Alumni & Development
Donor Michael Schatzlein
Louise Constable Hoover
Michael Schatzlein created the Hoover scholarship in honor of his beloved grandmother, Louise Constable Hoover (above, circa 1960).
Hoover Fellowship
Jacqueline Ho, 2011 Hoover Fellow
Jacqueline Ho is a member of Greg Demas’ laboratory. She investigates the mechanisms that regulate energy balance using Siberian hamsters (Phodopus sungorus) as her research model. Jacqueline has been an associate instructor for L111 Evolution and Diversity, L113 Introductory Biology Laboratory, P451 Integrative Human Physiology, and Z466 Endocrionology. She received the Hoover Fellowship once before, in 2009.
Deanna Soper, 2011 Hoover Fellow
Deanna Soper is a member of Curt Lively's laboratory. Her research involves the evolution of reproductive behavior in a snail species from New Zealand (Potamopyrgus antipodarum). Deanna has been an associate instructor for Q201 Biology for Elementary Education Majors, L318 Evolution, L340 Biological Bases of Sex Differences, and L465 Advanced Field Ecology. This is the second year in a row that she received the Hoover Fellowship.
Rebecca Penny, 2011 Hoover Fellow
Rebecca Penny is part of Lynda Delph’s research team. She investigates the maintenance of sterile reproductive structures in a cryptically dioecious plant, piedmont meadow-rue (Thalictrum macrostylum). Rebecca has been an associate instructor for L111 Ecology and Evolution and L113 Introductory Biology Laboratory. She will teach S318 Honors Evolution in the fall.