Congratulations to Kyle Coblentz (PhD candidate in the Novak Lab) for receiving the E.C. Pielou Award for his talk "Quantifying individual diet specialization using Bayesian hierarchical models" presented at the Ecological Society of America's annual meeting held August 6-11 in Portland, Oregon. This competitive award is presented annually by the Statistical Ecology Section of ESA. Kyle's paper was also published in Ecology earlier this year.