Accolades

Dr. Darnell Kaigler, adjunct clinical lecturer in dentistry and research fellow, periodontics and oral medicine, School of Dentistry, is the only dentist in the nation and one of 20 to receive a Career Award for Medical Scientists from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund. Kaigler will receive $700,000 during the next five years, to help him make the transition from postdoctoral researcher to junior faculty member.

Paul Berry, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, curator and director of the Herbarium and associate director, Museum of Zoology, LSA, assembled a sizeable group of collaborators and was the catalyst for a proposal that resulted in a $2.6 million National Science Foundation grant award over the next five years to study the large genus Euphorbia. Working with a worldwide consortium of researchers and partnering closely with the Peabody Museum of Yale University, the team will be looking for new species and evaluating the phylogenetic relationships and conservation status of the known species. Data generated by the project should provide the baseline information for the proper recognition and conservation management of rare Euphorbia species worldwide.

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