Melis passed the position of faculty coordinator and symposium chair to ARE Professor Sofia Villas-Boas. Sofia is especially well suited as his successor, Melis says, because she too has a track record of supporting undergraduate research through the honors program and other initiatives like CNR’s Sponsored Projects for Undergraduate Research program and the campus-wide Undergraduate Research Apprenticeship program.

Read more about the remarkable career of Anastasios Melis, and the CNR Honors Research Program here.