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By Amro, April 17, 2013

Very happy to announce that Nadia Tsvetkov was  awarded an Ontario Graduate Scholarship for 2013.  Congrats Nadia!

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By Amro, January 28, 2013

Congratulation to Brock Harpur for winning the Canadian Association of Professional Apiculturists’ student merit award for 2013! The award recognizes outstanding achievement in the study of apiculture. More on the award here.  Also see this news post from the Ontario Beekeepers’ Association
Congrats Brock – well deserved!

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By Amro, August 20, 2012

Congrats to Brock for successfully defending his masters’ thesis today. Brock’s thesis was awarded with distinction (top 5%) and contained one published paper and one manuscript that is about to be submitted. Brock was very productive; he completed one published side project and several other experiments that will be written up this fall/winter.

All you bee fans out there – don’t despair! Brock is continuing his research in the lab as a PhD candidate this September.

Congrats Brock!

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By Amro, May 3, 2012

Brock at the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility at UC Davis, April 2012

Congrats to Brock Harpur for wining the ultra-competitive Elia Scholarship from York University.  The Elia Scholars Program is York University’s most prestigious graduate award, and Brock will use it to carry out his Doctoral research on honey bee immunity here in the lab.  Great job Brock!

Amro

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By Amro, February 2, 2012

Happy to announce that Jack Xu, who spent last summer working in the lab as a NSERC undergraduate student, just received the coveted TOP STUDENT honours for the Faculty of Science and Engineering.  Jack scored an incredible GPA 8.93 (out of 9)!  Check out the YorkU Magazine story, and the video interview.  Congrats Jack!

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By Amro, November 8, 2011

Congrats to Brock Harpur who won the 2011 Entomological Society of Canada’s President Prize in Biodiversity & Physiology! The award is given to the top graduate student presentation in the Biodiversity and Physiology section at the Entomological Society of Canada’s annual meeting held at Halifax.  Brock’s talk was titled “Diversity and Selection on the Honey Bee Immune System”.  Brock held a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada’s Julie Payette Scholarship in 2010, and currently holds an Ontario Graduate Scholarship.  Way to go Brock… We are all very proud!

Amro

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By Amro, September 28, 2011

I am very happy to announce that Clement Kent, a postdoctoral fellow in the lab, won the North American Pollinators Protection Campaign‘s 2011 Pollinator Advocate Award for Canada.  I can’t think of a more deserving individual; By day, Clement solves the mysteries of the honey bee’s genome, and by night (and on weekends), he works to develop pollinator gardens to help save the bees, the butterflies, and the birds!  Check out the press release and video interview and Clement’s pollinator garden blog.  Clement will also be on CBC Radio’s Here and Now later this afternoon (3:30-4:30 pm EST) [click here to hear it!].  Way to go Clement!

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By Amro, May 24, 2011

Very happy to announce that Brock Harpur was recently awarded an Ontario Graduate Scholarship.  Brock joined the lab as a graduate student last fall on a Julie Payette Scholarship.  Congrats Brock!

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By Amro, March 7, 2011

Congrats to Alexandra Bunting and Jack Xu for wining the ultra-competitive Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada’s Undergraduate Student Research Award.  The awards will allow Alex and Jack to participate in full-time research in the lab during the summer 🙂  This is the second competitive award to Alexandra who has been working in the lab since last year.  Way to go guys!

Amro

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By Amro, October 15, 2010

Congrats to Alexandra Bunting (RAY student in the lab) for earning a York Technology Alliance Award.