Congratulations to Dr. Timon T. Keller on completing his PhD, and to Jillian Neece and Anna Pieper on earning their MS degrees. What a collection of excellent research studies! Another big congrats to Nathan Kiel, Eileen Mavencamp and Monica Turner for receiving the 2026 William S. Cooper Award from the Ecological Society of America for their 2025 paper in Ecological Monographs! This study was part of Nathan’s dissertation and included Eileen’s senior honors thesis.