Dr. Robin Hopkins received the 2018 Fannie Cox Prize for Excellence in Science Teaching! This award is given to teachers of introductory courses who “inspire students, instill in them a passion for science, and effectively communicate complex ideas.” Congratulations Robin!
Graduate students Ben Goulet and Austin Garner, along with research technician Matt Farnitano, have been hard at work planting and collecting Phlox species in Tennessee, Kentucky, and the Midwest.
Field team poses with their gardens
Common garden experiment at Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area
Cuttings transplanted to the field
Phlox amoena (Hairy phlox) field site
Robin gets her hands dirty planting cuttings
Phlox subulata (moss phlox) found in the field by Austin
View from the field station in Livingston, Illinois.
Purple and white flowers in a population of Phlox bifida (cleft phlox).
Welcome to Bridget Bickner and Derek Schneider, who will be working in the Hopkins lab this summer as part of the Arnold Arboretum’s DaRin Butz Foundation Research Internship Program. Bridget is an undergraduate at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and Derek is an undergraduate at Amherst College. Bridget will be studying the source of flower color differences in Phlox, while Derek is working on mechanisms of Phlox self- and interspecific-incompatibility.
