BDN reports on Longore’s Distinguished Mycologist Award
The Bangor Daily News reported that Joyce Longcore, associate research professor at the School of Biology and Ecology, received the 2022 Distinguished Mycologist Award, one of the highest honors granted by the Mycological Society of America. The annual award recognizes scientists with distinguished careers in mycology research or service in the field, according to the national organization. Longcore has spent decades studying various species of microscopic, aquatic fungi from a group called Chytridiomycota, also known as chytrids.