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05|23|13 - Biology Undergrads Receive Prestigious Fellowships for Summer Research -

How do young college-age scientists spend their summer? They do research, of course. And two University of Kentucky undergraduate students have received prestigious American Physiological Society (APS) Undergraduate Summer Research Fellowships to conduct their work this summer.

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05|21|13 - Oswald Named SEC Track and Field Scholar-Athlete of Year -

The University of Kentucky's Chelsea Oswald, biology graduate, has added to her already impressive collection of awards both on and off the track, as she has been named Southeastern Conference Track and Field Women’s Scholar-Athlete of the Year.

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05|14|13 - Conference to Address STEM Opportunities for Girls -

The Kentucky Girls STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) Collaborative, in partnership with the STEM-H Institute at Eastern Kentucky University, will hold its fifth annual conference "Reaching for the Stars!" Friday, June 7, at the Eastern Kentucky University campus.

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05|03|13 - Six UK Students Awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowships -

Five University of Kentucky students and one recent graduate have been selected to receive government-funded National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowships. The fellowships will present the students with more than $100,000 to use toward research-based master's or doctoral degrees.

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04|30|13 - Kentucky NSF EPSCoR Success Stories Featured in Video Series -

Schyler Nunziata is a first-year Ph.D. student in biology at the University of Kentucky, and she’s the first success story highlighted in a new video series.

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Recent Publications (PubMed)

O'Neill, E.M.;Schwartz, R.;Bullock, C.T.;Williams, J.S.;Shaffer, H.B.;Aguilar-Miguel, X.;Parra-Olea, G.;Weisrock, D.W. "Parallel tagged amplicon sequencing reveals major lineages and phylogenetic structure in the North American tiger salamander (Ambystoma tigrinum) species complex." Molecular ecology 22, 1 (2013): 111-29. Details. Full text.
Williams, J.S.;Niedzwiecki, J.H.;Weisrock, D.W. "Species tree reconstruction of a poorly resolved clade of salamanders (Ambystomatidae) using multiple nuclear loci." Molecular phylogenetics and evolution (2013): Details. Full text.
Jones, G.;Teal, P.;Henrich, V.C.;Krzywonos, A.;Sapa, A.;Wozniak, M.;Smolka, J.;Jones, D. "Ligand binding pocket function of Drosophila USP is necessary for metamorphosis." General and comparative endocrinology 182, (2013): 73-82. Details. Full text.
Gama-Arachchige, N.S.;Baskin, J.M.;Geneve, R.L.;Baskin, C.C. "Quantitative analysis of the thermal requirements for stepwise physical dormancy-break in seeds of the winter annual Geranium carolinianum (Geraniaceae)." Annals of botany 111, 5 (2013): 849-58. Details. Full text.
Gama-Arachchige, N.S.;Baskin, J.M.;Geneve, R.L.;Baskin, C.C. "Identification and characterization of ten new water gaps in seeds and fruits with physical dormancy and classification of water-gap complexes." Annals of botany (2013): Details. Full text.
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