News 
The News archive includes notices about publications by NESCent researchers, departures and arrivals, and other noteworthy events at NESCent. Information about seminars and meetings may be found in the Calendar.
All news ( found: 248, current page: 1 )- Bring evolution to your school/community for Darwin Day! Deadline Nov. 27 23-Sep-2013
- HS & community college science teachers are invited to apply for a travel award to attend NABT 26-Aug-2013
- Apply by June 10 for the 2013 GMOD Summer School, July 19-23 in Durham, NC 19-Apr-2013
- Two grad students win travel awards to attend the "World Congress on Evolution III" in the Galapagos in June 18-Apr-2013
- Apply for an undergraduate travel award to attend Evolution 2013 this June in Utah 01-Mar-2013
- Are you a biologist at a minority-serving institution? Apply for a travel award to attend Evolution 2013 26-Feb-2013
- Graduate students: Apply for a travel award to attend "World Congress on Evolution III" in the Galapagos Islands, June 2013 26-Feb-2013
- Give your thoughts on the GMOD project and win a personal DNA test ! 11-Feb-2013
- Apply now to participate in a June 10-14 meeting on life in houses & how to improve it 09-Jan-2013
- NEW: Apply for open access publishing support funds 20-Dec-2012
- Measuring scholarly impact beyond the library and the lab 30-Oct-2012
- Now accepting proposals for sabbaticals, working groups, graduate students and meetings at the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent) 16-May-2012
- Applications now open for postdoctoral fellowships in evolutionary biology and related fields at the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center 15-May-2012
- Enter your video for screening at Evolution 2012 and you may win $$ to attend the meeting of your choice. Deadline July 29 04-May-2012
- Nominate yourself or a colleague for the 2012 Evolution Education Award 22-Feb-2012
- Celebrate Darwin Day at the NC Museum of Natural Sciences 08-Feb-2012
- Learn about allergies, cancer, and vanished evolutionary biologist Margie Profet, Thurs. 11/3 at 12noon 28-Oct-2011
- Bring evolution to your school/community for Darwin Day! Deadline Oct. 31 25-Oct-2011
- Explore how evolution can help doctors understand and treat disease 05-Oct-2011
- Coming soon: "Doing science in the open," Oct. 4 at 4pm 20-Sep-2011
- Looking for a postdoc in computational biology or bioinformatics? Phenoscape may be looking for you 30-Aug-2011
- NEScent welcomes proposals in K-12 evolution education for underrepresented minorities. Apply by Sept. 1 or Jan. 1 10-Aug-2011
- Job opening in user interface design & web application development (Deadline Aug.15) 28-Jul-2011
- Submit your proposal for a meeting or working group on evolution and the social sciences 12-Jul-2011
- Congrats to the winners of the NESCent evolution film festival! 22-Jun-2011
- Apply by July 10 to be a NESCent journalist-in-residence 17-Jun-2011
- Going to Evolution in Norman? Come to the Evolution film fest Mon 6/27 to view and vote on your favorites 16-Jun-2011
- Congratulations to the newest award recipients for 2011 27-Apr-2011
- Call for mentors at Evolution 2011 18-Apr-2011
- Call for proposals: next deadlines in July 15-Apr-2011
- Submit your best evolution-themed video for the NESCent video competition! 13-Apr-2011
- Hear the amazing story of Darwin's finches via legendary biologists Peter and Rosemary Grant, Mon. 4/11 7pm 10-Apr-2011
- Calling all student programmers: Apply by April 8th for Google Summer of Code program 06-Apr-2011
- Still time to apply to a 3-day symposium for early-career female biologists; deadline April 15 04-Apr-2011
- Register now for quantitative genetics workshop, Aug 8-13 in Durham, NC. Deadline May15 14-Mar-2011
- Got data? Register now for practical computing for biologists, June 6-15 in Raleigh, NC. Application deadline Apr15 14-Mar-2011
- Calling all faculty at minority-serving institutions: Apply now for $ to attend Evolution 2011. Deadline 3/31 09-Mar-2011
- Undergraduates are invited to apply for a travel award to attend Evolution 2011 in Norman, OK. Deadline extended to March 15 09-Mar-2011
