An enormous set of congratulations today for Dr. Christine Madliger who was just awarded the Governor General’s Gold Medal for best PhD thesis at the University of Windsor for 2016. One Gold Medal recipient is recognized each year for the most outstanding PhD thesis within a University. Christine’s PhD examining committee were overwhelmingly in favour of the nomination leading to the award. Moreover, Christine has now published all five data chapters from her thesis entitled “Assessing baseline glucocorticoids as conservation biomarkers in a declining aerial insectivore“, and during her time as a PhD student she also led or was a sole/co-author on an additional 6 publications. We couldn’t be more proud of you Christine. Congratulations from all of us.