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Graduation Day at WISER Girls Secondary School
June 15, 2018
Students at WISER Girls high school in rural Kenya (www.wisergirls.org), founded by Prof Sherryl Broverman, celebrate the graduation of the...
A Tradition of Excellence
June 13, 2018
Do shrimp have color vision? How could we possibly know? Recent Ph.D. graduates Patrick Green (Patek Lab) and Eleanor Caves (Johnsen Lab)...
Anne Lacey Receives Pillar of Excellence Award
May 10, 2018
DGS Assistant Anne Lacey has received one of the first Pillars of Excellence Awards from Dean Valerie Ashby. These awards were created in...
Biomajor Pranalee Pratel Presents at AACR Meeting
May 08, 2018
Graduating senior Pranalee Patel, a Biology and Global Health major, has been chosen to present a poster on her independent study research...
Nijhout Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
April 26, 2018
Hearty congratulations to Professor Fred Nijhout on being elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences! Fred is one of 213 new...
Justin Wright Publishes in PNAS
April 24, 2018
Justin Wright, along with collaborator Jason Fridley of Syracuse University, has published a study of various factors affecting the re-...
Anne Yoder Named a Guggenheim Fellow
April 20, 2018
Anne Yoder is among 173 scholars and artists to receive a Guggenheim Fellowship for 2018. These fellowships recognize "individuals who have...
The Biology Department Regrets to Announce the Death of Prof. Donald Fluke
April 19, 2018
Emeritus Professor Donald Fluke passed away on April 6, 2018, at the age of 95. He received his Ph.D. from Yale University and came to...
BioMajor Eudora Miao receives multiple grants for independent study
April 17, 2018
Biology undergrad Ruolin "Eudora" Miao recently was recently awarded grants from the Mycological Society of America ($500) and Duke's...
Biology Major Receives Goldwater Scholarship
April 11, 2018
Pranav Warman, a sophomore who is double-majoring in Biology and Computer Science, has been named a 2018 Barry M. Goldwater Scholar by the ...
Michael Barnes Achieves Sustainability Certification
March 30, 2018
Greenhouse Supervisor Michael Barnes has been certified by the American Society of Agronomy as a Sustainability Specialist. In order to...
Sad News: Death of Prof. Nicholas Gillham
March 23, 2018
The Department of Biology is saddened to report the death of Professor Nicholas Gillham on March 19, 2018. Gillham received his Ph.D. from...
Rausher to be President of the Society for the Study of Evolution
February 19, 2018
The Society for the Study of Evolution has elected Prof. Mark Rausher President for the year 2019. Congratulations! In addition, Peng...
Patrick Green receives Mentoring Award
February 02, 2018
Graduate student Patrick Green has received the Dean's Award for Excellence in Mentoring for 2018! Congratulations Patrick! He is one of...
BioGrads Win 7 Sigma Xi Grants!
January 04, 2018
Congratulations to our BioGrads who have won an astonishing 7 Sigma Xi Grants in Aid of Research! Sigma Xi has made grants in aid of...
Duke Research Blog Profiles Kathleen Pryer
January 04, 2018
The Duke Research Blog has published a brief portrait of Professor Kathleen Pryer's journey into the world of ferns, from a field trip...
Biology Bootcamp Rebooted
December 06, 2017
The number of Ph.D. graduates in biological sciences continues to increase, while the number of tenure-track positions available is...
Tom Mitchell-Olds Named a AAAS Fellow
November 21, 2017
Prof. Tom Mitchell-Olds has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for 2017. Congratulations, Tom...
Manos, McVay et al. reveal origins of white and red oaks
October 19, 2017
Paul Manos and John McVay have joined with Andrew Hipp at the Morton Arboretum and other colleagues from the University of Minnesota and...
Sherryl Broverman Honored by Kappa Alpha Theta
September 28, 2017
Associate Professor of the Practice Sherryl Broverman has been selected by Kappa Alpha Theta sorority as one of its 2016-2017 Outstanding...
NSF awards major grant to Jon Shaw!
September 20, 2017
Prof. Jon Shaw has won a Dimensions of Biodiversity Award from the National Science Foundation. The Program "links functional, genetic and...
Laura Bagge's Trip in ALVIN the Submarine
August 04, 2017
Graduate student Laura Bagge (Johnsen Lab) went to a most unusual spot for her field work last summer--the edge of the continental shelf...
Patek Collaborates on Mechanics of Fungal Spores
August 04, 2017
Prof. Sheila Patek is a co-author on a recently published paper exploring the mechanics of fungal spores (“Asymmetric drop coalescence...
Nijhout Lab Brings Insects to Perkins Library
July 21, 2017
Graduate students Kenneth McKenna and Rick Gawne have brought some of the Nijhout lab's many specimens to the atrium of Perkins Library,...
Emily Yang Receives JBC/Herb Tabor Young Investigator Award!
July 07, 2017
Graduate student Emily Yang received a JBC/Herb Tabor Young Investigator Award at the 2017 International Conference on Arabidopsis Research...