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Educational Achievements

Our recent educational achievements include:

  • A new, $2.4 million dollar NSF GK-12 grant that places eight advanced graduate students into local high schools to build an Environmental Science Leaning Community at the land-lake ecosystem

  • Many of our graduate students have been awarded prestigious scholarships from the International Association for Great Lakes Research (IAGLR) during the past 4 years

  • One of our current undergraduate research students was awarded both an NSF research award and an environmental scholarship from the Ohio Academy of Sciences through the Ohio EPA.

  • The LEC National Science Foundation planning grant was awarded a Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) supplement award to sponsor Timothy Bollin of the Toledo Early College High School (TECHS) of the Toledo Public Schools for “Population genetic diversity and divergence patterns of the rainbow darter fish in the Lake Erie watershed”.

     

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