Environmental Science
Outstanding Faculty of the Year 2006-07
Dr.
Lisette Waits
Dr.
Lisette Waits, Associate Professor of Wildlife Resources, was
selected as the outstanding Environmental Science Faculty for 2006. Dr.
Waits has been active in the EnvS program since 1998, and has helped to make the EnvS
program the success that it is today by directing the research of four EnvS undergraduate seniors in their
senior thesis and research class, and graduating two EnvS graduate students.
She is currently working with one other EnvS M.S. student. Lisette's areas of
specialization are conservation biology, conservation genetics, landscape
genetics, and molecular biology. Her research focuses on the genetic scale
of the biodiversity continuum, by evaluating the levels and patterns of
genetic diversity in different taxonomic groups and understanding the
evolutionary and biological processes that shape these patterns. We are very proud to present to her the
2006-2007 outstanding faculty member award for her significant contributions!
Biological
Sciences
