Scholarly Activity Grant, Fall 2010