In 2012, UC Berkeley paleontologist Anthony Barnosky and 20 co-authors published a dire paper warning that Earth’s climate is approaching a tipping point that could irrevocably drive the planet into a scary and uncertain future.
Professor Todd Dawson has been elected to the Union of Fellows for the American Geophysical Union (AGU) for his long history of work discovering the different
roles trees play in hydrological and biogeochemical processes.
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Two Integrative Biology Graduate Students, Joyce Chery and Roxanne Cruz-de Hoyos, are recipients of the 2015 Distinguished Fellows Video Contest and will receive funds for conference travel.
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Professor Montgomery Slatkin has been selected by the Academic Senate to be one of two lecturers for the 2015 Martin Meyerson Faculty Research Lectures. The lecture, titled “Population Genetics of the Neanderthal Genome Project" will take place on Wednesday April 1.
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At the plenary session of the annual meeting of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, July 30-August 3, 2014, in Chattanooga, TN, Professor of the Graduate School Marvalee Wake was awarded this year’s Henry S. Fitch Award for Excellence in Herpetology.
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John L. and Margaret B. Gompertz Professor Montgomery Slatkin has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), one of the highest honors given to a scientist or engineer in the United States.
W.L. Jepson Professor Bruce Baldwin was awarded the 2013 Asa Gray Award from The American Society of Plant Taxonomists in honor of his outstanding lifetime achievement in the field of plant systematics. The award is named for Asa Gray (1810 – 1888), the most important American botanist of the 19th century. Read More
Congratulations to members of Assistant Professor Cynthia Looy's lab, who presented 6 talks, 2 posters and won several awards at the recent Botanical Society of America meeting.
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Professor of the Graduate School David Wake has been awarded the 2013 Western Evolutionary Biology Evolutionist of the Year Prize (Webby). The Prize is awarded annually to the individual from the west of North America who has contributed significantly to the scientific study of biological evolution. Read More