Announcements

NSF awards UGA a $2.5 million PIRE grant to study invasive species in the U.S. and China

UGA has been awarded a grant to establish a novel interdisciplinary research and education program with China under the Partnerships for International Research and Education program (see the press release). Rodney Mauricio, who serves as the Program Director with co-PI's Karin Myhre, Jim Hamrick, Shumei Chang and Ron Walcott, will study invasive species exchanged between the U.S. and China.

New Hires!

In the past few years, the University of Georgia has hired a number of new evolutionary biologists! John Burke, a plant evolutionary biologist relocated from Vanderbilt, to join the Department of Plant Biology. David Hall, a theoretical population geneticist from Mark Kirkpatrick's lab at UT, Austin, is in the Department of Genetics. Jim Leebens-Mack, a plant systematist fom Penn State, has signed on with the Department of Plant Biology. Kelly Dyer joined the Department of Genetics after completing her PhD with John Jaenike at Rochester and working with Brian Charlesworth.