Congratulations to PhD candidate Connor White (G. Lauder, advisor) awarded the Robert A. Chapman Memorial Scholarship for Vertebrate Locomotion from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Congratulations to PhD candidate Michael Voysey (A. Davies, advisor) awarded the Robert A. Chapman Memorial Scholarship for Vertebrate Locomotion from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences for his project, “Assessing the effectiveness of a novel tracking device deployment technique for the study of hippo movement patterns."

Congratulations to PhD candidate Mark Wright (S. Pierce, advisor) awarded the Robert A. Chapman Memorial Scholarship for Vertebrate Locomotion from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences for his project, “The “Sprawling-to-Parasagitta” Transition: Evolution of the Mammalian Hip Joint.”

Congratulations to William (Ned) Friedman awarded the Medal of Honor by The Garden Club of America. The Medal of Honor, awarded for outstanding service to horticulture, is presented to Friedman for his research on the evolution of flowering plants. Read more about Ned Friedman awarded the Medal of Honor

Congratulations to PhD candidate, Maya Woolfolk (Hopi Hoekstra, advisor), appointed as 2022 Presidential Member by the Genetics Society of America. The Presidential Membership Initiative was launched in 2020 as a way for the Genetics Society of America to invite talented and creative individuals from diverse backgrounds into our community. 

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Congratulations to PhD candidate Maya Woolfolk (Hopi Hoekstra, advisor) recipient of the National Science Foundation: Graduate Research Fellowship Program Award for her project, "The genetic basis of variation in deer mouse infant vocal behavior."

Congratulations to PhD candidate, Denise Yoon (Benjamin de Bivort, advisor), appointed as a 2022-23 Pedagogy Fellow by The Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning. Read more about Denise Yoon appointed 2022-2023 Bok Pedagogy Fellow

Javier Ortega-Hernández, Assistant Professor in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University, has been awarded an Early Career Grant from the 2022 Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP).

Ortega-Hernández in collaboration with Dr. Rosa Fernández, Institute of Evolutionary Biology in Barcelona, and Dr. Ana Belén Muñoz-García, University of Naples, Federico II., will address the evolution of aerial breathing in arthropods. The three-year...

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Congratulations to Professor Hopi Hoekstra, one of six recipients of the Lowell Thomas Award from The Explorers Club. The Lowell Thomas Award is presented to those who have pushed the limits of discovery, knowledge and human endurance, and have excelled in communicating the importance of exploration and the field sciences to the general public. The 2022 Lowell Thomas awardees exhibited excellence in...

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Studying climate change-induced mass extinctions in the deep geological past allows researchers to explore the impact of environmental crises on organismal evolution. One principal example is the Permian-Triassic climatic crises, a series of climatic shifts driven by global warming that occurred between the Middle Permian (265 million years ago) and Middle Triassic (230 million years ago). These climatic shifts caused two of the largest mass extinctions in the history of life at the end of the Permian, the first at...

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Congratulations to Zane Wolf (George Lauder, Advisor), who has successfully defended her PhD and is now officially Dr. Wolf

Congratulations to IB Concentrator James Caven (Robin Hopkins) awarded the 2022 Hoopes Prize in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences for his project, "Many Plants, One Pattern: Environmental Effects on Plasticity in Phlox."

Congratulations to IB Concentrator Sorcha Rae Ashe (Naomi Pierce) awarded the 2022 Hoopes Prize in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences for her project, "Flying Colors: The Evolution of Wing Color and Color Vision in the Hyperdiverse Eumaeini Butterfly Tribe (Family: Lycaenidae)." Read more about Sorcha Rae Ashe awarded 2022 Hoopes Prize

Lungs are essential to many vertebrates including humans. However, four living amphibian clades have independently eliminated pulmonary respiration and lack lungs, breathing primarily through their wet skin. Little is known of the developmental basis of lung loss in these clades.

In a new study in Science Advances researchers in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology...

Read more about Lungless salamanders develop lungs as embryos despite lung loss in adults for millions of years

Congratulations to PhD candidate Maya Woolfolk and advisor, Hopi Hoekstra, awarded one of 51 Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Gilliam Fellowships for Advanced Study.

The program provides awards to pairs of dissertation advisers and their graduate students based on what HHMI values and considers essential components of the environment, particularly the institution and adviser’s commitment to creating a healthy academic ecosystem and the student’s potential for scientific leadership. HHMI awarded Maya for her project titled, "Understanding the ultimate...

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