Congratulations to Priya Chakrabarti Basu, Assistant Professor of Pollinator Health and Apiculture, for two recent awards: the American Beekeeping Federation and the Foundation for Preservation of Honey Bees’s Dr. Roger Hoopingarner Award for Best Scientific Presentation in January, as well as the Zoological Society of India’s S.P. Raychaudhuri Memorial Award in December.
Dr. Basu gave two keynote talks to the Federation members, covering efforts to map the bee nutrition landscape as well as nutritional impacts from abiotic stressors like heat and drought. The Memorial Award reflected her ongoing contributions to pollinator research.
You can learn about Basu’s work at her research website.