MAINE INBRE

Clare Bates Congdon, PhD, was recently awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER grant. According to NSF, the CAREER program is “the most prestigious award in support of the early career-development activities of those teacher-scholars who most effectively integrate research and education within the context of the mission of their organization.” The research focus of…

This year’s summer students at the MDI Biological Laboratory selected Dr. Robert Preston as the 2010 Outstanding Summer Mentor. Preston, Professor of Physiology, Comparative and Integrative Physiology at Illinois State University, has been a Visiting Scientist at the MDI Biological Laboratory for over 25 years. In that time he has mentored more than 90 summer…