April 2009: Dr. Todd recently accepted a position as Assistant Professor in Vertebrate Conservaiton Biology at UC Davis in the Department of Wildlife, Fish, & Conservation Biology. He will remain at Virginia Tech to complete his postdoctoral work through 2009.

February 2009: Christine Bergeron was recently awarded a highly competitive EPA Science to Achieve Results (STAR) graduate fellowship. This prestigious award will facilitate her continued doctoral research on the reproductive and developmental effects of maternal and dietary mercury exposure on Bufo americanus.

January 2009: Our research on maternal effects was recently highlighted in Virginia Tech's Research magazine. Follow this link to see the article and learn more.

December 2008: Sarah Budischak was awarded the prestigious Best Student Paper Award from the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry for her work in the Hopkins lab on latent effects of pesticides on amphibians. Please click here to read the press release (PDF).