Adriana awarded 2019 NSF Predoctoral Fellowship (GRFP)

Image may contain: 2 people, including Adriana Hernandez, people smiling, outdoor and closeupAdriana Hernandez, 2nd year graduate student in Plant Biology and member of the Specht Lab, was awarded a 2019 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.  This will fund her stipend as she carries out her research on speciation, evolution and diversification in Calochortus with a focus on the enigmatic and highly polymorphic C. venustus.

Adriana is pictured here with Dr. Victoria Sork, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Dean of Life Sciences at UCLA, and fellow California botanist.

Congratulations, Adriana!!!