Laurie Stevison, alumna of the Noor Lab, was awarded the John Maynard Smith Prize 2014 at the recent meeting of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology in Lausanne, Switzerland. Her Prize Lecture was on "The Time-Scale of Recombination Rate Evolution in Great Apes." The prize recognizes outstanding young researchers in the field of evolutionary biology. It honors John Maynard Smith (1920-2004), an eminent British evolutionary biologist and author. Laurie is now doing a postdoc in the laboratory of Jeff Wall at the University of California-San Francisco. We offer our proudest congratulations to Laurie!