Professor Emeritus Marian Diamond has been awarded the 2012 Clark Kerr Award for her contribution to the advancement of higher education.
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Assistant Professor Cynthia Looy is featured in a UC Berkeley News Center profile about core drilling of Clear Lake to explore past climate change.
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Professor Mary Power has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
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IB Undergraduate Huong Tran is a 2012 recipient of the Chancellor's Award for Public Service in the Civic Engagement category for her work supporting dental and oral hygiene work with low-income communities.
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Assistant Professor Paul Fine has published a paper on a "novel analytical framework to jointly evaluate historical and contemporary environmental predictors of the latitudinal gradient in the diversity of terrestrial vertebrates."
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Berkeley NewsCenter article: From Teaching Laboratory to Research Article in Nature: Leaping lizards and dinosaurs inspire robot design.

Leslea Hlusko and Robert Full have been named 2011 Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society and publisher of the journal Science. See the Berkeley News Center article.

IB Faculty and students featured in Berkeley News Center article about SACNAS: teaming up to change face of science.

IB's Greg Goldsmith has incorporated high-definition photos and video of a cloud forest in Costa Rica into a middle-school curriculum:
Go to Berkeley NewsCenter's article about Goldsmith.
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