Women in Science

Nalini (EvoLab), Joelle (EcoLab) and Karen (MarBio Lab) will be featured in the March 2008 issue of Her World Magazine.

Nalini’s having her photoshoot in the insectary now! [posted during the shoot]

Check Evolab door for more details (we WILL paste the entire issue of Her World on the door).

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Teaching awards for Biodiversity T. A.s

Teaching Assistants Nalini Puniamoorthy, Ng Ngan Kee and Zeehan Jaafar receive their teaching awards at the Faculty of Science Faculty Awards 2008 ceremony last week.

Congratulations to the three TAs for maintaining their high standard of undergraduate teaching!

Also receiving honours from the Faculty of Science (FOS) were Li Daiqin for the FOS Outstanding Scientist Award 2007 and Rudolf Meier for the Faculty Teaching Excellence Award 2006/07

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Conservation with Sense (letter in Science)

Science has a letter by one of our instructors, Matthew Lim. The longer version of this article has been commissioned by Trends in Ecology & Evolution. – Navjot Sodhi

Read it online: Lim, MLM, N. Sodhi, JA Endler, 2008. Conservation with Sense. Science, 319 (5861): 281.

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Reuben’s paper in Biology Letters highlighted in Nature News

Hi all,

One of our graduate student’s (Rueben’s) paper in Biology Letters was featured by Nature.

Best,

Navjot

“Snail shell takes a weird turn,” by Nicola Jones. Nature News, 08 Jan 2008. She reports on Clements, R., Liew, T.-S., Vermeulen, J. J. & Schilthuizen, M. Biol. Lett. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2007.0602 (2008)

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New Year staff appointments and promotions

W.e.f. 1 Jan 2008

New staff
David Bickford joins the department as an Assistant Professor.

Promotions
Instructors Peter Todd and Tan Heok Hui to Lecturer and T. A. Ng Ngan Kee to Instructor.

Congratulations everyone!

Heok Hui and Ngan Kee after we congratulated them. Thanks to Joelle Lai for the picture.

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