Congratulations are in order to Diana Ayala, Caitlin Hodges, and Mara Cloutier on successful defenses of their PhD dissertations! Diana (Environmental Engineering and Biogeochemistry) is a Fulbright Scholar from Ecuador, and her dissertation is Omics-Enabled Evaluation of Microbial Communities in Acidic Environmental Systems.  Diana’s BGC co-advisors were Bill Burgos and Jenn Macalady. Caitlin (Soil Science…

Congratulations to Allison Franklin on her successful PhD defense! Allison is a PhD in Soil Science and Biogeochemistry and her dissertation “Analysis of environmental fate, transport and toxicological impacts of antibiotics and antibiotic resistant bacteria in agroecosystems impacted by wastewater treatment plant effluent.”

Congratulations to Paulina Piotroswski on her successional PhD defense! Piotrowski earned a PhD in Chemistry and Biogeochemistry with this dissertation “Enhancing analytical methods towards the geochemical and biogeochemical fingerprinting of shale gas systems”. Piotroswski’s next stop is as a post-doctoral scholar at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Good luck Paulina!

Diana Ayala was awarded a SIAM Talent Grant to attend a summer school in anaerobic microbiology in the Wagenigen University in the Netherlands in August 2017. I think this is an amazing opportunity for other people who are also interested in anaerobic microbes. Here is the link of the SIAM website http://anaerobic-microbiology.eu/talent-talk/?platform=hootsuite . “The lab work…