SPRING 2003

STUDENT NEWS
compiled by Laurie Anderson

The garden of Kelley and MLA student Dexter Adams was featured the July 2002 issue of Southern Living (pages 79-81). Kelley, Dexter and their two sons, Sam and Tyler, live in Monroe, Georgia.

The teacher naturalists team at Riveredge Nature Center near Newburg, Wisconsin, which includes ecology doctoral student Huda Alkaff, was awarded an Education Team Excellence award by the Volunteer Center of Greater Milwaukee, Wisconsin. They were also awarded the Outstanding Volunteer In Education/Environment, given by the Volunteer Center of Washington County, Wisconsin. Way to go, Huda!

BLA student Daron Joffe was one of eight "social entrepreneurs" selected out of 130 candidates in December 2002 to receive a two-year Joshua Venture fellowship, it was reported in both The Atlanta Jewish Times and the New York Jewish weekly Forward. With the $60,000 award, Joffe will establish Gan Chaim — "Garden of Life" — Jewish gardening and environmental awareness programs at a farm in Athens, Georgia owned by ecology professor Carl Jordan. Joffe, aka “Farmer D”, is the only Venture fellow from the Southeast.

Erin Lindquist, ecology PhD candidate, was elected to Who's Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges. She was nominated by the UGA Graduate School for her outstanding achievements during her graduate studies.

(l-r) Dr. Betsy Reitz congratulates Arlena Wartell.

The 2002 Joshua Laerm Academic Support Award for Graduate Students went to Arlena M. Wartell, it was announced in November. With help from the award, she will conduct fine-scale genetic analysis of the federally endangered Carolina northern flying squirrel Glaucomys sabrinus coloratus. Her research will provide information on the genetic structure, diversity and gene flow of these populations needed to test hypotheses about Pleistocene biogeography, fragmented population sturecture, and the effects of landscape factors on genetic connectivity. The results of her research will enable management strategies to incorporate gene flow patterns for this species.

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