IB Grad Student in the News
Submitted by khansen on Wed, 08/20/2014 - 05:15Lindsey 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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Phylogenetic Diversity and Endemism Revealed
Submitted by khansen on Mon, 07/21/2014 - 09:37Professor 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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Slatkin Elected to National Academy of Sciences
Submitted by khansen on Tue, 04/29/2014 - 08:52John 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.
IB Grad Student Research on the Cover
Submitted by khansen on Fri, 04/11/2014 - 09:14Jeff 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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Kaufer Profile for Bakar Fellows
Submitted by khansen on Fri, 03/07/2014 - 08:51The 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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New Book by Dudley on Alcohol
Submitted by khansen on Fri, 02/28/2014 - 10:58Professor 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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Patel Lab Research Featured at Lawrence Hall of Science
Submitted by khansen on Wed, 02/19/2014 - 12:03Research by members of Professor Nipam Patel's lab will be on display at the Xtreme Bugs Exhibit at the Lawrence Hall of Science through September 1, 2014.
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Kaufer Research on Stress
Submitted by khansen on Tue, 02/18/2014 - 16:42Research by Associate Professor Daniela Kaufer on the relationship between chronic stress and mental illness was the focus of new coverage from multiple news outlets, including the UC Berkeley NewsCenter and the LA Times.
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Profile of IB157
Submitted by khansen on Mon, 02/03/2014 - 05:45The Daily Californian has an excellent profile of Integrative Biology 157, “California Ecosystems,” taught by Assistant Professor Paul Fine.
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Eel River CZO Receives NSF Funding
Submitted by khansen on Wed, 01/15/2014 - 18:55Professor Todd Dawson and Professor Mary Powers will receive $4.9M over the next five years as co-investigators to study the nearly 10,000 square kilometer Eel River watershed in Northern California and how its vegetation, geology and topography affect water flow all the way to the Pacific Ocean.
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