Amy Worthington (Iowa State University) successfully defended her doctoral thesis on the role of prostaglandins in cricket reproduction. 

Through the Canada Research Chairs program, Pedro Peres-Neto and I hosted Dean Adams (Iowa State University), Mike Collyer (Western Kentucky University), and Antigoni Kaliontzopoulou (Centro de Investigacao em Biodiversidade e Recursos Geneticos) for a geomorph workshop. They gave an excellent week-long workshop 27 April-1 May that was attended by 21 undergrads, graduate students, post-docs and faculty from Canada and the US.