- Now accepting proposals for evolutionary medicine curriculum development; deadline April 1 08-Mar-2011
- Job opening in user interface design and web application development 03-Mar-2011
- Get a grip on your data: Register now for the 2011 GMOD meeting, Mar 5-6 21-Feb-2011
- Showing students in rural areas of the US that science is cool 21-Feb-2011
- Apply now for a 3-day symposium for early career female biologists 16-Feb-2011
- Thinking about developing evolutionary medicine materials for students? NESCent welcomes your proposals 04-Feb-2011
- Celebrate Darwin's birthday with a talk & guided tour through the NC Botanical Garden; Sat Feb.12; 2-4pm 18-Jan-2011
- Could life evolve in outerspace? NASA's Lynn Rothschild to give Darwin Day keynote in Raleigh Feb.12 18-Jan-2011
- Learn about fellowships, courses & more in our winter newsletter 13-Jan-2011
- Publish your data! Two-minute video shows you how it's done 06-Jan-2011
- Evolution blog contest and travel award winners announced 14-Dec-2010
- Bring molecular evolution research to your classroom 08-Dec-2010
- Get a grip on your data: Attend GMOD Spring Training, March 2011. Apply by Jan 7 07-Dec-2010
- Less than 2 weeks to apply to be an evolution journalist-in-residence (Deadline 1/15) 05-Jan-2011
- Paid internship in web design and development 08-Nov-2010
- Tune in Fri. 11/5 for a live webcast on molecular evolution 03-Nov-2010
- Congratulations to the newest award recipients for 2010 02-Nov-2010
- Proposals for Postdoctoral Fellowships due Dec.1 26-Oct-2010
- Looking for support for a sabbatical or meeting? 26-Oct-2010
- Now offering one-semester graduate fellowships 26-Oct-2010
- Molecular evolution symposium to be webcast live Nov.5 18-Oct-2010
- Win a travel award for best evolution-themed blog post 04-Oct-2010
- Read about new initiatives and upcoming events in our Fall 2010 newsletter 22-Sep-2010
- Looking for support for a sabbatical, grad student, postdoc, or meeting? Next deadline Dec.1 31-Aug-2010
- How did insect societies come to be? Sabbatarian Jim Hunt weighs in for The New York Times 31-Aug-2010
- Congratulations to the newest award recipients for 2010 18-Aug-2010
- NESCent welcomes your proposals! Next deadline for short-term visitors is Sept.1 10-Aug-2010
- Calling all programmers: Join us for the GMOD Tools for Evolutionary Biology Hackathon, Nov 8-12. Apply by Aug 25 02-Aug-2010
- Phenoscape featured on the cover of Systematic Biology 17-Jun-2010
- Call for full proposals for NESCent courses (due July 10) 12-Jun-2010
- Desperate female spiders fight by different rules 07-Jun-2010
- David Sloan Wilson explains why evolution is of consequence to everyone 01-Jun-2010
- Learn about new initiatives & upcoming events in the NESCent newsletter 24-May-2010
- Time to get serious about preserving & reusing scientific data 20-May-2010
- Calling all high school teachers! Sign up for a 3-day workshop on teaching evolution 16-May-2010
- Six students accepted for 2010 Google Summer of Code 15-May-2010
- NESCent scientists trade their laptops for hand lenses and hiking boots at the 2010 spring retreat 13-May-2010
- Congratulations to the newest award recipients for 2010 01-May-2010
- Learn why baboons debunk the myth of deadbeat dads: Susan Alberts @ Broad St. Cafe, May 11 7pm 30-Apr-2010
- Share your ideas for evolution courses 26-Apr-2010
- Life history database aids wild primate studies 22-Apr-2010
- NESCent welcomes your research proposals! Next deadline July 10 21-Apr-2010
- Congratulations to our faculty travel award winners 16-Apr-2010
- Ever wonder how birds learn their songs? Join us this Fri. for a special seminar by Erich Jarvis 12-Apr-2010
- Meet NESCent's new Director on this week's science radio show 31-Mar-2010
- TreeBASE is back: Phylogenetic database completely rebuilt 29-Mar-2010
- Visiting scholar Claire Williams looks at conifer reproduction through the lens of evolution in her new book 22-Mar-2010
- Now accepting applications for a training coordinator & bioinformatics project manager 22-Mar-2010
