Check out Kris' investigation of the functional significance of the anther dimorphism exhibited by Clarkia unguiculata, in which she experimentally tested for a long-predicted difference in pollen performance between the vestigial short stamens and the relatively robust long stamens produced by this (and many other) species of Clarkia.

Six undergraduates in the Mazer lab received prestigious awards from UCSB's Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities program to support their independent research during the 2018-2019 academic year.  The titles of their projects are:

Ivana Gomez: The effects of long-term vs. recent climatic conditions on the timing of flowering in Nemophila menziesii using electronic records and physical herbarium specimens

Kristen Peach was awarded joint grants from UCSB's Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology and from Giga Science to attend a summer 2018 workshop in Front Royal, Virginia.  The 10-day workshop (August 19-30), "Recent Advances in Conservation Genetics", will cover methods, interpretation, and applications of molecular genetic analyses for the conservation of endangered species.  Congratulations, Kris!

Jasen Liu, a fourth-year undergraduate Biologist in the College of Creative Studies (CCS), has been selected as a 2018 Goldwater Scholar. The Goldwater Scholarship Program, one of the oldest and most prominent national scholarships in the natural sciences, engineering, and mathematics, recognizes students in their second or third year who have the potential to become leaders in research within their field.  He has been working in my lab since his freshman year, and is a co-author on a paper recently published in Evolution (Mazer et al., 2018). Read more about Jasen at:  https://www.ccs.ucsb.edu/news/2018/jasen-liu-third-year-ccs-biologist-named-goldwater-scholar