Student research on bats featured in local paper

EEB PhD candidate Riley Bernard was featured in the Knoxville News Sentinel for her research on white nose syndrome in bats in Tennessee. The full article is here. Riley is part of the McCracken lab.

Hunting for aliens

UTK EEB PhD student Sara Kuebbing was recently featured in the Knoxville News Sentinel for her work as part of the Tennessee Exotic Plant Pest Council. She uses an iPad app to identify and track species that are invading the US from elsewhere, typically after introduction by humans. Such species can dramatically affect functioning of ecosystems: examples in the United States include kudzu, zebra mussels, and pythons.