Dr. Robin L. Chazdon was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1957. She attended Grinnell College and got her first taste of the tropics during her second year there on an off-campus field study program. She received her Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from Cornell University in 1984. After three post-doctoral positions she came to UConn as an assistant professor in 1988. She received tenure in 1994 and was promoted to full professor in 2000. At UConn, Chazdon has advised one master’s and five Ph.D. students to completion; she currently has three doctoral students. She has served on dozens of master’s and doctoral committees and has trained Mary Beth Palomaki, a University Scholar and Honors Scholar, who is graduating this May. Continue reading →

Harry A. Frank is a professor of chemistry and Associate Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. He was an NIH Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California at Berkeley from 1977 to 1980 after earning his Ph.D. from Boston University and B.S. from Memphis State University. He joined the UConn faculty in 1980.