Graduate student Prashant Sharma received the Willi Hennig Award for the best oral presentation by a student at the May 2010 meeting of the Willi Hennig Society. The international organization promotes the field of phylogenetic systematics.

A video about the Assembling the Tree of Life (AToL) Initiative, featured in the HMNH’s exhibit EVOLUTION, is available to view online. The film includes interviews with E.O. Wilson, Jim Hanken, Gonzalo Giribet, and Brian Farrell.

OEB undergrad Jeremy Hsu blogs about his spring break field trip to Costa Rica with OEB 167: Herpetology, taught by Jim Hanken and Jonathan Losos. Posted April 06, 2010

Farish Jenkins received the GSAS 2010 Everett Mendelsohn Excellence in Mentoring Award. The award honors faculty for efforts in supporting, encouraging and promoting their graduate students' research, education, professional and personal development, and career plans. April, 2010, read more about the award.

Davis and Losos labs identify link between climate change and invasive species in Thoreau's woods. Read stories in Boston Globe, WBUR (public radio), Harvard Gazette, Harvard Magazine.