College of Arts and Sciences

Dr Robin Snyder is the recipient of the American Society of Naturalists Presidential Award for best paper published in the American Naturalists in 2016. The paper: "We happy few: Using structured population models to identify the decisive events in the lives of exceptional individuals" can be found here: http://amnat.org/an/newpapers/AugSnyder.html

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The Department of Biology's Dr. Rich Drushel was this year's recipient of the Wittke Award. The Carl F. Wittke Award was established in 1971 in honor of Carl Wittke, a former faculty member, dean and vice president of Western Reserve University. The Wittke Award is presented each year to two...

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Three undergraduates working under the mentorship of Biology Department faculty won awards at the Fall 2016 CWRU-wide undergraduate research forum, Intersections.  Mahima Devarajan in Dr. Radhika Atit’s lab and Alexandra Faidiga, in Dr. Jean Burns’ lab, tied for first place in the Natural Sciences Poster Competition.  Erin Conway in...

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CWRU Biology Department doctoral student Hilary Rollins was awarded the Frederick H. Stoye Award in Ecology and Ethology at the 2016 Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists for her presentation "How do climate-change induced phenological shifts alter terrestrial competition between two amphibians?"  Hilary described the results of research that she...

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