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In this issue:
- Save the Date for Evolution 2019
- AIBS Congressional Visits Day Grants: due Jan. 28
- GREG Lewontin Early Award Deadline: February 15
- New SSE Blog for Evolutionary Biology Community
- New Faculty Profile: Emily Sessa and Ricardo Mallarino
- SSE Sponsorship Highlight: Huxley Award recipient Katie Grogan
Evolution 2019: Save the Date!
Mark your calendars for Evolution 2019 in Providence, RI on June 21-25. Meeting registration and talk/poster submissions will open in February. (Please note: this year we return to the model in which abstracts are accepted on a first-come, first-served basis). You can view hotel information here. Dorm information will be posted in the coming weeks. Stay tuned for more updates!
AIBS Congressional Visits Day Grants
The SSE Public Policy Committee is pleased to offer grants to SSE members to attendscience communication and advocacy training held by the American Institute for Biological Sciences (AIBS) on March 25-27 in Washington, DC. In addition to the training, participants will speak with their elected congressional representatives during meetings organized by AIBS. Scientists and graduate students who are interested in communicating the importance of federal investments in scientific research and education to lawmakers are encouraged to participate in this valuable workshop. Funding will cover economy travel and reasonable lodging. To apply, please complete this application before January 28, 2019. Read statements from last year’s funded participants here.
GREG R.C. Lewontin Early Awards – Proposals due Feb. 15
The GREG – R.C. Lewontin Early Awards are to assist students in the early stages of their Ph.D. programs by enabling them to collect preliminary data (to pursue additional sources of support) or to enhance the scope of their research beyond current funding limits (e.g. by visiting additional field sites, or working at other labs). Awards will be made up to $2500. Proposals will be due February 15. Learn more and apply here.
New SSE Blog for Evolutionary Biology Community
We’re excited to announce plans for a new SSE blog to begin in February. This blog is intended to serve as both a resource and a platform for our diverse community of evolutionary biologists. Captaining this endeavor is our new Blog Editor Fellow, Dr. Sasha Mushegian. Sasha is a postdoctoral fellow at Georgetown University, where she’s working on a project on population genomics of invasive mosquitoes. She has previous experience doing editorial and communications work for nonprofit scientific societies in the Washington, DC area. She says: “I was drawn to the ecology and evolution field in part because it has a long tradition of great writing; my formative years reading Rachel Carson and Stephen Jay Gould started a lifelong interest in hearing what scientists had to say. I’m looking forward to hearing from all of you!” Welcome to the team, Sasha!
New Faculty Profiles: Emily Sessa and Ricardo Mallarino
The SSE New Faculty Profile series highlights and introduces up-and-coming PIs in SSE. This month we highlight Dr. Emily Sessa and Dr. Ricardo Mallarino.
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Dr. Sessa is an assistant professor at the University of Florida studying the evolutionary and ecological processes that shape plant diversity. Read her full profile here. |
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Dr. Mallarino is an assistant professor at Princeton University studying the genetic and developmental mechanisms driving the evolution of body form and structure in vertebrates. Read his full profile here. |
SSE Sponsorship Highlight: 2018 Huxley Award Winner
Last year, the SSE Education and Outreach Committee awarded the T.H. Huxley Award toDr. Katie Grogan and colleagues Dr. Teresa W. Lee and Dr. Justine Liepkalns, who developed an educational activity for teaching evolutionary mechanisms. Winners of this award are provided with support to present on behalf of the Society for the Study of Evolution at the annual meeting of the National Association of Biology Teachers (NABT). Continue reading to hear more from Dr. Grogan:
“My colleagues and I won the 2018 T. H. Huxley award from SSE for a student-centered, active learning approach we developed and published using sticky notes to teach evolutionary mechanisms of natural selection, gene flow, population bottlenecks, and genetic drift. Through the generous SSE sponsorship, I was able to present this activity at the 2018 annual National Association of Biology Teachers (NABT) Conference. The NABT conference, held this year in San Diego, CA in early November, brings together hundreds of biology teachers who teach in K-12 and college classrooms across the USA. During my hands-on workshop, nearly 60 teachers performed the activity and more reported interest in using the activity in their classrooms. Thanks to SSE, we were able to generate enthusiasm among biology teachers for the activity and recruit participants to help us test its effectiveness in the future.”
Sincerely,
Mark Rausher
SSE President
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