Graduate student Jessica Higgins published a paper with Heidi MacLean, Lauren Buckley, and Joel Kingsolver in the journal Functional Ecology. Their paper titled “Geographic differences and microevolutionary changes in thermal sensitivity of butterfly larvae in response to climate” can be found here.

Grad students Kate Augustine and Heidi MacLean presented at FEMMES (Females Excelling More in Math, Engineering, and Science) on November 16. The goal of FEMMES is to introduce 4th-6th grade girls in Chapel Hill and Carrboro to math, science, and engineering. Heidi and Kate brought the Manduca sexta caterpillars out of the lab to share with the girls as they tested thermal sensitivity of caterpillar feeding.

Undergraduate Kati Moore will be presenting her research involving acclimation and biting rate in Manduca sexta caterpillars at the South Eastern Population Ecology & Evolutionary Genetics meeting at Mountain Lake Biological Station September 27-29.

A new paper was published by Sarah Seiter and Joel Kingsolver entitled “Environmental determinants of population divergence in life-history traits for an invasive species: climate, seasonality and natural enemies.” The paper was published in the Journal of Evolutionary Biology and can be found here.

Jessica Higgins will present her poster at the Ecology Society of America meeting August 5-9 in Minneapolis, MN. Her poster is titled “Physiological adaptation to climate change in larval Colias butterflies”.

Congratulations are in order for Dr. Sarah Diamond who will be starting in January 2014 as an Assistant Professor in Biology at Case Western University.

Sarah Seiter successfully defended her PhD in December 2012! She is now working as a postdoctoral fellow at the American Museum of Natural History affiliated with City College of New York.

Grad students Kate Augustine and Heidi MacLean presented at FEMMES (Females Excelling More in Math, Engineering, and Science) on November 17. The goal of FEMMES is to introduce 4th-6th grade girls in Chapel Hill and Carrboro to math, science, and engineering.

Graduate student Jessica Higgins gave birth to her daughter Josephine Lorraine on September 12, 2012! Josephine weighed 9lbs 12oz and was 21in.

Joel was a Scholar at the Whiteley Center in Friday Harbor WA for several weeks (http://depts.washington.edu/fhl/Whiteley/index.html ), and gave a seminar at the Friday Harbor Marine Labs.