Mila Plavsic, University of Vermont

Class Year:

1995

Mentor:

Donald Meritt, Ph.D.

Location:

Horn Point Laboratory

Project Title:

An investigation of the onset of the protozoan parasite Perkinsus marinus in the eastern oyster Crassostrea virginica

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Congratulations to 2015 REU Alison Aceves for being selected as an honorable mention in the 2015 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program competition.

Congratulations to 2015 REU Hope Ianiri on receiving the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (2016)!

Stella Castro and Adrian Plummer won a student presentation awards for their poster and talk, respectively, at the 2015 ASLO Aquatic Sciences Meeting. Their REU mentors were Cindy Palinkas and Louis Plough.

Congratulations to former REUs Cristina Villalobos and Jenessa Duncombe on their 2015 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship awards!

Congratulations to Gabriel Ng (2012) on his NSF Graduate Research Fellowship award and Chrissie Schalkoff (2013) on her Fulbright Scholarship!

In February 2016, seven REUs from the 2015 cohort presented their research findings at the Ocean Sciences Meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana.

MEES Ph.D. student Jeanette Davis (REU '06) was selected as a Sea Grant Knauss Fellow for 2015.

Robert Sabo (REU 2010) received a summer fellowship through the Maryland Water Resources Research Center and a two-year EPA STAR fellowship to work on water quality in Chesapeake Bay watersheds.

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