2025 Accomplishments
Plant Biology and Conservation Travel and Conference Award
- Ian Roberts
- Rory Schiafo
- Jackie Fitzgerald
- Kyla Knauf
- Teagan LeVar
- Sarah Hollis
- Maddie Sadler
- Max Jones
- Libby Schafer
- Fernando Rocha Vento
Plant Biology and Conservation MS Research Award
- Cael Dant
- Emma Fetterly
- Isaac Ferber
Plant Biology and Conservation PhD Research Award
- Kyla Knauf - Project: "From Flowers to Seeds: Understanding the Effects of Climate Change on Rocky Mountain Wildflower Phenology and Reproduction"
Brian Lovejoy
- The Garden Club of America Fellowship in Ecological Restoration - $8,000
- Project: "The Hydrological Impact of Lawn Alternatives in Urban Residential Neighborhoods"
Max Jones
- DAAD RISE professional scholarship - $5,000
- Project: "A novel vertical assessment of mammals in fragmented landscape"
- "Bambi" public talk - Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute - March 2025
- Poster presentation - Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation Conference - July 2025
Radiya Ali
- The Garden Club of America Desert Studies Grant - $4,000
- Project: "Evaluating Climate Mediated CAM-C3 Photosynthetic Plasticity in Wild, Pre-Columbian Domesticated, and Cultivated Agave species"
Rory Schiafo
Dawson-Glass, E, Schiafo, R., Miller, C. N., Kuebbing, S. E., & Stuble, K. L. Toward a comprehensive understanding of the phenological responses of non-native plants to climate warming: A review. Annals of Botany. https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcaf008
Dawson-Glass, E., Schiafo, R., Kuebbing, S. E., & Stuble, K. L. (2025). Warming-induced changes in seasonal priority effects drive shifts in community composition. Ecology, 106(1), e4504. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.4504
Rina Talaba
- Public Policy Award: A trip Washington, D.C. to talk to Congressional Representatives
Jackie Fitzgerald
- Paper published in a special issue of Journal of Animal Ecology: Intraspecific body size variation across distributional moments reveals trait filtering processes
- Presented at the Entomological Society of America Annual Meeting and won 1st place Student Competition for the President's Prize, Graduate SysEB: Morphology and Phylogenetics: "Trait scaling and foraging in bumble bees"
Maddie Sadler
- The Garden Club of America Montine M. Freeman Scholarship in Native Plant Studies - $3,000
- Project: "How prescribed fire management affects species abundance and diversity of plants in the Asteraceae in prairie remnants and restorations"
Kyla Knauf
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American Society of Naturalists Student Research Award - $2,000
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Project: "From Flowers to Fruits: Understanding the Effects of Climate Change on Rocky Mountain Wildflower Phenology and Reproduction"
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Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory Graduate Fellowship - $1,500
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Project: "Wildflower Reproductive Phenology and Seed Traits Under Early Snowmelt"
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The Institute for Applied Ecology's National Native Seed Conference Scholarship - $375
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Northwestern University support for workshop attendance at the American Association for the Advancement of Science's (AAAS) Catalyzing Advocacy in Science and Engineering (CASE) workshop - $1,000
- Presented "Are Colorado wildflowers going wild under climate change?" at the Chicago Botanic Garden (CBG) Summer Series.
- Getting Started in Research Panel - discussion with undergraduate STEM students
- Presented "The importance of seed phenology in conjunction with flowering phenology to assess climate change effects on Rocky Mountain wildflowers" at Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory (RMBL) Graduate Student Seminar Series
- Presented "Climate Change-Induced Early Snowmelt and Phenological Change" at Chicago Botanic Garden Seminar Series
- Botanical Society of America (BSA)
Vic Martinez Mercado
- Botanical Society of America (BSA) Bill Dahl Graduate Student Research Award - $1,500
- Project: "Developing an integrative pollen preservation pipeline using pawpaw as a model for plant conservation"
- Francis Kwong Award - $1,000
- Project: "Developing an integrative pollen preservation pipeline using pawpaw as a model for plant conservation"
Coral Brock
- Honorable mention from the National Science Foundation's Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF GRFP)
- Project: "C3-C4 Intermediate Photosynthesis: how Amaranthaceae species adapt to a changing climate"
Tayah Carlisle
- The Illinois Association of Environmental Professionals (IAEP) - $2,500
- Project: "Urban Roots: Phytoremediation Potential in a Chicago Savanna"
Cael Dant
- Botanical Society of America (BSA) Bill Dahl Graduate Student Research Award - $1,500
- Project: "Understanding the impact of prey type and the pitcher microbiome on physiological success of the carnivorous plant Sarracenia purpurea"
Luciana Piniely
- APST