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Kalicia Bateman

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College of Life Sciences Alum Receives NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

By Kalicia Bateman
May 01, 2020
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) is designed to recognize the efforts of exceptional graduate students, allowing them to make further advances in their field of research. It is a competitive program whose past recipients include Nobel Prize winners. Fellows receive a three-year annual stipend and a cost of education allowance, covering tuition and fees to the institution where the student will be conducting research.
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Biology Master's Student Receives NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

By Kalicia Bateman
April 22, 2020
When Beka Greenall, a biological science education master’s student in the College of Life Sciences, received an email from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP), she was thrilled to read she had been chosen.
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Graduation 2020

Promoting Innovation in Climate Change Policy

By Kalicia Bateman
April 16, 2020
Honored Graduating Student: Kaleb Christensen (Bio)
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Graduation 2020

Getting Outside and Contributing to a Greater Cause

By Kalicia Bateman
April 16, 2020
Honored Graduating Student: David Hoyt (ExSci)
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Climbing Personal and Academic Mountains

By Kalicia Bateman
April 14, 2020
Statistically speaking, Biology entomolgy PhD student Gavin Martin, shouldn’t have earned a bachelor’s degree, let alone a master’s degree and a PhD. Climbing personal mountains allowed him to reach new heights in his study of fireflies.
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Plant-Bacteria Symbiosis: A Key Communication for the Global Ecosystem

By Kalicia Bateman
April 08, 2020
Microbiology & Molecular Biology PhD student Alex Benedict is focusing on an important environmental process that defines the global nitrogen and carbon cycle and determines the livelihood of global vegetation.
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Influencing Environmental Change from Iran to Utah

By Kalicia Bateman
April 08, 2020
Plant & Wildlife Sciences PhD student Sara Sayedi wanted to use science to change public policy in her home country of Iran, but the political climate offered her limited options to enter the public policy arena. After learning about the available research opportunities at BYU, she saw a new possibility to influence environmental change.
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Permafrost Collapse and the Global Ecosystem

By Kalicia Bateman
March 17, 2020
Although separated by space and time, our emissions have a great impact on ecosystems across the globe, and those systems are responding. Plant and wildlife sciences professor, Dr. Ben Abbott, has been studying these ecosystem responses and recently published research with Dr. Merritt Turetsky, director of the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR) at the University of Colorado Boulder, on permafrost collapse in arctic ecosystems.
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Trends and Treatment of Chronic Ankle Instability

By Kalicia Bateman
March 10, 2020
Perhaps it happened while playing basketball, executing a perfect arabesque, chasing the dog, or working up a sweat in an aerobics class. Everything was fine—you were going in for the winning basket of the game, you had almost caught Spot—but then you felt your ankle give way, and suddenly everything was not fine.
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