PROGRAM IN PLANT BIOLOGY AND CONSERVATION

Rebecca Tonietto, a third year PhD student has been awarded a Presidential Fellowship from Northwestern University's Graduate School for her research on determining the effects of tall grass prairie restoration on native bee communities. Her research supervisor is Dr. Dan Larkin. The fellowships are awarded to a very limited number of graduate students each year.

Rosemary Bush (MS, 2010) was awarded an EPA STAR three year graduate fellowship for a proposal that was based heavily on her PBS MS thesis. Ms. Bush also recently received a research grant from The Paleontological Society for her continuing research into plant n-alkanes and their relationship to a plant's environment.

Ksiazek, K. , J. B. Fant and K. Skogen.  (2012) An assessment of pollen limitation on Chicago green roofs. Landscape and Urban Planning. 107 (4) 401-408

Saari.  C. and Glisson, W. J.,(2012)  Survey of Chicago Region Restoration Seed Source Policies. Ecological Restoration 30(3):162-165

Paul Hartzog has been awarded a grant in the amount of $3,000 from the Initiative for Sustainability and Energy at Northwestern (ISEN). His research for this award is "Developing Isotopic Tools to Investigate Nitrogen Removal in Wetlands."