The national academic honor society, Phi Beta Kappa, inducted four Biology majors from the class of 2015 at its annual meeting on November 11th. Biology majors Catherine Feuille ’15, Abigail Leibowitz ’15, Julia Salinaro ’15 and Talia Shoshany ’15 were among the twenty-two members of the Class of 2015 who were inducted this year. Sharjeel Syed '16 (biology major) was one of the Phi Beta Kappa Sophomore prize recipients. For a link to the full article in Dartmouth Now, please click...
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Professor Mary Lou Guerinot talks with Dartmouth Now about improving the nutritional quality of plants through her work with a small plant in the mustard family, Arabidopsis thaliana. For a link to the article, please click here....
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Professor Nate Dominy and his collaborators used art and other resources such as census data to construct and ecological history of Egypt. Their findings have been published in a paper "Collapse of an ecological network in Ancient Egypt" in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
His work was featured in Dartmouth Now. Please click...
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Professor Olga Zhaxybayeva has been selected to be one of the 2014 Simons Investigators in Mathematical Modeling of Living Systems. This support enables the long-term research of "outstanding theoretical scientists." For more information about the Simons Foundation, please visit their website.
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Professor Kathy Cottingham gave a Plenary Address at the 2014 Ecological Society of America Meeting in Sacramento, California. The title of her talk was "Wearing an ecologist’s hat and facing a world of change."
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Prof. Amy Gladfelter and Prof. Rebecca Irwin are recipients of Dartmouth's 2014 Graduate Student Mentoring Award!
Prof. Kathryn Cottingham was a recipient of the mentoring award last year!
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Andrew Bridges, Ph.D. student in the MCB Graduate Program has published his work on septins in Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. Drew works in the lab of Prof. Amy Gladfelter. The lab is interested in understanding proteins called septins and how they work in cell division.
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Jessica Trout-Haney, Ph.D. student in the EEB Graduate Program has received the Graduate Alumni Award for her work in Prof. Kathy Cottingham's lab on the effects of climate change on lakes in Greenland. For the full story, please click here.
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The Journal of Cell Biology, February 17, 2014 issue features Prof. Amy Gladfelter in "People & Ideas." In the article, Prof. Gladfelter talks about her current research and how her path through life led her to research and teaching. To read the full article, please click here.
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Tom Kraft, Ph.D. student in the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Graduate Program, has been awarded a National Geographic Young Explorers Grant (link) for his project: “Niche construction by Batek hunter-gatherers in Taman Negara, Peninsular Malaysia.”