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Congratulations to Kimberly Ballare, the recipient of the Ann Miller Gonzalez Graduate Research Grant for 2015.
Ms. Ballare is a third year PhD student at the University of Texas, Austin, with a concentration in ecology, evolution and behavior. Her undergraduate degree is from the University of Colorado and she has a Master’s from the University of East Anglia in Norwich, UK.
Her research at UT focuses on how urbanization affects the interactions of native bees and native plants. Certain species of plants depend on certain species of native bees for pollination; however, little is known about how urbanized landscapes that include non-native species will impact the plant-bee interactions or the survival of the bees or plants. This research should produce interesting and important results.
Kimberly has been active in native plant circles, speaking at various professional conferences and on radio programs, judging at regional science fairs, acting as a teaching assistant at UT, and mentoring undergraduates doing native plant research. In August she expects to speak to the Ecological Society of America on “Urban landscape ecology of native plant and bee communities in Austin and Dallas.”
The Ann Miller Gonzalez Research Grants are named in memory of a former president of the Society.
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