BIG congrats to Cornell University Entomology Students to Suzi Caflin (Thaler and Power Labs), Phil Houtz (Douglas Lab) and Robin Schwenke (Lazzaro Lab) for recognition of their proposals to the National Science Foundation Predoctoral Research Fellowship Program.
Suzi, a second year student, will receive a financial award for 3 years of graduate support.
Phil and Robin, first year students, both received honorable mentions for their proposals.
NSF received >13,000 applications this year. Of those, 2000 received financial awards and 1762 received honorable mentions.