 | SFS is pleased to announce that Ian Breckheimer of Guilford College, a biology/environmental studies major who spent Fall 2004 at SFS's Center for Rainforest Studies in Australia, has won the first place Derieux Award in the undergraduate category for ecology at the Collegiate Academy of the North Carolina Academy of Science (CANCAS). He will next present his paper, entitled "Court martial: Habitat flexibility and species survival under conditions of global climate change for the Tooth-billed Bowerbird" in late April, at the Southeast regional meeting of BetaBetaBeta, an undergraduate honor society. The meeting will be at an association of Southeastern Biologists Conference in Alabama. Congratulations to Ian and his advisor, SFS faculty member Amanda Freeman. About CANCAS
The Collegiate Academy of the North Carolina Academy of Science (CANCAS) was created in 1954 with the primary goal of "stimulation of scientific research done by and reported by college students." (John A. Yarbrough, Secretary-Treasurer of the North Carolina Academy of Science in CANCAS, March, 1956). The annual meeting provides a forum for students to present their research. Presentations are judged and Derieux Awards for Excellence in Undergraduate Research are presented at an Awards Ceremony. Winners of first place awards are invited to submit a full manuscript of their research to the Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society, the official journal of the NCAS.
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