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Graduate Students

Name	Program	Topic
Steven Hastings	PhD. program	Aphid lady beetle coevolution.
Cali Roth	MSc. program	Are areas with variable microclimates refuges for Mormon cricket populations in years of low density?
Lara Trozzo	MSc. program	Diet effects on the upper limit on sexual selection.

Undergraduate Students

Name	Project	Topic
George Rosekelly	Honors student and Part-time technician	Evolution of recombination rates and mei-P22 expression in Drosophila ananassae
Chad Long	Individual investigation	Developing smartphone applications at Holden Arboretum
Nathan Hamlet	Citizen Science volunteer	Developing smartphone applications at Holden Arboretum
Veronica Rigatti	Current Mormon Cricket volunteer	Extracting DNA and sequencing genes for phylogenetic analysis of several species of katydids related to Mormon crickets

Past Students

Graduate Students

Name	Degree	Topic	Current/Last known position
Justin Reeves	PhD.	Efficacy of watermilfoil weevils for control of invasive Eurasian watermilfoil.	Undergraduate Academic and Career Advisors
Stacy Neal	MSc.	Morphological integration and morphometrics of band forming and non-band forming Mormon crickets

Undergraduate Students

Name	Project	Topic	Current/Last known position
Nathan Stopczynski	Independent Investigation and Part-time technician	Evolution of recombination rates and mei-P22 expression in Drosophila ananassae	Graduate student at Case Western University Medical School Case Medical School
Amber Walden	Mormon Cricket morphometrics volunteer	Measuring external characters on several species of katydids related to Mormon crickets	Greater Cleveland Aquarium Cleveland Aquarium
Allison Geraci	Current Mormon Cricket volunteer	Extracting Mormon cricket movement data from videos
Mahtab Tehrani	Part-time technician and Honors student	Evolution of recombination rates and mei-P22 expression in Drosophila ananassae	Graduate student at Kent State University Biology Biological Sciences
Jacqueline Dillard	Independent Investigation student	Are Cidada exuviae used as a shelter from predators by earwigs?	PhD. student in Biology at University of Kentucky, Westneat lab
Allison Courtney	Independent Investigation student	Mormon cricket movement Independent Investigation	Kent State University graduate
Jurdene Ingram	NSF UMEB program trainee	Watermilfoil weevil Independent Investigation	MSc. student at Kansas State University, in Marriage and Family Therapy
Dan King	Independent Investigation student	Mormon cricket movement Independent Investigation	Project Manager/Risk Assessor, BJAAM Environmental, Inc., Canal Fulton, Ohio
Allison Toth	Independent Investigation student	Mormon cricket movement Independent Investigation	Educational Interpreter, Cleveland Metroparks Zoo