- Next deadline for short-term visitor proposals is April 1 02-Mar-2010
- Calling all faculty at minority-serving institutions: Apply now for $ to attend Evolution 2010 in Portland 02-Mar-2010
- Former Director Cliff Cunningham finds surprising new branches on the arthropod family tree 25-Feb-2010
- Hazkani-Covo surveys 85 genomes for 'molecular poltergeists' 15-Feb-2010
- Going to the Evolution meetings in Portland in June? Register for new satellite conference on informatics 15-Feb-2010
- NC Museum of Natural Sciences to host Darwin Day, Sat. 2/13 11-Feb-2010
- NESCent welcomes Allen Rodrigo as new Director 08-Feb-2010
- NESCent postdoc debunks old ideas about the spread of grassland plants 08-Feb-2010
- Apply now for GMOD summer school, 6-9 May, Durham NC 31-Jan-2010
- 30 million yrs without sex? Logsdon weighs in on the long dry spell in bdelloid rotifers 29-Jan-2010
- Medical students may soon be tested on evolution 26-Jan-2010
- NESCent welcomes science bloggers Jeremy Yoder and Christie Wilcox 15-Jan-2010
- Tune in Sun 1/10 to see NESCent's Gregor Yanega on PBS 08-Jan-2010
- Help NSF understand how scientists preserve, manage & share data by participating in a brief survey 05-Jan-2010
- What does 'synthesis' mean today? NESCent scientists weigh in 18-Dec-2009
- Learn about opportunities and events in our December newsletter 17-Dec-2009
- Blogging contest and travel award winners announced 15-Dec-2009
- Temperature provides a framework for understanding how life adapts, says Kingsolver in the Dec. issue of AmNat 11-Dec-2009
- 12/15: Learn about life on the deep sea floor with NESCent's Craig McClain 08-Dec-2009
- Latest issue of 'Evolution: Education and Outreach' is now online 02-Dec-2009
- Scientists, physicians urge medical schools to teach evolution 30-Nov-2009
- Museum lecture traces historic Beagle voyage, Tues. 11/24 21-Nov-2009
- NESCent helps to build a global digital data network for biology and the earth sciences 19-Nov-2009
- See the entries for the NESCent blogging competition 10-Nov-2009
- Nov16 panel explores intersection of public policy, economics, & evolution 10-Nov-2009
- Congratulations to the newest award recipients for 2010 05-Nov-2009
- Podcast explores the incredible biodiversity of Madagascar 05-Nov-2009
- Follow Dryad updates & events in a new blog 05-Nov-2009
- Phylogenetics Standards Interest Group is now official 20-Oct-2009
- NESCent welcomes new postdoctoral fellow Juan Santos 09-Oct-2009
- Some branches of the tree of life are more prone to extinction 01-Oct-2009
- Blog about evolution & win $ to attend NC's science communication conf. 30-Sep-2009
- NESCent postdoc Stephen Smith is featured in USA Today 25-Sep-2009
- Check out the fall newsletter for news about funding, research, and events 23-Sep-2009
- How did cooperation evolve? Sabbatarian Jim Hunt weighs in for Science 22-Sep-2009
- Tune in to a free webinar on evolution in extreme environments 17-Sep-2009
- If sharing data is so good, why aren't more researchers doing it? 10-Sep-2009
- Darwin Lecture 9/29: Learn about the evolution of life on land with paleontologist Dale Russell 21-Aug-2009
- Postdoc Carlos Botero weighs in on sex, smarts, and evolution 19-Aug-2009
- Interested in using evolution as a framework to teach biology? 12-Aug-2009
- Male & female baboons form platonic friendships, reports Assoc. Director Susan Alberts 10-Aug-2009
- Statistical innovation accounts for evolutionary bias in meta-analysis 06-Aug-2009
- New family tree proposed for all holometabolous insects 05-Aug-2009
- NESCent welcomes new postdocs Julie Meachen-Samuels, Liam Revell, and Eric Schuettpelz 03-Aug-2009
- NESCent looks forward to hearing more about island birds from new postdoc Gregor Yanega. Welcome! 27-Jul-2009
- European Science Foundation hosts meeting to explore intersection of evolution and chemistry 16-Jul-2009
- Madagascar's magnificent biodiversity 08-Jul-2009
- NESCent postdoc Eric Schuettpelz deciphers the fern family tree 02-Jul-2009
- Podcast -- Coping with Climate Change 04-May-2009
- Humans, baboons ward off malaria in similar way, says Susan Alberts 26-Jun-2009
