Students receive summer funding to study frog evolution with biology professor

Three students, Christopher Chipko, ’08, Nailah Cummings, ’10, and Rele Sekonyela, '09, will receive summer support from the National Science Foundation, which will allow them to dedicate themselves to studying frog evolution under professor Rafael de Sá this summer. Sekonyela's funding comes in the form of a special NSF supplement designed specifically for international students interested in pursuing scientific research. All three students worked in de Sá’s laboratory during the 2007-2008 academic year.

Rafael de Sá has studied systematics, evolution and development of amphibians and reptiles with undergraduates at the University of Richmond since 1993.

Posted May 6, 2008