The Department of Botany at Oklahoma State University seeks to expand its PhD program. Toward this end, we can offer a $5,000 annual stipend supplement to recruit highly qualified new PhD students. The awards are not restricted to US citizens. For the 2008-9 academic year, it must be assigned by 1 March 2008 for referral and approval by the College of Arts & Sciences and the Graduate College. This supplement remains unassigned, thus prospective PhD students are encouraged to inquire with appropriate faculty members as soon as possible.=20
=20 OSU Botany faculty research interests are very broad - please visit http://botany.okstate.edu/ for more information. The four faculty with ecologically-related interests are Michael Palmer, Bill Henley, Janette Steets, and Andrew Doust. =20 Mike has diverse interests including plant virus ecology, vegetation dynamics, sustainable biofuels, and biogeography. He is eager to recruit students in any of these fields. See http://ecology.okstate.edu/Libra/ for information about the Palmer lab. =20 Bill is eager to recruit new PhD students to work on projects involving algal physiology and ecology, particularly halophilic chlorophytes, diatoms and cyanobacteria. See www.okstate.edu/artsci/SPMO for a current funded project. =20 Janette is interested in recruiting students to work on projects in plant evolutionary ecology. Areas of particular interest include mating system evolution, plant-herbivore and plant-pollinator interactions, and plant ecophysiology. =20 Andrew has interests in plant evolution, development and genetics, and is eager to recruit students that wish to integrate these approaches to understand the evolution of morphological diversity. Current projects include the evolution of plant architecture in grasses, evolution and ecology of the shade response in grasses, and fruit evolution in mustards. =20 Note that OSU has a broader community of plant ecologists outside of the department of Botany, including faculty in Natural Resources Ecology and Management, Zoology, and Plant Pathology. Visit http://ecology.okstate.edu <http://ecology.okstate.edu/> for more details. =20 Contact information: Michael Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] 405-744-7717 William Henley [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 405-744-5559 Janette Steets [EMAIL PROTECTED] 405-744-3521 Andrew Doust [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 405-744-9559 =20 =20 Michael W. Palmer, Botany Department, Oklahoma State University 104 LSE Stillwater OK 74078 USA 405-744-7717=20 LABORATORY FOR INNOVATIVE BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH AND ANALYSIS: http://ecology.okstate.edu/Libra/ <http://ecology.okstate.edu/Libra/> =20 LIHD Biofuels Blog: http://testone.okstate.edu/debo/blogs/ OSU Botany: http://botany.okstate.edu/ <http://botany.okstate.edu/> OSU Ecology: http://ecology.okstate.edu <http://ecology.okstate.edu/> =20 =20
