A huge set of congratulations goes out to Christine Madliger for successfully defending her PhD thesis entitled “Assessing baseline glucocorticoids as conservation biomarkers in a declining aerial insectivore“. Christine is the first PhD student to defend from the Love Lab and her committee were so impressed by her thesis and the publications from her time as a PhD student that they nominated her thesis for a Governor General’s Gold Medal. Congratulations Christine. We are all very proud of you.