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Entomology Ph.D. student earns UW’s graduate student internationalization honor

Miranda Bryant with an image of an as-yet-unnamed parasatoid wasp.

Bits of coincidence here and there prompted a computer science master’s student to switch paths and instead work toward a Ph.D. in entomology.

The output?

Miranda Bryant is UW’s U.S. Graduate Student Award for Excellence in Internationalization recipient for 2012.

“I’m very honored,” says the second-year doctoral student, who is advised by Professor Scott Shaw in the Department of Ecosystem Science and Management in the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources. Bryant is Shaw’s second graduate student to receive the honor.

UW’s International Board of Advisers selects recipients.

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