Research and Graduate Studies @ KU

Faculty review, student participates in thesis competition

The Office of Graduate Studies is once again serving on the Midwestern Associate of Graduate Schools’ Distinguished Master's Thesis committee.  MAGS is the accreditation board for KU graduate programs.  Faculty members were asked to review 19 of the 46 nominations in areas ranging from cellular & molecular biology to international and comparative politics.   The competition ends Feb. 28.  Each recipient of a MAGS Distinguished Master’s Thesis Award will receive a $500 honorarium at the Annual Meeting on April 2-4, 2008 in St. Louis.

Katherine Roach, ecology and evolutionary biology, will represent the KU in the competition with her thesis “Food Web Dynamics of Fishes in Relation to Hydrological Connectivity Gradients in the Upper Mississippi River”.