2016

Congratulations to Mansi Srivastava awarded the Smith Family Award for Excellence in Biomedical Research!

Congratulations to Bruno Souza de Medeiros (Farrell Lab), awarded the 2016-17 Jorge Paulo Lemann Fellowship!

Congratulations to Sang Kim ( Farrell Lab) for receiving a Graduate Student Research Award from the Society of Systematic Biologists for his research on diurnal longhorn beetle radiation in the Caribbean!

The Holbrook lab's latest study, led by Postdoctoral Fellow, Yong-Jiang Zhang, in Plant Physiology reports on reversible leaf xylem collapse.

Congratulations to OEB IB concentrator, Julius G. Bright Ross '17, one of three students to receive the 2017 Marshall Scholarship. Bright Ross hopes to pursue a Ph.D. in Zoology at the University of Oxford. Full Story.

Congratulations to E.O. Wilson, recipient of the 2016 Humane Society of New York Humane Medal! The Humane Society chose Prof. Wilson for his lifetime of work, his pioneering efforts to protect the biodiversity of the planet, and in recognition of his 32nd...

Congratulations to Elena Kramer, Bussey Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, and Martin Nowak, Professor of Mathematics and Biology, recipients of the 2016 Fannie Cox Prize for Excellence in Science Teaching! The Fannie Cox Prize for...

Postdoctoral Fellow, Melissa Whitaker's ( N. Pierce Lab) study published in Frontiers In Microbiology, shows that, unlike most herbivores, lycaenid butterflies do not rely on bacterial symbioses to mediate their diet.

Jim Mallet's work on species hybridization prominently featured in Science Magazine.

James Hanken is part of a team of scientists that have discovered three new speices of minute salamanders in the Sierra Madre del Sur of Oaxaca, Mexico. Until this discovery, only a single species had been reported from the region. The three new...