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.
Read More...
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.
Read More
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
Dwight Springthrope, an Integrative Biology Graduate Student and a CiBER-IGERT Trainee, received the Judge's Award for this year's Best IGERT Video Poster! View Poster | Read More
Assistant Professor Rauri Bowie has been selected for the 2013 Distinguished Teaching Award by the UC Berkeley Committee on Teaching.
Judy Scotchmoor, Assistant Director at the IB-affilitated UC Museum of Paleontology, is to be the 5th recipient of the Stephen Jay Gould Prize awarded by the Society for the Study of Evolution.
Professor Craig Moritz is the 2012 recipient of the Molecular Ecology Prize.
Read Comprehensive Profile
Professor Emeritus David Wake is the recipient of the 2012 Fellows' Award presented by the California Academy of Sciences. This honor is given to "especially prominent scientists who have made outstanding contributions to their specific scientific fields."
Read News Release