2007 Department News

Headlines for April

Integrative Biology's Bio 1B Field Section receives the 2007 Educational Initiatives Award

Headlines for January

Professor Emeritus William Lidicker elected President of the International Federation of Mammalogists

Headlines for April

Graduate student Elizabeth Kirby receives Department of Defense fellowship
Associate Professor Eileen Lacey receives the Distinguished Teaching Award

Headlines for May

IB undergraduate student Cheng Li selected as a Nathan and Violet David Scholar

Headlines for August

Professor Emeritus George Barlow passes away, memorial service planned for September 8

Headlines for September

Associate professor Eileen Lacey re-elected to the Board of Directors of the American Society of Mammalogists
Professor of the Graduate School Marvalee Wake was designated the "Distinguished Herpetologist 2007" by the Herpetologists' League
Professor of the Graduate School David Wake honored at the Fifth Conference on the Biology of Plethodontid Salamanders


April

Integrative Biology's Bio 1B Field Section receives the 2007 Educational Initiatives Award

Published April 2, 2007

Bio 1B is one of Integrative Biology's more popular course offerings, and recently, its Special Field Section Studies received the 2007 Educational Initiatives Award. Bio 1B's Field Section allows students to conduct field studies in lieu of weekly labs, giving the motivated student an opportunity to experience field work early in their academic career.

Many people contribute to the success of this program, including Dr. Mike Moser, the academic coordinator for the course, Dr. John Latto, a lecturer for Bio 1B, and many Integrative Biology graduate student instructors.

Congratulations!

 

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April

Graduate student Elizabeth Kirby receives Department of Defense fellowship

Published April 24, 2007

Elizabeth Kirby, a graduate student in the Kaufer Lab has been awarded  the prestigious Department of Defense fellowship for her graduate research work. Elizabeth is studying stressor controllability as a mediator of the cognitive, neurogenic and growth factor effects of chronic stress on the hippocampal formation.

 

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May

IB undergraduate student Cheng Li selected as a Nathan and Violet David Scholar

Published May 10, 2007

Cheng (Lily) Li, an undergraduate student in the Barnosky Lab, has been selected as a Nathan and Violet David Scholar to conduct research on "The impact of environmental changes on the skull and mandible of the American Pika (Ochotona Princeps) - a 2D morphometric study". Lily developed the proposal out of research she began with IB / Museum of Paleontology graduate student Brian Kraatz. 

The Nathan and Violet David Scholars Program "gives talented and service-minded students the opportunity to participate in undergraduate research in the sciences" and also sets them up as mentors for children from low-income backgrounds.  Lily was also selected as a Haas Scholar for the same project, an honor she deferred in accepting the David Scholarship. 

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September

Associate professor Eileen Lacey re-elected to the Board of Directors of the American Society of Mammalogists

Published September 13, 2007

Associate professor Eileen Lacey, who is also an associate curator at the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, has been re-elected to the Board of Directors of the American Society of Mammologists at its annual meeting in June at the University of New Mexico.  Dr. Lacey will serve another three-year term on the board assisting in the directing of the world's oldest and largest scientific organization devoted to mammals.

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Professor of the Graduate School David Wake honored at the Fifth Conference on the Biology of Plethodontid Salamanders

Published September 13, 2007

Professor of the Graduate School David Wake was feted by a symposium in his honor at the Fifth  Conference on the Biology of Plethodontid Salamanders, held in San Cristobal de las Casas, Mexico, in early August.

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