News & Events
Prof. Livingstone receives Lifetime Achievement Award
Each year, the International Paleolimnological Association bestows its "Lifetime Achievement Award" to honor a senior colleague for their career contribution to palaeolimnology. This year, our own Prof. Daniel Livingstone will receive this prestigious award at the annual meeting in Guadalajara, Mexico, Dec. 15-18, 2009. Congratulations, Dan! Dan Livingstone is James B. Duke Professor Emeritus of Biology and came to Duke in 1956.
Prof. Hunt Willard receives prestigious award.
The American Society of Human Genetics honored Prof. Huntington F. Willard with the 2009 Allan Award on Oct. 23, 2009. "Dr. Willard is an outstanding scientific leader, having made seminal findings in the understanding of chromosome structure and behavior. ... Dr. Willard leads a model organization in genetics – the Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy at Duke University – as well as demonstrating the importance of outreach by teaching undergraduate courses at Duke. Hunt Willard is an outstanding example of a model 'citizen-scientist' in the human genetics field."
Dr. Julie Reynolds expands her service roles.
Dr. Julie Reynolds, Lecturer, was recently elected to a two-year term as Chair of the Ecological Society of America’s education section. She was also chosen by the American Society for Microbiology to be one of 21 Biology Scholars in the Research Residency Program. "The Research Residency seeks biologists who have been trained in effective teaching strategies for biology education and are curious about student learning."
The Vascular Plant Herbarium
Duke Today (issue of October 2, 2009) features the Vascular Plant Herbarium and its new facilities in the Phytotron. With the help of funding from the NSF, Duke has provided a secure, climate-controlled environment for an invaluable resource of some 400,000 specimens of flowering plants from all over the world.
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