Matt Hufford and colleagues awarded NSF EPSCoR Graduate Fellowship Program (EGFP) grant

Matt Hufford, Cassling Family Professor in the Department of Ecology Evolution and Organismal Biology, along his colleagues, have been awarded an NSF EPSCoR Graduate Fellowship Program (EGFP) grant by the National Science Foundation. The program is entitled “EPSCoR Graduate Fellowship Program (EGFP): Iowa State University – Training the next Generation of Biologists to Drive Basic Discovery and Build the Bioeconomy” and will fund 10 students per year for the next three years. Students who received an NSF GRFP Honorable Mention in the last three years are eligible to apply.

The program will provide training workshops for students across ISU (not just those on Fellowships) benefiting the larger department and university community.

• PI: Matthew Hufford, Cassling Family Professor, EEOB; Director of Graduate Education for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
• Co-PI: Dean Adams, Distinguished Professor, EEOB
• Co-PI: Jeffrey Essner, Professor, GDCB
• Co-PI: Kevin Roe, Associate Professor, NREM
• Co-PI: Lisa Schulte Moore, Professor, NREM, and Co-director, Bioeconomy Institute
• Co-PI: Amy Toth, Professor, EEOB; Director of Graduate Education for Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
• Co-PI: Nicole Valenzuela, Professor, EEOB
• Co-PI: Jianming Yu, Professor and Pioneer Distinguished Chair in Plant Breeding, Agronomy; Director of Raymond F. Baker Center for Plant Breeding
• Senior Personnel: Gwyn Beattie, Robert Earle Buchanan Distinguished Professor, PPEM
• Senior Personnel: Amy Burgin, Chair and Professor, EEOB
• Senior Personnel: Amber Crowley-Gall, Assistant Professor, PPEM
• Senior Personnel: Aileen Keating, Professor, Animal Science, Director of Graduate Education for Toxicology
• Senior Personnel: Maura McGrail, Professor, GDCB
• Senior Personnel: W. Allen Miller, Professor, PPEM
• Senior Personnel: Joshua Selsby, Professor, Animal Science; Director of Graduate Education for Genetics and Genomics