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NSF has awarded a predoctoral fellowship to Matt Wilkins for his thesis research on sexual selection and incipient speciation in barn swallows. Matt leaves in a few days for Israel and Turkey, so try to congratulate him before he disappears. The

Here is her title and abstract:Diversity and disease: how do changes in pathogen communities influence disease risk for amphibians?Growing evidence suggests that diverse ecosystems provide a biological “buffer” from certain human and wildlife

Rob Guralnick has received an NSF Grant entitled Map of Life: An infrastructure for integrating global species distribution knowledge. This new collaborative research award is from NSF Advances in Biological Informatics and is split between Rob and

Noah Fierer and his colleagues (including Elizabeth Costello, previously in EBIO, now at Stanford) have a paper coming out in PNAS about the possibility of identifying individuals from the community of bacteria on their hands. This was in the

Clinton Francis has just heard that he has been awarded a two year postdoctoral fellowships at the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent) at Duke.Here are the title and the summary of his project:Acoustic signal space conservatism: a

Becca Safran, Matt Wilkins, Joey Hubbard and Julie Marling have published a paper in PLOS One, describing the dynamic nature of carotenoid concentrations in barn swallows, and relationships with fitness. Here is a link to the paper:www.plosone.

Ned Friedman will deliver the Keynote Address for the Darwin Day celebration at the University of Tennessee. This is the most recent of his many activities (teaching and lecturing) expressing his abiding interest in pre-Darwinian evolutionary

Mike Grant is a recipient of ACE award by the American Council on Education for his technological innovations to facilitate interactions with foreign students. He will be presenting a paper on this work at the International Collaborative 2010

Alan Townsend and Robert Howarth have just had their article entitled "Fixing the Global Nitrogen Problem" appear in Scientific American. This article looks at nitrogen emanating from tailpipes, smokestacks and fertilizers, and their increasing

Ned Friedman and Pam Diggle just got word from NSF that their NSF Research Coordination Network grant proposal, "microMORPH:  Microevolutionary and Organismic Research in Plant History" will be funded at 100% ($481,700).  This is the first