David Blackburn is very pleased to announce that, after careful review by the Awards Committee (Gavin Naylor, Advait Jukar, Ed Stanley, Mandee Hall, and Hong-Shan Wang), the following proposals submitted to the NH Summer 2025 Travel Award Competition have been funded:
Graduate Students
The 2025 Summer Graduate Student Travel Awards are supported by the FLMNH Department of Natural History using funds from the Louis C. and Jane Gapenski Endowment. If you would like to help support these funds for future student awards, please go to:
Louis C. and Jane Gapenski EndowmentAkshay Anand (Advisor Rob Guralnick)
Will receive funds to attend and present research at the conference of the Association for Tropical Biology & Conservation in Oaxaca, Mexico
Steven Byrum (Advisor Gavin Naylor)
Will receive funds to conduct field research on sharks along the coast of South Carolina
Chung-Te (David) Cheng (Advisor Akito Kawahara)
Will receive funds to attend and present research at the 24th European Congress of Lepidopterology in the Czech Republic, and also conduct research in the collections of the Natural History Museum in Prague (Czech Republic) and Natural History Museum in London (UK)
Gloria Church (Advisor Neill Wallis)
Will receive funds to attend the Summer Intensive Course in Ceramic Petrography at MIT (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
María Cuervo (Advisor Pam Soltis)
Will receive funds to attend and present research at the Botany 2025 Conference in Palm Springs, California
Aleida Iriarte (Advisor David Blackburn)
Will receive funds to conduct field research on amphibians in Bolivia
Jose Esteban Jimenez Vargas (Advisor Lucas Majure)
Will receive funds to conduct botanical field research in Ecuador
Lungelo Khanyile (Advisor Nico Cellinese)
Will receive funds to conduct research at the Missouri Botanical Garden (St. Louis, Missouri)
Szu-Hsuan Lee (Advisor Gavin Naylor)
Will receive funds to attend and present research at the Evolution 2025 Conference in Athens, Georgia
Raphael Marcellino (Advisor Glaucia Del-Rio)
Will receive funds to attend and present research at the conference of the American Ornithological Society in St. Louis, Missouri
Francisco Nares (Advisor Steve Manchester)
Will receive funds to conduct field research on fossil plants in Oregon
Emeline Pano (Advisor Nico Cellinese)
Will receive funds to attend and present research at the Botany 2025 Conference in Palm Springs, California
Mitchell Walters (Advisor Scott Robinson)
Will receive funds to attend and present research at the conference of the American Ornithological Society in St. Louis, Missouri
Wenyi Zhou (Advisor Scott Robinson)
Will receive funds to attend and present research at the conference of the Association for Tropical Biology & Conservation in Oaxaca, Mexico
Undergraduate Students
The 2025 Summer Undergraduate Student Travel Awards are supported by the FLMNH Department of Natural History using funds from the Louis C. and Jane Gapenski Endowment. If you would like to help support these funds for future student awards, please go to:
Louis C. and Jane Gapenski EndowmentKaitlyn Krinsky (Advisor Steve Manchester)
Will receive funds to attend and present research at the conference of Tomography for Scientific Advancement (ToScA) North America at the American Museum of Natural History (New York, New York)
Postdocs
The 2025 Summer Postdoc Travel Awards are supported by a combination of the Special Projects Fund and department funds. If you would like to help support these funds for future Postdoc awards, please go to:
Natural Science Special Projects and AwardsMoritz Lürig (Advisor Arthur Porto)
Will receive funds to attend and present research at the Evolution 2025 Conference in Athens, Georgia
Collections Managers & Scientific Staff (CMSS)
The 2025 Summer CMSS Travel Awards are supported by a combination of the Special Projects Fund and department funds. If you would like to help support these funds for future CMSS awards, please go to:
Natural Science Special Projects and AwardsVerity Mathis (Mammalogy)
Will receive funds to attend and present research at the conference of Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections in Lawrence, Kansas
Kristin Rossetti (McGuire Center: Daniels Lab)
Will receive funds to conduct field research on butterfly conservation in North Carolina and Virginia