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- Darwin Week at the University of Colorado, Boulder, sponsored by the Secular Students and Skeptics Society there, running February 7-11. Featured are Vic Stenger on "Cosmic Creationism," a screening of the film Creation followed by commentary from
- Andy Martin (PI) and CoPIs William Adams, Nichole Barger, John Basey, Barbara-Demmig-Adams, and Sam Flaxman have just learned that their proposal to CU's Science Education Initiative has been funded. They have garnered $480,000 to support "
- Ned Friedman has just received word that has been elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. This honor from AAAS is in recognition of his "important contributions to the study of angiosperm evolutionary
- Alan Townsend and CoPI Eric Davidson (Woods Hole Res Ctr) have just learned that their NSF-RCN "Reactive Nitrogen in the Biosphere" has been funded ($499,791). The grant will focus on key unknowns in changing N cycle, concentrating on
- With coauthors Chrysoula Gubili, Ra艧it Bilgin, Evrim Kalkan, S. 脺nsal Karhan, Catherine S. Jones, David W. Sims, Hakan Kabasakal, and Leslie R. Noble, Andy published: Antipodean white sharks on a Mediterranean walkabout? Historical
- In addition to being a successful EBIO major who wants to be a veterinarian, Nate Solder plays on CU's football team. He has been nominated as a finalist for the William V. Campbell Trophy, also known as the academic Heisman. The NFF
- A new blog has been created to assist the biological collections community to discuss and share ideas about the National Science Foundation鈥檚 solicitation for 鈥淎dvancing Digitization of Biological Collections (ADBC).鈥 The blog aims to 鈥渆ncourage the
- David Stock and Brent Hawkins attended the Southwest Regional Meeting of the Society for Developmental Biology in Austin, TX over the past weekend, where they presented a talk and a poster, respectively. Brent, an MA student co-advised by Alex Cruz
- EBIO ranked 11th among the top 20 Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Programs in the nation by the National Research Council!
- With coauthors Robert Cerny, Maria Cattell, Tatjana Sauka-Spengler, Marianne Bronner-Fraser, and Feiqiao Yu, Dan is the lead author on:Evidence for the prepattern/cooption model of vertebrate jaw evolutionAbstract: The appearance of jaws was a