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Sherryl Broverman Receives William E. Bennett Award
July 09, 2015
Sherryl Broverman has been honored with the William E. Bennett Award for Extraordinary Contributions to Citizen Science. The Award is...
BioGrad Patrick Green Shows How Shrimp Punch
June 25, 2015
Patrick Green (Patek Lab) presented research on territorial mantis shrimp at the June 2015 meeting of the Animal Behavior Society in...
Island Rodents Take On Nightmarish Proportions
June 22, 2015
Researchers have analyzed size data for rodents worldwide to distinguish the truly massive mice and giant gerbils from the regular-sized...
Dual Internal Clocks Keep Plant Defenses on Schedule
June 22, 2015
Time management isn’t just important for busy people -- it’s critical for plants, too. A Duke University study shows how two biological...
Model Could Help Counteract Poisoning from Popular Painkiller
June 22, 2015
New research could help reverse deadly side effects caused by excessive doses of the drug acetaminophen, the major ingredient in Tylenol...
Patek Lab Wins Department of Defense Funding
June 22, 2015
The Patek Lab has won funding through the Department of Defense program "Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative." This highly-...
Schmid Lab Featured in NSF Blog
June 22, 2015
Amy Schmid's lab recently published a study of oxidative stress in Archaea in PLoS Genetics, "A Regulatory Hierarchy Controls the Dynamic...
Magwene Lab Unveils Genomes of Yeast Strains
June 22, 2015
The Magwene Lab, in collaboration with John McCusker's Lab (Molecular Genetics and Microbiology) has published the genomes of 93 different...
Biology Professors Take on Duke Leadership Roles
June 22, 2015
In the 2015-2016 academic year, Prof. Philip Benfey will chair the provost's advisory committee on Appointments Promotion and Tenure (APT)...
Study Reveals How Eastern U.S. Forests Came to Be
May 20, 2015
Plant hunters traveling between North America and Asia in the 1800s noticed a bizarre pattern: collections they brought back from China and...
Duke Biologists Win Mercer Award
June 22, 2015
Prof. Emily Bernhardt led a team of current and former Duke ecologists in writing a paper which has now received the Mercer Award from the...
Brooks Teaching Award Goes to Eric Spana
June 22, 2015
Congratulations to Eric Spana, who has received the David and Janet Vaughn Brooks Award for Teaching in the Natural Sciences. The award...
Duke Inducts New Members into Phi Beta Kappa
May 08, 2015
The nation’s oldest academic honor society inducted 166 Duke University juniors, seniors and alumni in Reynolds Theater on Thursday, May...
Congratulations to Biology's Graduating Seniors!
June 22, 2015
The Biology Department proudly announces Commencement prizes: • The Horn Award – Matthew Pun • The Rast Award – Cassidy...
Duke Announces 2015 Distinguished Professors
May 01, 2015
Duke University has awarded distinguished professorships to 19 members of its faculty. Another four were inducted into the Bass Society of...
Student Composer Meshes Two Musical Traditions
April 30, 2015
Harish Eswaran spent his senior year at Duke bringing music to life. For his senior project, the biology and music major composed his...
Emily Bernhardt Receives Humboldt Foundation Research Prize
June 22, 2015
Germany's Alexander von Humboldt Foundation has awarded a Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Prize to Professor Emily Bernhardt in...
Sheena Faherty Receives AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellowship
April 28, 2015
Sheena Faherty has received a AAAS Mass Media Fellowship for the summer of 2015. The American Association for the Advancement of Science...
Biograds Score with the Graduate School!
April 22, 2015
Congratulations to these Biology students who have received awards from the Graduate School! International Dissertation Research Travel...
American Society of Naturalist Student Research Awards
April 10, 2015
Jennifer Coughlin (Willis Lab) and Brenna Forester have received Student Research Awards from the American Society of Naturalists. The...
Biograds DDIG it!
April 10, 2015
Six Biology graduate students have won Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grants from the National Science Foundation. Congratulations are...
Schmid Lab gets Energy Initiative Funding
April 09, 2015
Prof. Amy Schmid's lab has been awarded funding from the Energy Initiative to study metabolic pathways in Archaea, single-celled...
Sheila Patek Wins Guggenheim Fellowship
April 09, 2015
The Biology Department proudly announces that The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has awarded a fellowship to Prof. Sheila Patek...
Biograds win NSF pre-doc fellowships!
April 08, 2015
Jennifer Gredler (Noor Lab), Kevin Lehner (Benfey Lab), Leslie Slota (McClay Lab) and Allan Castillo (matriculating, Rausher Lab) have all...