Huckins Receives Graduate Faculty Council Excellence Award
Assistant Professor Casey Huckins
(Biological Sciences) has received the Graduate Faculty Council Excellence
Award for including undergraduates in his research. In addition to his graduate
students, Huckins employs undergraduate students to work in all aspects
of his aquatic ecology projects. His research has included 18 undergrads,
with five more to be added this summer. Huckins has been studying the
ecology and restoration of coaster brook trout on the south shore of Lake
Superior. He is also involved in a sister project on the ecology of brook
trout in the Keweenaw Peninsula and in a coaster restoration project with
the Michigan Department of Natural Resources and the Copper Country Chapter
of Trout Unlimited. This is the first award that
the GFC Committee on Recognition and Rewards has given. It includes $1,500
to pay undergraduate students' research expenses. 5/24/02
