Congratulations to Brent Hawkins (James Hanken and Matthew P. Harris Labs), he has successfully defended his PhD and is now officially Dr. Hawkins!

Congratulations to Ava Mainieri (Haig Lab), she successfully defended and is now officially Dr. Mainieri! 

The Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology proudly announces Professor Peter Girguis as one of fifteen scientists awarded the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation grant as part of the Symbiosis in Aquatic Systems Initiative investigator program. The international cohort of current and emerging leaders in aquatic symbiosis research will...

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The Society for the Study of Evolution, The American Society of Naturalists, and the Society of Systematic Biologists announces Scott Edwards and Dr. Richard Kliman (Cedar Crest College) as recipients of the inaugural Inclusiveness, Diversity, Equity, and Access (IDEA) Award. Dr. Edwards and Dr. Kliman were...

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Postdoc, Katrina Jones and Prof. Stephanie Pierce teamed with the Field Museum of Natural History to find how and when changes happened in the spine of mammals during evolution. Jones says the study, published in Nature Ecology & Evolution, tries to answer a fundamental evolutionary question, "How does a relatively simple structure evolve into a complex one that can do lots of different things?"

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