{"id":19625,"date":"2010-04-27T10:06:13","date_gmt":"2010-04-27T17:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=19625"},"modified":"2013-07-31T11:14:51","modified_gmt":"2013-07-31T18:14:51","slug":"higher-education-pays-off-in-award-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/higher-education-pays-off-in-award-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Higher education pays off in award money"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two Northern Arizona University doctoral students have been awarded a combined $250,000 over the next three years to continue their research.<\/p>\n

Lucy Mullin<\/strong>\u00a0will receive $50,000 per year for the next three years to continue her research on seasonal water use and carbon sequestration in Southwestern ponderosa pine forests. Less than 5 percent of the 3,200 applicants received the Graduate Fellowship from the U.S. Department of Energy.<\/p>\n

The Environmental Protection Agency awarded\u00a0Robert Miranda<\/strong>\u00a0a Star Fellowship of up to $37,000 per year for three years to study how environmental pollutants affect hormone-regulated vertebrate social behaviors and related gene expression in the brain.<\/p>\n

Mullin\u2019s research examines the relative importance of winter snow and summer rain for the growth of ponderosa pine, and how reliance on the two water sources is affected by restoration thinning treatments commonly used to decrease fire risk.<\/p>\n

Mullin plans to finish her dissertation work under\u00a0George Koch<\/strong>\u00a0in the biology department and receive her graduate degree in 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Doctoral biology student winners<\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Luke Evans<\/strong><\/td>\n$15,000
\nNational Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Cindy Liu<\/strong><\/td>\n$15,000
\nP.E.O. Scholar Award<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Jennifer Ginther, Benjamin Jaffee and Lucy Mullin<\/strong><\/td>\n$7,000
\nARCS Scholar Awards<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

\u201cI work very hard, and it\u2019s nice to feel that people think I am competent and the topics I\u2019m researching are important,\u201d Mullin said. \u201cIt is such a relief to know that for the next few years I can focus on my research.\u201d<\/p>\n

Miranda studies the impact of exposure to common endocrine disrupting chemicals on social behaviors and related gene expression in the brain, examining Western clawed frogs as a model species.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn order to evaluate these impacts I use frog-calling behavior as a model system,\u201d Miranda said. \u201cBecause the mechanisms regulating social behavior are conserved in vertebrates, my work has implications for other wildlife and humans who may be exposed to pollutants in the environment.\u201d<\/p>\n

The endocrine system is a network of glands and hormones that regulates many of the body’s functions, including growth, development and maturation by releasing hormones that act as natural chemical messengers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Two Northern Arizona University doctoral students have been awarded a combined $250,000 over the next three years to continue their research. Lucy Mullin\u00a0will receive $50,000 per year for the next three years to continue her research on seasonal water use and carbon sequestration in Southwestern ponderosa pine forests. Less than 5 percent of the 3,200…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":19626,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-community"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}