The 2008-09 Hrdy Visiting Fellowship in Conservation Biology is awarded to Professor Navjot Sodhi, of the National University of Singapore.

Papers by Jonathan Losos, Farish Jenkins and Arkhat Abzhanov are cited among the past decade's 'gems' of evolutionary evidence as Nature marks Darwin's 200th birthday.

Graduate student Dave Blackburn's study of the "Wolverine frog" from Africa—frogs with erectile claws—was one of the Top 10 Stories of 2008 reported by the journal Science. The study was co-authored with Professors, James Hanken and Farish A. Jenkins. Gazette Story.

Anne Pringle researches why explosively launched ascomycete fungal spores have drag-minimizing shapes. PNAS Abstract.

Launch of the Encyclopedia of Life is named one of the 10 “biggest science stories of the year" in Nature Magazine.

Gonzalo Giribet's paper on metazoan phylogenomics, published in the journal Nature, was included in Discover magazine’s "top 100 Science Stories of 2008."

Paul Moorcroft creates models of the forest to provide a detailed view of responses to climate variation. Full story.

Prashant Sharma, a graduate student in the Giribet Lab, received the Don Rosen award of the Willi Hennig Society for his talk at the Hennig XXVII International Meeting in Tucuman, Argentina. 

Walden Pond research by grad students Brad Ruhfel and Charles Willis, working with Charles Davis, is featured in the New York Times, 10/28/2008.

Opening of HMNH's exhibit "The Language of Color" features Hopi Hoekstra describing how animals and plants communicate with color. Full Story.

Takeshi Ise, a 2008 PhD graduate in Paul Moorcroft's lab, has shown that rising temperatures may dry up peat bogs, causing carbon release.

Gonzalo Giribet explained the role of mite harvestmen in National Geographic Channel's Naked Science: "Supercontinent" episode airing on Oct 9, 2008.

Kirsten Bomblies is among Harvard's three MacArthur Foundation 2008 "genius" grant recipients in the sciences. She will begin her OEB appointment in July, 2009.

Audubon: The Early Drawings -- A discussion at HMNH with Scott Edwards and Leslie Morris on Sept 18, 2008.

Missy Holbrook will moderate a discussion with Edward O. Wilson and Eric Chivian entitled "Sustaining Life: A Conversation" at Boston's Museum of Science on October 3, 2008.