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... More
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... More
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... More
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... More
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... More
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... More
Congratulations to John Finnerty and His Team for Their Recently Published Paper In Caribbean Herpetology
Congratulations to John Finnerty and his team for their recently published paper in Caribbean Herpetology, describing snakes, lizards, and toads populating the terrestrial habitats of Calabash Caye. The Calabash Caye is a small mangrove-dominated island near the eastern Turneffe Atoll, Belize. The city of Turneffe Atoll is home to the... More
Congratulations to Ana Fiszbein For Her Feature in The Brink:
Boston University biologist, Ana Fiszbein was featured in BU’s research publication, The Brink. Dr. Fiszbein has been investigating mRNA’s potential to treat and prevent cancer, a disease that impacts nearly 1.8 million Americans a year. The Fiszbein Lab investigates gene expression of mRNA transmitting genetic information from the DNA in the... More
James Traniello Published in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
Dr. James Traniello, in collaboration with anthropologist Jeremy DeSilva, recently published their article, “When and why did human brains decrease in size? A new change-point analysis and insights from brain evolution in ants” in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. This article has been recognized by over 50 media platforms including... More
Jerry Chen Featured in Science
Congratulations to Dr. Jerry Chen on his recent study published in Science. In this study, Dr. Chen highlights how the brain incorporates external stimulus and internal memory to create the sense of touch. By utilizing mice models, Dr. Chen and his team from BU and the Allen Institute of Brain... More