Research by Professor Nipam Patel on how butterflies can color their wings with pigmentless "structural color" is featured on KQED Science.

Professor Anthony Barnosky is the author of a new book, Dodging Extinction, which provides strategies for preventing the sixth mass extinction.
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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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The Department of Integrative Biology (IB) is seeking applications for a tenure-track faculty position for a biologist studying adaptation. The research areas we are specifically considering include: [1] the genetics of adaptation, [2] genomics, [3] organismal evolution, [4] physiological adaptation, and [5] adaptation in a changing environment. We are particularly interested in candidates whose research spans various sub-disciplines within our broad department.
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Lindsey Dougherty, a graduate student in Roy Caldwell's lab, and her research on disco clams is the focus of a NY Times article.
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Professor Brent Mishler and his research group published a major paper presenting new quantitative methods for assessing patterns of phylogenetic diversity and endemism on the landscape using collection data.
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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.

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Jeff Benca's computer rendering of the long-extinct lycopod, Leclercqia scolopendra, and accompanying article has been chosen as the cover of March’s centennial issue of the American Journal of Botany. ​Bencas is a graduate student in Assistant Professor Cynthia Looy's Lab.  
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The Bakar Fellows Program supports innovative research by early career faculty at UC Berkeley.  Associate Professor Daniela Kaufer is a 2013-14 Bakar Fellow, and her research is profiled in depth on the Bakar Fellow site.
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Professor Robert Dudley has published a new book (The Drunken Monkey: Why We Drink and Abuse Alcohol; University of California Press, 2014) that assesses the evolutionary origins of attraction to alcohol.
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