January 2015
COAST udergraduate research support grant awarded:
Robert Loyd
Hydrophone for studying plankton prdator-prey interaction
November 2014
Fresno State Faculty Sponsored Research Awards:
Nolan AveryCharacterizing the internal microbiome of bladderwort
Rayhan Kabir
Prey selectivity in bladderwort
August 2014
National Science Foundation
grant awarded:
Suction feeding in small organisms:
outpacing the minimum-size limit
July 2014
7th World Congress of Biomechanics, Boston:
Ulrike Müller: session organizer and chair, Swimming in Nature
April 2013
Nalong Mekdara
Graduate Dean's Medalist,
Fresno State College of Science and
Mathematics
Outstanding Graduate Student, Fresno State Department of Biology
University Graduate Medalist Nominee, Fresno State
May 2012
2012-2013 Fresno State Undergraduate Research Grant:
Adrienne OlaivarMathematical Model of Suction Feeding in the Carnivourous Plant Bladderwort
January 2012
Central California Research Symposium Awards:
Matthew Brown
Prey Capture in Bladderwort,
the Fastest Known Suction Feeder
Outstanding Graduate Oral Presentation
awarded by the California State University, Fresno, Office of Research
and Sponsored Programs
Darius Khorshidchehr
Three-dimensional Escape Trajectories
in Larval Fish
Honorable Mention Poster Presentation
May 2011
Songita Choudhury: President's Medalist
Ulrike Müller:
2012-2011 Provost's Award for Promising New Faculty
2008
National Science Foundation
Major Research Instrumentation Grant awarded,
construction of
facility begins.
Grant Number DBI-0821820
