Congratulations to Cynthia Bradford for Winning the 2022 Perkins Award
Congratulations to Cynthia Bradford for winning the 2022 John S. Perkins Award for her outstanding long-term service at the College of Arts & Sciences, Department of Biology. As a proposal development specialist, Cindy has gathered grant proposals, which have received 70 awards, totaling over twelve million dollars in funding within the past year alone. […]
Spring 2022 Undergraduate Research Award Winners
Congratulations to Maria Salgado Patino, Russell Laman, and Jamie Li for receiving the Spring 2022 Undergraduate Research Award. This annual award is given to outstanding seniors of any major who are performing research in Biology Department labs by the Biology Research and Honors Committee. Maria Salgado (Neuroscience and Psychology) conducted her research on a non-canonical […]
Cheryl Knott Receives US Fish and Wildlife Service Grant
Congratulations to Cheryl Knott, Professor of Anthropology, Biology, and Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies, for being awarded a five-year grant from the US Fish and Wildlife Service for her research on the conservation of wild orangutans on the island of Borneo. Dr. Knott and her team will be applying new technology to assess orangutan behavioral […]
American Association of Anthropological Genetics Elects Christopher Schmitt as Vice President
Congratulations to Assistant Professor Christopher Schmitt for being elected Vice President for the American Association of Anthropological Genetics (AAAG). As Vice President, Dr. Schmitt will organize a joint symposium for AAAG with the American Association of Biological Anthropologists for their 2023 annual meeting in Reno, after which he will transition to serving as President. Congratulations […]
Sean Mullen Promoted to Professor of Biology
Congratulations to Sean Mullen for his promotion to Professor of Biology. Dr. Mullen is an evolutionary biologist who utilizes genomic tools to investigate the origin and maintenance of the diversity of species. He has garnered significant attention in his field for seminal research on speciation genomics and the adaptive evolution of butterfly wing color, pattern, […]
Richard Primack Presents to the National Science Teachers Association
In Houston, Texas, Dr. Richard Primack presented a keynote address at the National Science Teachers Association for their annual meeting regarding his research. His talk, Walden Warming: Climate Change Comes to Thoreau’s Concord, provided an overview of the research that he and his students have been doing over the past 20 years with support from […]
Gabe Calistro’s Research Supported by CGS Social Impact Research Fund
Gabe Calistro is a junior undergraduate student who has been working with Sal Genovese, a CGS lecturer of natural sciences and mathematics, to investigate the potentially devastating effects of microplastics, plastic fragments from water bottles, clothing, and car tires, in the coastal waters of Massachusetts. With the support of the Social Impact Research Fund, Gabe is […]
Sean Mullen—New Professor of Biology
Congratulations to Sean Mullen for his promotion to Professor of Biology. Dr. Mullen is an evolutionary biologist who utilizes genomic tools to investigate the origin and maintenance of the diversity of species. He has garnered significant attention in his field for seminal research on speciation genomics and the adaptive evolution of butterfly wing color, pattern, […]
New Assistant Professor of Biology: Meg Younger
Meg Younger is our new assistant professor at the BU Biology Department with expertise in neurobiology and behavior. Professor Younger received her Ph.D. in Neuroscience from the University of California at San Francisco in 2013 and completed postdoctoral research at Rockefeller University. She has used the dengue and Zika vector mosquito as a genetic model […]
Congratulations to Les Kaufman for His Recent Feature in Science
In 2020, Kaufman and his colleagues organized a diverse team of scientists, doctors, economists, and conservationists to address the issue of primary prevention of zoonotic pandemics. In this article, Dr. Ari Berstein of Harvard School of Public Health led the investigation of loss and advantages brought about by recent pandemics. The team has proposed that […]