Did you know New Hampshire has no native earthworms? After glaciers receded from this part of the country at the beginning of the Holocene, the land was scoured and effectively soil-free. This habitat was unwelcoming to soil-dwelling earthworms, which cannot migrate far without human intervention.
[more]The University of Washington hosts short courses on a range of subjects each year through its Summer Institutes program. The course I attended, "Mixed Models for Quantitative Genetics," is part of the Summer Institute for Statistics and Genetics. The course was two and a half days long and covered a staggering amount of material in that time. The course was taught by Bruce Walsh (University of Arizona), one of the authors of a classic textbook on quantitative genetics, and Guilherme Rosa (University of Wisconsin), who specializes in the biostatistics behind plant and animal breeding.
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[more]Michael Butler Brown, Deb Goedert, and Grant Gutierrez honored as outstanding graduate TAs by the Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning. Link. Deb Goedert received an honorable mention for the Society for the Study of Evolution's Hamilton Award. Link.
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