Department of Biological Sciences

Dr. Laurel Symes, Neukom Fellow, is featured in the Nature article, Research Protocols:  A forest of hypotheses.

Dr. Dustin Rubenstein '99 returned to Dartmouth to report on his work about how organisms adapt to environmental change.  While at Dartmouth, Dr. Rubenstein was enrolled in the Biology FSP and was an undergraduate researcher in the lab of Prof. Richard Holmes.

Professor Mary Lou Guerinot has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS).  Academy members are elected by their peers for outstanding contributions to science. 

Professor Mark McPeek has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.  He joins a distinguished group of more than 4,600 Fellows and 600 Foreign Honorary Members.

Milo Johnson'13 is one of the 17 Dartmouth students who were awarded 2016 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships.

Nicolas Norwitz '18 has won a prestigious Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship.  Nicolas is an undergraduate researcher in Professor Sharon Bickel's laboratory.  He is a biology and neuroscience double major.

Prof. Eric Schaller is an accomplished fiction writer and illustrator.  His latest work is a collection of short stories called "Meet Me in the Middle of the Air."

Molecular and Cellular Biology graduate student, Jennifer Conrad, has been awarded a pre-doctoral fellowship by the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture for her work on the role of plant hormone cytokinin in the architecture of rice root systems.

Prof. Mary Lou Guerinot's lab and Prof. Tom Jack's lab are winners in the FASEB BioArt Competition!  Winning images will be displayed at the National Institutes of Health Visitor Center next year.

Sarah Colon '17 and former US Assistant Surgeon General, Susan Blumenthal, published an opinion piece in the Huffington Post about the paradox of the high rates of childhood obesity and food insecurity in America.