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St. Olaf students selected for noted ecology program

By David Gonnerman '90
July 8, 2009

Three St. Olaf biology majors, Alisha Woodson '12, Tsetan Lobsang '10 and Kathryn Staver '10, have been selected to participate in the Ecological Society of America's Strategies for Ecology Education, Development and Sustainability program that supports and encourages underrepresented undergraduate students who study ecology-related fields.

SEEDS will take Woodson and Lobsang -- part of a group of only 20 who were selected nationwide -- to spend Sept. 17-20 in the University of Virginia's remote Mountain Lake Biological Station in the Appalachian Mountains, where they will assist with a variety of research projects.

Staver is involved in a new section of SEEDS that is supported by the National Science Foundation's Research for Undergraduates program. As a research fellow, she is currently at Florida State University studying plant-herbivore interactions. She will have the opportunity to present her research at the annual national ESA meeting.

At St. Olaf, Woodson and Lobsang participate in the college's Student Support Services TRiO program and in the NSF-funded Biologists for the Future program. Lobsang also is a TRiO McNair Scholar.

Contact David Gonnerman at 507-786-3315 or gonnermd@stolaf.edu.