PhD student, Jessamine Finch, has been awarded the 2014 Sigma Xi Grant-in-Aid of Research award in the amount of $500 for her research study: "Untapped restoration potential: are city plants pre-adapted to climate change."
DiLeo, M., J. Siu, M. Rhodes, A. López-Villalobos, A. Redwine, K. Ksiazek and R. Dyer. 2014. The gravity of pollination: Integrating at-site features into spatial analysis of contemporary pollen movement. Molecular Ecology, 23(16): 3973-3982.
Fant, J.B., K. Havens, J.M. Keller, A. Radosavljevic and E.D. Yates and K. Havens (2014) The influence of contemporary and historic landscape features on the genetic structure of the sand dune endemic, Cirsium pitcheri(Asteraceae). Heredity 112, 519–530
Ksiazek, K., J. Fant and K. Skogen (2014) Native forbs produce high quality seeds on Chicago green roofs. Journal of Living Architecture 2:e2.
Ksiazek, K. and O. Starry. 2014. Growing UP in the City: A Book About Green Roofs. Illustrated by C. Ryan Patterson. www.greeningupthecity.com.
Ksiazek, K. 2014. The Potential of Green Roofs to Support Urban Biodiversity. In J. Briz, M. Köhler and I. de Felipe (Eds.), Green Cities in the World. (Chapter 6; pages 101-124). Madrid: Pronatur.
Ksiazek, K., R. Tonietto and J. Ascher. 2014. Ten bee species new to green roofs in the Chicago area. The Great Lakes Entomologist. 47:87-92.
Price, A. , J.B. Fant and D. Larkin (2014) Ecology of native vs. exotic Phragmites australis (common reed) in Chicago-area wetlands. Wetlands 34 (2) 369-377
Rhodes, M., J.B. Fant and K.A. Skogen (2014) Local topography shapes fine-scale spatial genetic structure in the Arkansas Valley evening primrose, Oenothera harringtonii (Onagraceae) Journal of Heredity 105(6):806-15
PhD student, Aleks Radosavljevic, has been awarded a Smithsonian Predoctoral Fellowship. He will be assisting in collections improvement in the Botany Department at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington DC during 2014–15, while continuing work on his research focused on the systematics, biogeography, and taxonomic revision of the legume genus Cynometra ($36,500).
MS student, Laney Widener, has been awarded a grant of $700 from the California Native Plant Society for her research: Assessing reproductive isolation and genetic divergence in coastal California Castilleja (Orobanchaceae) species complex. (2014)
PhD student, Kelly Ksiazek, has been awarded $5,849 from the Institute for Sustainability and Energy at Northwestern's Nasaw Family Fund for Environmental Research for her research "Patterns of pollen movement on urban green roofs." (2014)
