Tori Coutts, a PhD student in the lab, is receiving a very prestigious graduate research fellowship from the National Science Foundation. She is very excited to continue her work on nutritional stress in zebra finches. Big big congratulations to her!!!

Wonil and Madeline joined the lab as an undergraduate researcher over a year ago and now they continue their pursuit for M.S. degree in the Wada lab. Welcome Wonil and Madeline!!

"Damage-Fitness Model: The missing piece in integrative stress models" is now published online in the Stress journal. It was fast developing the original model, then took many many revisions to the current form. Huge thanks to everyone who gave me valuable feedback. Ch...

Madeline Choi was awarded the Joseph Kirby Farrington Endowed Fund for Excellence from our department today. Big congratulations to Madeline!

Today, I received the Outstanding Graduate Mentor Award. This is THE best award I ever received!! It is particularly special to me because this award is by the students. I am happy and humbled!

Madeline Choi received the Dean's Metal at the COSAM Honors Convocation today! Much deserved! Congratulations!

Alex Rubin nailed his presentation and master's thesis defense earlier this month. As all the committee member agreed, he exceeded the expectation by a lot! He'll have a bright bright future ahead of him!

Shelby Still successfully defended her Master's in March. I couldn't be more proud for her to accomplish this! It was also a pleasure to have her back home:)

I am going to catch up on updates of the lab! In January, 6 of us presented our work at the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology meeting in Tampa, FL. Britt Heidinger and I organized the symposium on linking stress responses at various levels of biological o...

Tori Coutts joined our lab as a new PhD student this fall. Welcome Tori!!