May 2012

Grad news: Three students receive Rackham International Research Awards

Alison Gould's underwater research takes her to Okinawa, Japan where she works with bioluminescent fish. David Marvin explores woody vines in the tropical forests of Panama. Beatriz Otero Jimenez will travel to Chiapas, Mexico to study agricultural systems.

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Research feature: King and Rohani awarded $1.7 million to help solve riddle of resurgent whooping cough

Professors Aaron King and Pej Rohani have been awarded a $1.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health for a five-year study that will try to explain the changing patterns of whooping cough outbreaks, using records from several countries spanning more than 70 years.

Thanks to widespread childhood vaccination, whooping cough (pertussis) once seemed to be under control. But the bacterial illness, which in infants causes violent, gasping coughing spells, has made a comeback in the United States and some other developed countries since the 1980s.

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Alumni profile: Sophia Holley Ellis endows LSA student scholarship

(B.A. Biology and German 1949, M.S. Botany 1950, M.A. German 1964) Sophia Holley Ellis retired in June 2006 after 56 years as a biology and German teacher in the Detroit Public Schools. Her recent $25,000 gift created the Sophia Holley Ellis Scholarship endowment to extend her support to students with financial need in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts – with priority given to students from the Detroit Public Schools.

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EEB Frontiers students graduate to
U-M's EEB Ph.D. program

Since Frontiers’ inception in 2008, four EEB Frontiers Master’s Program students have moved on to EEB’s doctoral program: Cindy Bick, Serge Farinas, Theresa Wei Ying Ong, and Senay Yitbarek.

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Reznicek honored with Michigan Botanical Club Lifetime Achievement Award

In recognition of Dr. Tony Reznicek's countless contributions to the understanding of Michigan plants and ecology and the Great Lakes Region, the Michigan Botanical Club has bestowed their Lifetime Achievement Award upon him. He is a research scientist and the curator of vascular plants at the U-M Herbarium.

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