Recognition goes to Associate Professor Dr. Sixue Chen who his being named a Colonel Allan R. and Margaret G. Crow Term Professor! Dr. Chen, has also received a CLAS term professorship for 2015-2016. Congratulations Sixue! Well Done!
Joining the ranks of Theodosius Dobzhansky, George Gaylord Simpson, et al., Jack Ewel has been elected as an Honorary Fellow of ATBC! This is the highest honor conveyed by the society, and recognizes long, sustained service to tropical biology. Jack served as Director of the U.S. Forest Service’s Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry, but has also […]
In this invited “Soapbox Essay“, Eminent Scholar Robert D. Holt explains how we arrive at explanations for scientific phenomenon using climate change as an example. He uses a metaphor of “collecting colored eggs” to make his point about synthesizing strains of evidence. The journal liked the metaphor so much they called for a cover photograph— […]
Biology’s Jack Putz and Claudia Romero organized a Systematic Reviews of Forestry & Landscapes Management Workshop in collaboration with the Florida Climate Institute and the REDD+ Forest Policy & Economics Working Group. The workshop’s goals were to use a hands-on approach, participants will be guided through the stages of preparing a systematic review to support […]
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Grad student Jake Ferguson and Biology faculty member José Miguel Ponciano recently had an article appear in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences http://www.pnas.org/content/112/9/2782.abstract “Environmental stochasticity” is an important theoretical concept in Ecology that embodies the recognition that, over time, the environmental conditions for animal population growth vary widely, often in unpredictable ways. Here […]
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Mitosis, the precise division of the nucleus, is required for multicellular life. Unsurprisingly then, mitosis has remained essentially the same over approximately two billion years of evolution. However, the individual components involved in mitosis have not. For example, in order for the chromosomes to segregate properly during nuclear division, they require a scaffold known as […]