The items below were originally announced at the department's Spring Reception, May 4 2006.

Staff Achievements and Awards

• Brian Walters (10 years), Chuck Stutsman and Betty McGlocklin (25 years), Kathy Wyss (30 years), and Joel McCoy and John Lemon (35 years) received awards for long and dedicated service to the department.
• The IU Biology Greenhouse received the 2006 Business Recognition Award from Stone Belt Employment Services for outstanding contributions to promoting employment opportunities for persons of disabilities.
• Anna Bednarski received the 2006 College of Arts and Sciences Advisor of the Year Award.
• Amber Cravens received the 2006 Department of Biology Outstanding Professional Staff Award.
• Jeremy Hooten, Alice Eads and Jeremy Bennett received the 2006 Department of Biology Outstanding Staff Awards.
• Betty McGlocklin, Bill Niswander, Rossanne Walden, Jeremy Niemann, Cathy Todd, Mary Ann Miller, and Anna Bednarski were also commended for service "above and beyond" during 2006.

Teaching Achievements and Awards

• Connie Thornsberry and Anna Zinovyeva received the 2006 Outstanding Biology Assistant Instructor (AI) awards.
• Clara Cotton was awarded the 2006 Senior Class Award for teaching excellence and dedication to undergraduates.
• Rich Hardy, David Kehoe, and Mike Tansey all received 2006 Trustee Teaching Awards.

Graduate Student and Postdoc Achievements and Awards

• Andy Burnham received the 2006 Taylor fellowship, Cameron Turner received the 2006 Hudock Fellowship, and Jeff Stumpf received the 2006 Konetzka fellowship.
• Laura Ong and Melanie Lawler were both awarded the deparment's 2006 Floyd Award for Outstanding Microbiology Publication.
• Laura for: Ong LE, Innes, RW. 2006. AvrB mutants lose both virulence and avirulence activities on soybean and Arabidopsis. Mol. Microbiol. 60:951-962
• Melanie for: Lawler ML, Larson DE, Hinz AJ, Klein D, Brun YV. 2006. Dissection of functional domains of the polar localization factor PodJ in Caulobacter crescentus. Mol Microbiol. 59:301-16.
• Yaniv Brandvain has received an NSF Pre-Doctoral Fellowship.
• Ben Blackman, Tom G. Platt, and Sarah Schaack all received a prestigious NSF doctoral dissertation improvement grant (DDIG).
• Saul Nava won an NIH predoctoral fellowship.
• Dai Horichi and Rania Risk have both received American Heart Association Fellowships.
• Hanna Kolodziejski received the College’s Dissertation Year Fellowship, as well as the Bernice Eastwood Covalt Memorial Scholarship and the James H. Coon Sciences Prize.
• Jennifer Koslow and Briana Gross have been awarded Floyd Plant Sciences Final Year Fellowships.  Briana was also selected (along with faculty member Matt Hahn) as one of the speakers at the Young Scientist Symposium at the University of Michigan.
• Joel McGlothlin, Melissa Ann Scotti, Cuau Vital, and Devin Zysling received awards and were named as CISAB Scholars for outstanding animal behavior research.
• Devin also received a Research Award from the Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology and a Travel Award from Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology.
• Joel McGlothlin also received the Wilson Ornithological Society Louis Agassiz Fuertes Award.
• Joel McGlothlin,  Nicki Gerlach, Dawn O'Neal, and Sara Schrock all received Mountain Lake Biological Station research grants.
• Brett Mattingly, Lauren Young and Mary Damm  received Graduate Research Fellowships, from The Land Institute. Mary also received a Prairie Biotic Research Grant.
• Luke Flory received aresearch grant from US Forest Service.
• Anna Larimer received an OTS research grant, and admission to an OTS field course in tropical ecology.
• Jonathan Atwell received research awards from the IU Graduate and Professional Student Organization, the Exploration Fund of the Explorer's Club, and Sigma Xi.
• Timothy Greives received an Indiana Academy of Science Grant-in-Aid of research.
• Lauren Young, was one of two 2006 recipients of the Ecological Society of America Graduate Student Policy Award. She went to Capitol Hill in March to learn first hand about federal funding and its impact on the sciences.
• Daniel Ortiz-Barrientos was selected to deliver the Larry Sandler Memorial Lecture at the Drosophila meetings.
• Jodie Jawor, Britt Heidinger received NSF/ESF/NSERC RCN network international travel awards.
• Idelle Cooper and Dawn O’Neal received COAS travel awards to present work at national meetings.
• Amelia Tomlinson - 2006 L.S. McClung Award for Outstanding Graduate Student Preseentation at the Indiana Branch American Society for Microbiology Meeting (Second Conecutive Year).
• Tim Linksvayer received the Eickwort Award from the International Society for the Study of Social Insects.

Faculty Achievements, Awards, News, etc.

• Ellen Ketterson was awarded the rank of Distinguished professor this spring.
• Research faculty members Jim Powers , Kris Klueg , Barry Stein and Laurel Bender were promoted to Assistant Scientist, and John Colbourne was promoted to Associate Scientist.
• Emilia Martins has accepted a position as Associate Dean of the College.
• Roger Hangarter with his collaborator video artist Dennis DeHArt - SlowLife exhibit at the National Botanic Garden October-March and will open at the Chicago Botanic garden in 2007
• Roger Hangarter with documentarian Samuel Orr received top award in Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge from National Science Foundation and Science magazine for their short film about Brood X periodical cicadas
• Keith Clay and Jeff Palmer, who have just been elected as Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.  --They  join past elected fellows in the department, including Mark Estelle, Howard Gest, Curt Lively, Mike Lynch, and Loren Reiseberg
• Jeff Palmer and Jerry Gastony, will receive Centennial Medallion Awards at the centennial meeting of the Botanical Society of America in Chico, California on August 2, 2006.        
• Laura Hurley received the Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award from the Oak Ridge Associated Universities.
• Butch Brodie and Loren Rieseberg are both moving on to more mountainous locales, and Jerry Gastony is retiring. All will be fondly missed.