A lot of news has happened in the past month and I have been negligent about updating. All lab members have had awards, scholarships, and bursary announcements that warrant celebration!

• Melane Denommé Stauder (PhD student) will be receiving the Jack Miller Graduate Award for the Faculty of Mathematics and Sciences this coming year. Stay tuned for a future announcement as I’m not sure this is public knowledge yet.

• Harry Kumbhani received the Ontario Paper Thorold Foundation Graduate Award, in recognition of academic standing and that his eco-physiological research is aligned with environmental research.

• Harry Kumbhani also was lead author on a paper published in Canadian Journal of Zoology that was highlighted as Editor’s choice.

• Danilo Giacometti’s (recent PhD graduate) Journal of Experimental Biology paper from 2025 was a finalist for the JEB Outstanding Paper Prize. Link still to come.

• Sophie Gauthier (Biological Sciences Honours Thesis Student in my lab) was awarded the Niagara Birds Bursary for her work in an ecologically relevant project (awarded to a Biological Sciences student engaged in a research project in ecology or related discipline.

Congratulations to all and a huge thanks to those who have supported student and ECR success through the funding of these scholarships and establishment of these recognitions.