News

May 1, 2019
On April 30, 2019, Paul Turner was elected to the the National Academy of Sciences (NAS).    The NAS is a private, non-profit society of distinguished scholars. Established...
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...