‘Slug Guy’ wins Outstanding Master’s Thesis Award

Philip G. Hahn, a 2010 graduate of the UW-Green Bay master’s program in Environmental Science and Policy, was honored April 30 at the annual alumni awards program. He won the Outstanding Master’s Thesis Award. Hahn was focusing his ecology research on an invasive woodland plant, garlic mustard, until something else caught his eye. From there, he followed the slime trails. “A lot of people don’t study slugs, for obvious reasons,” Hahn told the awards banquet audience, “but I think they’re actually kind of fun.” It’s an interesting story; read more.