Texas Tech University

Graduate Student, Biological Sciences

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The Graduate School of Texas Tech has been instrumental in my formation, providing me with monetary support to complete my studies at Tech. I was honored with the Helen Devitt Jones and the Hazlewood Fellowships. In addition, with the unconditional support of the Graduate School, Dr. Baker, the Department of Biological Sciences, and the Department of Geography, I had the chance to present my results in more than 30 scientific meetings. During my tenure here, my research has been honored with several awards including: The Karl Koopman Award (the highest award given by the North American Symposium of Bat Research), the Texas Genetics Society Award, the ESRI International Conference of Users Award, the William B. Davis Award and the Robert Packard Award from the Texas Society of Mammalogists, the first place in the Graduate Student Research Poster Competition at the TTU Association of Biologists conference, and recently the Horn Professors Award at Texas Tech. Texas Tech has also provided support to start a program of cooperation between Colombian institutions and our alma mater. During the past three years I have been working head to head with colleagues in different institutions in my home country, including the Instituto de Ciencias of the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, the Universidad Tecnológica del Chocó, and the Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas. The goal of this program is to provide scientific training to young Colombian biologists and to document the diversity of Colombia, considered a megadiverse country, and particularly to document the diversity of the Biogeographic Chocó region in Colombia, which is considered a center of endemism in the Neotropics.

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