September 2012
Our grads rock: volunteers, award-winners, fellowships and more
 David Marvin scores a NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship.
Katherine Crocker volunteers as a Rackham International Connect Ambassador.
Cindy Bick wins a Rackham Merit Fellowship, one of the most prestigious awards for incoming students.
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Research feature: Cardinale leads team calling for preservation of biological diversity
 Twenty years after the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, 17 prominent ecologists are calling for renewed international efforts to curb the loss of biological diversity.
Over the past two decades, strong scientific evidence has emerged showing that loss of the world's biological diversity reduces the productivity and sustainability of natural ecosystems and decreases their ability to provide society with goods and services essential for human well-being, according to an international team of ecologists led by U-M's Professor Bradley Cardinale.
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Alumni profile: Chakrabarty pens book "A Guide to Academia"
 Prosanta Chakrabarty (Ph.D. EEB 2006) “I wanted to put all the advice I was given by lots of good people (mostly at Michigan) onto paper.” So, he started writing the book as a little side project without much intention of it being anything but a reference to give to students.
Wouldn't you know: Wiley recently published his book called, "A Guide to Academia: Getting into and surviving grad school, postdocs and a research job." Chakrabarty's book is receiving glowing reviews (including a recent review in the journal Science and is available on Amazon.
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Welcome 2012 master's and Ph.D. cohorts!
 EEB is excited to announce the 2012 Ph.D. and master’s student cohorts. Eight doctoral students and eight master’s students joined EEB this fall.
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Video: five million Museum of Zoology specimens find new home
 The “epic move” of some five million museum specimens stored in ethanol is captured on video, featuring an interview with Professor Diarmaid Ó Foighil, museum curator and director.
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M-Bio's second successful summer
 "The 2012 M-Bio Scholars are now really well prepared to thrive academically, personally, and professionally over the next four years - and beyond!” said Claire Sandler, director of the Science Learning Center.
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