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It is with sadness that we share the news that our beloved colleague and friend, David Wake, passed away yesterday morning, surrounded by his family. A native of South Dakota, Dave earned his Ph.D.

Tyrone Hayes is Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Congratulations to Professor Tyrone Hayes. One of six UC Berkeley faculty members and top scholars have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS), a 241-year-old organization honoring the country’s most accomplished artists, scholars, scientists and leaders who help solve the world’s most urgent challenges.

Congratulations to Kirsten Verster and Leslea Hlusko for Winning the Extraordinary Teaching in Extraordinary Times Award

The Extraordinary Teaching in Extraordinary Times Award is intended to honor UC Berkeley faculty, staff, and student instructors who in 2020 embraced the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, and engaged in or supported excellent teaching. These instructors and staff used innovative methods and worked beyond their traditional roles to ensure that students remained engaged and supported, and were challenged to do meaningful work under extraordinary circumstances.

Congratulations to the 2021 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) selections! >

Carina Galicia receives a 2021 UC Berkeley Excellence in Management Award >

Tropical species are moving northward as winters warm >

Chair Statement

Recent events have shown that we, as Americans, still have a long path to justice, healing, and understanding, especially in the treatment of our Black and other marginalized communities. The police involved killings of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor and others whose names are not a part of the national story, show that racism, xenophobia and intolerance are still prevalent. But every day, each and every one of us can stand up against racial prejudice and intolerant attitudes.

We join Chancellor Carol Christ and many others on the Berkeley campus in condemning this violence and standing against racism in its many forms. We encourage you to read the Chancellor’s recent message, which also includes links to resources during these difficult times: https://news.berkeley.edu/2020/05/29/a-message-from-campus-leaders-standing-together/

Acts of racism, violence, and injustice toward one another, particularly toward our communities of color, are a stark reminder that we all must do our personal best to make our community fair, inclusive, and just. The Department of Integrative Biology has pledged to listen and learn of the perspectives on anti-Black racism across the university and identify necessary policies, programs, research and the appropriate actions to address racism in all forms. We must make real, substantive change, and make a commitment to look squarely at systemic racism on our campus and deal with it.

We are stronger together.

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The Department of Integrative Biology (IB) offers Undergraduate and Graduate academic programs as well as Faculty Research that focuses on the integration of structure and function that influences the biology, ecology, and evolution of organisms. It investigates integration at all levels of organization from molecules to the biosphere, and in all branches of the tree of life: plants, animals, fungi, and microbes.

If you are interested in medicine and related health sciences, ecology and environmental sciences, or whole‐organism biology, including the study of genetic, cellular, and morphological processes in animals and plants, then this is the major for you

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