Ella and Aqsa did a fantastic job presenting the work they conducted over the Summer in the lab! We're proud of you and will miss having you around! Ella, from Oberlin College, presented at Mountain Lake Biological Station where she was part of the NSF REU program. Aqsa, from Hollins College, presented her work at the Summer Research Symposium. Aqsa was supported by the SURF program through the Global Change Center. A traditional "end of the Summer program lab" picture, befor

Forde presented his work on mosquito-plant interactions during the Annual Meeting of the Phytochemical Society of North America. The conference program can be found here

Congratulations to Helen who received the prestigious Ut Prosim Fellowship!! The Ut Prosim Fellowship was created with the goal of increasing diversity and inclusion at Virginia Tech and is inspired by the Virginia Tech motto “Ut Prosim” or “That I May Serve”, a motto that exemplifies not only the need to serve but a promise to serve. Thank you to the alumnus donor for supporting URM students!! Read the press article here Picture credit: Cameron Warren for Virginia Tech.