News
New Postdoc
I've accepted a postdoc position with Dr. Sara Brownell working to understand the barriers faculty face when providing accommodations to students with disabilities. We plan to generate solutions to support faculty across institution types!
I'm officially Dr. Pizza
I successfully defended my dissertation in April and my degree was conferred in May!
I received another teaching award!
I feel honored to have been awarded an excellence in teaching citation from the College of Natural Science!
New paper on context-dependencies in restoration
The second chapter of my dissertation is published! We found context-dependent impacts of increasing the genetic diversity and species diversity in a seed mix for restoration. Read the entire paper here.
New paper on native seed production!
Some final work from my M.S., where we show that native plants cultivated on native seed farms are more prone to selfing and have much lower levels of heterozygosity than wild-collected plants. Read the entire paper here
I earned two MSU teaching awards!
The first award is an "excellence in teaching" citation given to the top 6 graduate teaching assistants across the university, and the second is the "Fields outstanding teaching assistant" award from the department of plant biology.
Call to expand access to peer review published
Our collaborative meta-analysis group published our second project: a call to action for journal editors to open access to peer review data. You can read our paper here.
Educator of the Month
I was featured as MSU's educator of the month! Click here to check out my profile.
Peer Review Bias Reseach Published
I participated in a collaborative meta-analysis study showing that peer review produces worse outcomes for historically excluded groups in science. Click here to read the whole paper!
Where should they come from, where should they go?
The first chapter of my dissertation was published! We show that sourcing seeds more locally does not increase plant establishment or abundance of 5 commonly-used prairie species. Click here to read the whole paper!