FES professor Matt Betts received an Emerging Scholar Award at Phi Kappa Phi's initiation. The OSU chapter of the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi has established the Emerging Scholar Faculty Award in order to recognize non-tenured faculty for outstanding research or creative activity in his or her field of study. This award is open to faculty in the early stages of their professional careers and provides a $1,000 honorarium and a one-year active membership in Phi Kappa Phi to the recipient.

FES professor William Ripple was featured on Science Update. The subject was how eliminating bears, wolves, and other top predators has far-reaching consequences.

When Jerry Franklin and FES professor Norm Johnson look past the Pilot Joe restoration project, they see forests with a future.  The Mail Tribune reports on their work in Southern Oregon.  The goal of ecological forestry is to preserve the largest trees and improve forest health, including protecting northern spotted owl habitat, while producing wood for mills and county coffers, and reducing wildfire devastation, according to Franklin and Johnson.

FES professor Lisa Ganio is a panelist in an upcoming Women in Policy and Women in Science public event, "Breaking down the wall: communication at the interface of environmental policy and science".   This event will be held on April 25 from 6:00-7:30pm in MU 109.  Panelists will be discussing the need to bridge the communication gap in environmental science and policy in the face of critical changes to the environment, as well as answering audience questions.