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Wild hummingbirds see a broad range of colors humans can only imagine
June 16, 2020

To find food, dazzle mates, escape predators and navigate diverse terrain, birds rely on their excellent color vision. “Humans are color-blind compared to birds and many other animals,” said Mary Caswell Stoddard.

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Nicolas Choquette-Levy in the Levin Lab receives 2020 Walbridge Fund Graduate Award
June 16, 2020

The Walbridge Fund is administered by PEI, and “provides research funding to Princeton University graduate students pursuing innovative research on climate science, energy solutions, environmental policy or, more broadly, on other environmental topics.” 

Nicolas submitted a proposal to fund a research project on surveying smallholder…

Small-scale dairy farmers are struggling across the U.S.
June 5, 2020

However, in New Jersey they’ve developed a model that keeps their products and their customers local. As the pandemic’s effects on food systems unfold, local farms offer insights for creating a resilient food future. 

Photo credit: Richard Byma from By-Acre farms in Sussex County, New Jersey, tends to his Holstein herd. Neville Elder…

Jeanne Altmann elected to American Philosophical Society
May 20, 2020

Jeanne Altmann, the Eugene Higgins Professor of EEB, Emeritus, was inducted into APS’ biological sciences class. Altmann’s research deals with life history approaches to behavioral ecology and with nonexperimental research design. Most of her empirical work has focused on the baboons of Amboseli National Park, Kenya. Altmann joined the…

Senior Cole Morokhovich’s studies what hummingbirds could tell us about climate change
May 20, 2020

Princeton senior Cole Morokhovich still marvels at the possibility that his academic path may have come down to one five-minute window. Having come to Princeton with a focus on pre-medicine, he had taken most of the required courses and declared his major in chemical and biological engineering.

Robert M. "Bob" May, Lord May passes away at the age of 84
May 8, 2020
Robert M. May, who was a leading researcher, mentor and administrator at Princeton University for more than 15 years, passed away at the age of 84 in Oxford, U.K. on April 28, after a long illness.
Dylan Morris receives Princeton Teaching Award
April 17, 2020

Teaching awards honor those graduate students who have made a significant and exceptional contribution to undergraduate teaching. The selection committee for the awards consists of the deans in Academic Affairs as well as senior staff from the McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning. The selection committee we impressed by the quality of all…

Jonathan Levine is the 2020 recipient of the Ecological Society of America's MacArthur Award
April 17, 2020

Professor Jonathan Levine was awarded the Ecological Society of America’s Robert H. MacArthur Award, the society’s most prestigious mid-career accolade.  Jonathan is the 20th winner of the Award, which was established in 1983 in memory of the pioneer theoretical ecologist, Robert MacArthur, who spent his most productive years in our department…

Unchecked, COVID-19 could kill more than 50,000 in NJ, Princeton & Rutgers scientists say
April 17, 2020

Like all New Jerseyans, on March 21 we came under a lockdown order issued by Gov. Phil Murphy. As biomedical scientists and experts on public health and epidemiology, we appreciate the importance for all communities to follow his directive. Full compliance will slow the growing death rate -- but this will take at least a month and a half. That…