Shannon Galbraith-Kent, a Ph.D. candidate in the Steven Handel lab, created a butterfly habitat in the courtyard at South Plainfield Middle School. The habitat (7m x 7m) was devised by Shannon as a part of the National Science Foundation's GK-12 program, in which she is a Teaching Fellow this year. The students hope to continue the care and study of the habitat next year through an after-school environmental club. Four classes of students planted almost 300 native plants representing eight species (e.g., Asclepias sp., Aster novae-angliae, Rudbeckia hirta).

Amy Karpati, Dr. Steven Handel, Dr. Rebecca Jordan, and Dr. David Howe, helped on Planting Day (May 9th).