Grace Soltis one of three new Cory Scholarship awardees

Congratulations to Grace Soltis, one of three awardees of the Fall 2021 Ernest N. Cory Undergraduate Scholarship! This scholarship provides up to $1,000 for undergraduate students each semester who are contributing creatively to Entomology Department research and/or extension efforts. For her Entomology Honors thesis, Grace is researching the impacts of Brood X periodical cicadas on the food webs of Maryland forests, observing changes in bird predation pressures both before and after the cicada 2021 event. Grace is an Entomology Minor also working on emerald ash borer biocontrol research in the Gruner lab. Dominique Desmarattes (Fritz lab) and Molly Jones (Burghardt lab) also earned a scholarship.
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