Emily Runnion was awarded a multi-year, pre-doctoral fellowship for her project “Exploring the synergistic potential of fungicide exposure and parasite infection on bumble bee foraging behavior and pollination efficiency.” Congratulations, Emily!
Sivakoff recognized with Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching
I am honored to be a recipient of the 2024 Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching. Thank you to my amazing colleagues, collaborators, students, and family for helping me every step of the way. You can read more about my award here. As part of this award, I was thrilled to be invited onto the field at an OSU football game in front of 100,000 people.
Congratulations to Twy Gray!
Congratulations to OSU Marion undergraduate, Twy Gray, on winning the Andy Vick Award for Biology and Chemistry Research!
Congratulations to masters student, Anna Starkey
Congratulations to Anna Starkey on successfully defending her masters thesis!
Emily Runnion awarded a SARE Graduate Student Grant!
Congratulations to Emily Runnion on her North Central Region SARE Graduate Student Grant! With it, Emily will investigate the synergistic potential of fungicides and parasites as stressors of bumble bee health and pollination services in greenhouse tomatoes in Summer 2022. We are excited to find out what she learns!
Successful field season
With the widespread availability of vaccines and low COVID case numbers, we were lucky enough to have an almost normal field season. I’m happy to report that, as it wraps up, the field season has been very successful. Here we are at the Wilds after a long day in the field.
Anna wins big at the Denman!
Incoming Sivakoff lab masters student (and current undergraduate researcher) Anna Starkey won first prize in the Animal and Environmental Sciences category at the 25th Annual Denman Undergraduate Research Forum! Anna’s poster was also selected as one of three finalists for the Sustainability Institute Award. Great job, Anna!
Ecology on Tap
Thanks to Ecology on Tap for hosting a wonderful evening all about pollinators at Brothers Drake Meadery. See Frances’s presentation “Plant Pollinator Interactions – Mighty Mutualisms” here.
Lab project highlighted by The Wilds
In honor of Pollinator Week, The Wilds highlighted our soil quality project on their Facebook page
Karp et al. 2018 published in PNAS
Big collaborative project using > 6,000 sites sites worldwide to study the effect of non-crop habitat on farmland crop pests was published in PNAS. We even got the cover!