Achievement

Two trainees have been awarded fellowships during their tenure in the IGERT program. Trainee Tammi Johnson is conducting her dissertation research (a multi-scale approach to understanding the ecology of tick-borne relapsing fever) with the support of an NIH NIAID Predoctoral Intramural Research Training Award. Johnson is being co-mentored by a researcher at NIH’s Rocky Mountain Laboratories in Hamilton, MT. Trainee Michael Ceballos received a Ford Foundation Dissertation Award. The Ford Foundation seeks to "increase the diversity of the nation’s college and university faculties by increasing their ethnic and racial diversity, to maximize the educational benefits of diversity, and to increase the number of professors who can and will use diversity as a resource for enriching the education of all students." A third trainee, Marty Kardos, has been recommended for funding for an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship; final notification is likely after the submission deadline for this report.