24 May 2011 Megan Kate Gallagher defended her Master’s Thesis in Plant Biology and Conservation at Northwestern University. Congratulations! For her thesis project, Kate demonstrated how performance of three dominant prairie grasses in restorations depended on seed source. This fall Kate will start the PhD program in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of [...]

21 September 2010. Jennifer Ison defended her dissertation on Friday and gave a public seminar to a packed house at UIC on Tuesday. Congratulations!  Her dissertation title is “Pollination of Echinacea angustifolia: effects of flowering phenology and spatial isolation.” Jennifer started with the Echinacea Project in 2003, right after graduating from St. Olaf College. She [...]