Ph.D., University
of Wisconsin - Madison, 1996
Major: Zoology
Minor: Oceanography and Limnology
Dissertation: "Phytoplankton
responses to experimental manipulations of nutrients and food webs"
Advisor: Dr. Stephen R. Carpenter
M.S., University of Wisconsin - Madison, 1993
Major: Zoology
Thesis: "Effects of food web structure on the resilience and resistance of
lake phosphorus cycles"
Advisor: Dr.
Stephen R. Carpenter
B.A., Drew University, 1990
Majors: Biology, Mathematics
Honors: graduated summa cum laude; Phi Beta Kappa; Beta Beta
Beta
Awards: CIBA-GEIGY Award in Mathematics, GTE At-Large Academic All-American of
the Year (1990)
Professor, Department of
Biological Sciences, Dartmouth College,
1 July 2011-present
Associate Professor, Department of
Biological Sciences, Dartmouth College,
1 July 2003-30 June 2011
Assistant Professor, Department of
Biological Sciences, Dartmouth College,
1 July 1998-30 June 2003
Postdoctoral Research Associate, National
Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, 1 September 1996 - 30 June
1998
Douglas C. Floren Faculty Fellowship (2003-04)
National Center for Ecological Analysis and
Synthesis Postdoctoral Fellowship (1996-98)
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (1991-92, 1993-95)
Anna Grant Birge Fellowship, Center for Limnology, UW-Madison (1994)
John Jefferson Davis Award, Department
of Zoology, UW-Madison (1994, 1996)
Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation Fellowship (1990-91)
National Collegiate Athletics Association Postgraduate Scholarship (1990)
National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics Postgraduate
Scholarship (1990)
Barry M. Goldwater Scholar (1989-90)
Drew University Scholarship (1986-90)
Garden State Distinguished Scholar (1986-90)
Inducted
into Shawnee High School Academic Hall of Fame, Inaugural Class (2010)
Dartmouth’s
Karen E. Wetterhahn Award for Distinguished Creative
or Scholarly Achievement (2003)
Verizon
Academic All-America Hall of Fame Finalist (2001, 2002)
Inducted
into Drew University's Alumni Athletics Hall of Fame (2000)
GTE
College Division At-Large Academic All-American of the Year (1990)
CIBA-GEIGY
Award in Mathematics (1990)
Phi
Beta Kappa (1989)
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