Biology Ph.D. Student Receives Prestigious National Honors to Study Fungi’s Role in Forest Health

by Dan Bernardi, Syracuse University
March 7, 2025

Eva Legge, a first-year Ph.D. student majoring in biology in the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S), is the recipient of three prestigious honors: the Ecological Society of America’s (ESA) 2025 Katherine S. McCarter Graduate Student Policy Award; a Mollie Beattie Visiting Scholar award from the Society of American Foresters (SAF) and a graduate research fellowship from the National Science Foundation (NSF).

Legge’s most recent recognition, the Katherine S. McCarter Graduate Student Policy Award, offers practical training and experience in science policy. This spring, Legge will travel to Washington, D.C., to participate in policy and communications training at the ESA headquarters. Legge will also meet with congressional policymakers on Capitol Hill to advocate for federal investments in biological and ecological sciences.

Keep reading: https://artsandsciences.syracuse.edu/biology/news/biology-phd-student-awarded-prestigious-national-honors/

Read theESA press release: https://esa.org/blog/2025/03/06/esa-2025-graduate-student-policy-award-cohort-named/