• Michael Yarnall successfully defended his thesis focused on demography of turkeys in the Black Hills of South Dakota in November 2018.  Congratulations!
• James Waxe and Nate Bowersock recieved scholarships at the annual Ecology awards banquet in fall 2018.  James was honored with the Jim Patton Wildlife Management Scholarship and Nate was awarded a Jack Creek Preserve Wildlife Scholarship.
• Hitomi Okada and Monique Metza both received funds from the Undergraduate Scholars Program at MSU to support their summer research projects on bears and bats, respectively.
• Shannon HIlty and Michael Yarnall were awarded travel grants from the College of Letters and Science and Jacob Melhuish received funds from the Undergraduate Scholars Program at MSU to attend and present at the 2018 meeting of the Montana Chapter of The Wildlife Society in Butte, MT
• Hitomi Okada was awarded funds from the Undergraduate Scholars Program at MSU to support her independent research project on bears and rub trees.
• At the recent Ecology BBQ/Awards Banquet, Michael Yarnall was awarded a scholarship from the Shikar Safari Foundation ($4000), Shannon Hilty received the Don C. Quimby Graduate Wildlife Research Scholarship ($1950), and Megan Heinemann received the Jack Creek Preserve Wildlife Scholarship ($2500).
• Megan Heinemann was awarded funds from the Undergraduate Scholars Program at MSU to support her independent research project on predation of fish by white pelicans.
• James Waxe received a Graduate Enhancement Award from the Montana Institute on Ecosystems to support some of his isotope analyses.  
• Shannon Hilty was awarded a EchoMeter Touch 2 at the recent meeting of the Western Bat Working Group, which will allow her to detect, record, and listen to bat calls in real time.  
• Mary Levandowski was awarded $5000 from the University of Wyoming-NPS Research Station in support of her work on wetlands. 
• Jacob Melhuish was awarded funds from the Undergraduate Scholars Program at MSU to support his independent research project on wild turkeys.  
• At the 2017 meeting of the Montana chapter of The Wildlife Society, Thomas Sutton was honored with the Wynn Freeman Award and Shannon Hilty received a Small Grant Award to support her research on bats.  Way to go!
• James Waxe will participate in a short course (Isotopes in Spatial Ecology and Biogeochemistry, SPATIAL) during summer 2017.  He also was awarded a scholarship to cover course fees.
• Thomas Sutton and Michael Yarnall were awarded funds from the College of Letters and Science to attend and present at the 2017 meeting of the Montana Chapter of The Wildlife Society in Helena, MT.
• Shannon Hilty recently was elected to serve as a Representative-at-Large for the Western Bat Working Group.  
• Dr. Katie Banner joined the group in January 2017 as a post-doctoral researcher, in collaboration with researchers from the US Geological Survey and National Park Service.  She will be focused on improving statistical inferences based on acoustic survey data to inform monitoring and conservation of North American bats.  
• Nate Bowersock received the Kenneth D. Lorang Memorial Award at the annual Ecology awards banquet in fall 2016.
• Thomas Sutton received funding from the MSU Undergraduate Scholars Program in summer and fall 2016 to support his research with Michael Yarnall on Merriam's turkeys. 
• Ben Turnock was honored with the Wynn Freeman Award at the Montana chapter of The Wildlife Society meeting in 2016.