Posted: June 10, 2021
The Apes Valentes program funds annual awards to support student-led projects in the sciences and/or arts focused on addressing aspects of pollinator health.
The Apes Valentes program funds annual awards to support student-led projects in the sciences and/or arts focused on addressing aspects of pollinator health. This years’ awards funded three graduate-level scientific research projects and three arts projects. Congratulations, to the following 2021 award recipients:
Makaylee Crone (PhD Student, Ecology, Grozinger Lab), whose project is titled “Do diverse diets impede social distancing? How foraging together may affect host-pathogen dynamics”
Stephania Sandoval Arango (PhD Student, Entomology, López-Uribe Lab) whose project is titled “Fooling the landlord: the role of semiochemicals in the invasion of squash bee nests by their cleptoparasites”
Hannah Stewart (PhD Student, Entomology, Schilder Lab) whose project is titled t, “Do pathogens affect wild bumble bee thermoregulation?”
The Apes Valentes program also funded three graduate student graphic design projects focused on increasing public awareness of pollinators. Blake Thresher, Anjana Padmakumar and Shatakshi Mehra developed projects as part of the ART571 Graphic Design II Studio class (led by Professor Huiwon Lim) in the Spring 2021 semester. More details about these projects will be provided in a future post.
The Dutch Gold Honey Scholarship is awarded to an undergraduate in the Ag Sciences to perform research in the fall semester focused on bee health. Congratulations to the 2021 recipient Alyssa Curry. Alyssa is a second year undergraduate majoring in Environmental Resource Management and minoring in Entomology. Alyssa will be working with Dr. Christina Grozinger and Dr. Gabriela Quinlan to examine the impact of Varroa infestation on the nutritional value of pollen gathered by honey bees.
