Marina LaForgia, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Evolution and Ecology, in the lab of EVE faculty member Jennifer Gremer, has received the 2022 Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Mentoring Undergraduate Research. Congratulations to Marina! Read more about this award here.
First-Year Seminars provides a lab like environment for instructors to test out new course ideas. That was just the case in a winter 2022 course developed by the College of Biological Science’s Faculty member Laci Gerhart-Barley and PhD candidate Hannah Nelson, “Spineless, Ignored, Misunderstood: Perceptions of Animal Diversity in the UCD Community”. A primary goal of the course was to help students break stereotypes in animal representation by studying animal diversity or lack thereof in media representation.
The UC Davis Academic Senate and the Academic Federation recently announced their annual awards given to members for exceptional research, teaching and mentoring, and public service - Sebastian Schreiber, professor, Department of Evolution and Ecology, College of Biological Sciences, was recognized.
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Congratulations to Dr. Jay Stachowicz, Professor and Department Chair, Department of Evolution and Ecology, for being elected as a 2021 American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellow.
EVE faculty members, Susan Lott, and Sebastian Schreiber, have received College of Biological Sciences (CBS) awards. Susan Lott received the 2020-2021 College of Biological Sciences Faculty Research Award. Sebastian Schreiber received the 2020-2021 CBS Faculty Teaching Award. Congratulations to both!
Naomi Murray, an undergraduate student in the Ecology, Evolution and Biodiversity major, working with EVE professor Dr. Jay Stachowicz, won the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research - Dean Keith Simonton Prize. The award recognizes outstanding undergraduate students for their research, scholarship or creative activity tied to any academic subject and performed while at UC Davis.