Jeffrey Lackmann was awarded the prestigious National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. Well-earned, Jeffrey!
Laura was awarded a five-year National Science Foundation CAREER grant to study “Coffee fungi below and aboveground: agroecological experiments for teaching and learning about fungal diversity and ecosystem function.” This grant represents a terrific opportunity to train graduate and undergraduate students alongside Costa Rican collaborator Dr. Priscila Chaverri Echandi at the Universidad de Costa Rica in studying functional roles of fungi in agroecological systems.
Elena Prado-Ragan joined the Aldrich-Wolfe Lab in January 2021, just in time for the Organization for Tropical Biology’s graduate field course in Costa Rica. She will be working on her Master’s as part of our NSF EAGER grant to study movement of fungal spores by wind and birds between forest fragments and coffee farms in southern Costa Rica.
