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March 12, 2019
The Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering is a private, nonprofit, public-service institution patterned after the National Academy of Sciences.  Its membership is...
Lonesome George
December 7, 2018
Lonesome George’s species may have died with him in 2012, but he and other giant tortoises of the Galapagos are still providing genetic clues to individual longevity through...
October 16, 2018
EEB and Peabody alumna Mary Caswell Stoddard is a recipient of the 2018 Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering.  
May 22, 2018
Katherine Mertes and Elizabeth Spriggs were co-awarded the John Spangler Nicholas Prize for the best dissertation by an EEB student this year.  They were recognized for their...
May 17, 2018
Valerie Morley won this year’s R.A. Fisher Prize for most outstanding PhD thesis paper, “Dynamics of molecular evolution in RNA virus populations depend on sudden versus...