Senior Kayleigh Long has been selected for Phi Beta Kappa, America’s most prestigious academic honor society. And, after considering her outstanding set of post-grad options, she will be headed to the University of Florida’s College of Veterinary Medicine!

The Art in Bio blogs from the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology “feature artwork along with the artist’s thoughts on how their art influences biology and vice versa as well as artist’s thoughts on the role of art in academic publications.” The April installments include the words and artwork of our first-year Master’s student Rebecca Beneroff!

Devani Jolman, PhD candidate at Old Dominion University, has accepted the offer to become the next David Burpee Postdoctoral Fellow in the Martine Lab! Dev will start at Bucknell in late June 2026.

Rebecca Beneroff MS ‘27 has been announced as winner of the Best Student Poster in botany at the 2026 Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB) conference in Portland, OR. Her poster, “Conservation and taxonomic assessment of a rare Appalachian endemic,” was selected by a panel of judges from the SICB Division of Botany.

Abigail Motter ANBE ‘25 has published her first paper (part of her Senior Honors Thesis), coauthored with Doc Martine and former Burpee Postdoc Melody Sain. “A simple protocol for assessing censer seed dispersal: First confirmation of the mechanism in the genus Solanum” is part of the Applications in Plant Sciences special issue “Quantifying plant and fungal dispersal: New methods from multiple disciplines” – and an image from the study has been selected as the cover photo!