Heather Chamberlain-Irwin, Ph.D. student in the interdisciplinary Ecology and Evolutionary Biology program and co-advised by anthropologist Dr. Andrew Somerville (Department of World Languages and Cultures) and maize geneticist Dr. Matthew Hufford (Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology), is the recipient of two prestigious dissertation funding awards in the amount of $63,000.
The Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research (FFAR) Fellows Program selected two Iowa State graduate students for its 2023 cohort. Oluwatuyi Olowoyeye, doctoral student in Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, and Erika Ibarra-Garibay, doctoral student in Ecology, Evolution and Organismal Biology, are the first students from Iowa State to be selected for this fellowship.
Kate Borchardt, a third-year Ph.D. candidate in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, is a finalist in this year's final Three Minute Thesis (3MT) for the second year in a row. Learn more about Kate and her 3MT presentation, "ISU Prairie Strip Honey: Status and Future," below.
