Shasta, Ellen, and Anu making waves!
Shasta Ferranto and Ellen Kersten both have won recognition for their outstanding teaching. Shasta won the Berkeley outstanding GSI award, and Ellen won the ESPM outstanding GSI award. Congrats to both of them! More great news...Ellen's paper, "Do small food stores provide access to nutritious foods? Comparing database and store visit measures of the community nutrition environment" has been accepted in Preventing Chronic Disease, and has been selected as the 2012 Student Paper Contest Winner! Shasta will be starting a new job this summer as a newly minted Berkeley PhD with the Bureau of Land Management in Washington DC. She will be a Presidential Management Fellow in the Planning and NEPA division. Anu Kramer has been selected to receive a 2012 National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) Fellowship. Congrats to all of them. More lab information here.