Our graduate student Kris Budd, has been awarded the Douglas D. Randall Young Scientists Development Fund. This fund is a travel award that provides funding to undergraduate students, graduate students, and postdoctoral fellows at the University of Missouri who are conducting life-sciences research.

Kris is using the Travel Award to give a presentation on her Asian elephant research at the 28th International Congress for Conservation Biology (ICCB 2017) in Cartegena Colombia July 23rd through the 27th.