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Jeanne Altmann receives BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award
Feb. 10, 2023

The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Ecology and Conservation Biology has gone in this fifteenth edition to Susan Alberts, Jeanne Altmann and Marlene Zuk “for their outstanding contributions to the behavioral and evolutionary ecology of animals,” in the words of the award citation.

New Map of “Stopover Hotspots” Provides Insights for Conservation of Migratory Landbirds
Jan. 17, 2023

Fengyi Guo, EEB graduate student in the Wilcove laboratory, and colleagues demonstrated that forests provide the most important habitats for autumn migrants and that deciduous forest fragments in heavily deforested regions support especially high densities of migrants.

Every autumn, billions of birds migrate across the eastern U.S. en…

Simon Levin selected as Intercollegiate Biomathematics Alliance (IBA) Distinguished Senior Fellow
Dec. 22, 2022

The 2022 Distinguished Senior Fellowship is awarded to established senior scholars who have made outstanding scientific achievements, demonstrated a record of exceptional scientific contributions and active leadership in mathematical biology both as researchers and educators. This fellowship is…

Bryan Grenfell receives Kyoto Prize in Basic Sciences
July 26, 2022

Bryan Grenfell, Princeton University’s Kathryn Briger and Sarah Fenton Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Public Affairs, is one of three recipients of the 2022 Kyoto Prize. Grenfell, who studies the dynamics of infectious disease, was honored in the basic science category for his “development of an innovative methodology…

Stoddard named Schmidt Science Polymath
July 26, 2022

The Schmidt Science Polymath program makes long-term bets on recently tenured professors with remarkable track records, promising futures and a desire to explore interdisciplinary research. Each professor is awarded $500,000 per year for up to five years to explore new ideas across disciplines and use emerging technologies to test…

Simon Levin elected a member of Academia Europaea
July 26, 2022

Simon A. Levin has been elected a member of Academia Europaea (The Academy of Europe). The Academy was founded in 1988, on the initiative of the United Kingdom's Royal Society and other National Academies in Europe, and is the only Academy with individual membership from the Council of Europe states…

‘How things relate’: Dalehite and Irelan explored pairings in evolutionary biology for their senior thesis projects
June 2, 2022

Princeton senior Katherine Irelan spent two months in summer 2021 walking the slopes of Hawaii Volcanoes National Park searching for specimens of the native shrub pūkiawe (Leptecophylla tameiameiae) for her senior-thesis research on how the plant allies with soil fungi to thrive in different environments and climates. Her work was inspired by…

McBride lab researches how mosquito brains encode human odor so they can seek us out
June 2, 2022

Mosquitoes. Bane of backyard picnics -- and deadly in Zika- and dengue-prone regions. Most of the world’s mosquitoes are opportunistic, willing to drink blood from any nearby source. But in some regions, the Aedes aegypti mosquitoes that carry Zika, dengue and yellow fever have evolved to bite humans almost…

Claire Thompson '20 wins gold medal at 2022 Olympics
Feb. 28, 2022

Former EEB undergraduate and Simon Levin advisee Claire Thompson ’20 won a gold medal in Women's Ice Hockey at the 2022 Olympics in Beijing.  Claire set an Olympic record, scoring 13 points as a defender.

For Claire Thompson’s Olympic profile,…

Simon Levin receives BBVA Frontiers of Knowledge Award
Feb. 4, 2022

This fourteenth edition of the BBVA Foundation's Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Ecology and Conservation Biology has gone to the ecologists Lenore Fahrig, Simon Levin and Steward Pickett for incorporating the spatial dimension into ecosystem research, in the sense of landscape and its multiple scales, and bringing it to bear in the management…