Peter Todd receives Mentor Recognition award (UCSD)

Peter todd received some pleasant news from University of California at San Diego recently. Former student Huang Danwei nominated him for UCSD graduate school’s Mentor Recognition Award, having had a “strong, positive academic influence.”
Sweet practice by UCSD, eh? Congrats Peter!

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Janice and Lainie, the new BEJC coordinators for 2008!

29 Feb 2008 – Qie Lan (a.k.a. “Lainie”) & Janice Lee of the Conservation Biology Lab have taken over the running of the Biodiversity & Ecology Journal Club from the 2007 coordinators, Laura-Marie Yap and Eunice Tan of the Spider Lab.
Laura and Eunice who held the fort since Jan 2007 handed over the reins [...]

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“Women who make microscopes look sexy”

March issue of Her World on newstands – Much excitement ensues among local scientific community!
Five women scientists were featured in Her World this month, including Lisa Ng (Senior Scientist at the Singapore Immunology Network, A*Star), Rosemary Tan (CEO, Veredus Laboratories) as well as three members from our Biodiversity Crew.
They are Joelle from Ecology and Systematics [...]

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Navjot Sodhi awarded the Hrdy Visiting Fellowship in Conservation Biology

The Hrdy Visiting Fellowship in Conservation Biology for the 2008-09 academic year has been awarded to Professor Navjot Sodhi of the National University of Singapore.

About the award – The Sarah and Daniel Hrdy Fellowsip in Conservation Biology serves to support the study of conservation biology within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University. [...]

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Huang Danwei secures a Young Explorers grant from National Geographic

Chou Loke Ming writes:
“Danwei who is over at Scripps on the NUS-Overseas Graduate Scholarship was successful in securing a Young Explorers grant (US$5000)from the National Geographic Society’s Committee for Research and Exploration in support of his proposed project “Biogeography of the Faviidae family of hard corals in the Indo-Pacific.”
This will expand the research that he [...]

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Paper selected for Faculty of 1000 Biology

—–Original Message—–
From: Faculty of 1000 Biology
Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 11:34 PM
To: Peter Alan, Todd
Subject: Your article has been evaluated for Faculty of 1000 Biology
Dear Dr Todd,
I thought you would pleased to hear that one of your papers (Oikos 2007) has been selected for Faculty of 1000 Biology and evaluated by Andrew Baird [link].

Faculty [...]

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Spatial planning for a sustainable Singapore, 1-day conference, 03 Apr 2008.

The Singapore Institute of Planners presents a “1 Day Conference cum Book Launch – “Spatial Planning for a Sustainable Singapore.”
Thu 03 Apr 2008: 9am – 5.30pm at the Singapore Botanic Garden Function Hall, 1 Cluny Road (off Bukit Timah Road).
“This 1 day conference involves a panel of planning experts who will explore the concept of [...]

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