- Last chance to apply for phyloinformatics course in Portugal 25-Jun-2009
- Q&A on deep-sea biodiversity with NESCent's Craig McClain 22-Jun-2009
- Summer course in computational phyloinformatics now offered in Europe 09-Jul-2009
- Joe Hereford's Paper in the American Naturalist 09-Mar-2009
- Sex, Speciation and Fishy Physics 02-Mar-2009
- Craig McClain's paper from the Body Size Working Group 18-Mar-2009
- Carl Zimmer's talk available online 12-Feb-2009
- Happy Birthday, Darwin! 02-Feb-2009
- Party Like It's 1859 02-Feb-2009
- Lauren McCall's paper in Cross-Cultural Research 02-Feb-2009
- Stephen Smith's paper in BMC 11-Feb-2009
- Carl Zimmer Presentation at NCMNS 12-Feb-2009
- Stephen Smith's Paper in American Naturalist 02-Feb-2009
- NESCent scientists' work in NY Times 10-Feb-2009
- Podcast of Elliott Sober on Darwin's Theory 03-Feb-2009
- Craig McClain joins NESCent as Assistant Director for Science 04-Dec-2008
- Evolution Month on the Year of Science site 02-Feb-2009
- Dr. Richard Mayden visting NESCent 29-Jan-2009
- Mohamed Noor in Duke Research 02-Feb-2009
- NESCent Hackathon on Evolutionary Database Interoperability 26-Jan-2009
- Paula Spaeth's paper in the Journal of Biogeography 02-Feb-2009
- Lauren McCall's paper on Cultural Evolution 14-Jan-2009
- Susan Alberts is a Triangle Scholar 12-Jan-2009
- Lori Slack joins NESCent 12-Jan-2009
- Luck Dookchitra joins NESCent 06-Jan-2009
- Phanerozoic Body Size working group's paper in PNAS 22-Dec-2008
- Carlos Botero joins NESCent 23-Dec-2008
- Focus on the Eye in Evolution: Education and Outreach journal 03-Nov-2008
- Brian Sidlauskas' new paper in Evolution 15-Dec-2008
- NESCent searches for candidates for two jobs in Education and Outreach 04-Dec-2008
- Short-term visitor David Houle at NESCent 19-Nov-2008
- Evolutionary Medicine catalysis meeting leads to more events 02-Apr-2009
- Einat Hazkani-Covo's new paper in PLoS Genetics 24-Oct-2008
- Jeremy Beaulieu visting NESCent 13-Oct-2008
- New Awards Announced 06-Oct-2008
- Stephen Smith's paper in Science 03-Oct-2008
- Sabbatical Scholar Michael Antolin joins NESCent 15-Sep-2008
- Brian Sidlauskas' paper in the Zoological Journal 01-Sep-2008
- Sabbatical Scholar Elizabeth Lacey joins NESCent 15-Aug-2008
- BioJava Paper from Phyloinformatics Hackathon 11-Aug-2008
- Sabbatical Scholar George Gilchrist joins NESCent 06-Aug-2008
- Trina Roberts joins NESCent 01-Aug-2008
- Geophylogenies on show at ESRI plenary 04-Aug-2008
- Cartik Kothari joins NESCent 23-Jul-2008
- Dr. Dan Graur visiting NESCent 14-Jul-2008
- Dr. Jijun Tang and Yiting Yang 14-Jul-2008
- NESCent welcomes Candace Brown 07-Jul-2008
- NESCent searches for Assistant Director of Science 12-Jun-2008
- 2007 NABT Evolution Symposium BioScience paper 02-Jun-2008
- Tal Dagan joins NESCent 12-Jun-2008
- Julia Clarke's paper in Systematic Biology 02-Jun-2008
- Clara Jone's paper in Primate Report 02-Jun-2008
- Clara Jones wraps up her work at NESCent 30-May-2008
- Malcolm Schug finishes his sabbatical 30-May-2008
- Paper from the Patterns in Biodiversity Catalysis Meeting 12-May-2008
- Summer Students at NESCent 16-May-2008
- Oliver Eulenstein joins NESCent as a Visiting Scholar 26-May-2008
- Paper from the Madagascar Catalysis Meeting 11-Apr-2008
- David Pfennig's latest paper 11-Apr-2008
- Doug Eernisse's new paper 01-Apr-2008
- CDAO Visitors at NESCent 24-Mar-2008
- David Pfennig's latest paper 17-Mar-2008
- Rob Pennock joins NESCent 17-Mar-2008
- Valerie Duke joins NESCent 03-Mar-2008
- Short-term Visitors Andrew Hipp and Alexander Platt 22-Feb-2008
- Clara Jones' new paper 15-Feb-2008
- Jason Hoeksema's new paper 15-Feb-2008
- Article on the evolutionary medicine catalysis meeting 13-Feb-2008
- Elsa Youngsteadt's paper in PNAS 23-Jan-2008
- Triangle Sabbatical Scholar Marcy Uyenoyama Joins NESCent 15-Jan-2008
- 2008 Darwin Day Symposium 08-Feb-2008
- Comparative Methods in R Hackathon 10-Dec-2007
- Paula Spaeth Arrives at NESCent 03-Dec-2007
- Short-Term Visitors Arrive 05-Nov-2007
- Joel Kingsolver's paper in The Journal of Evolutionary Biology 02-Oct-2007
- Workshop on Ontologies 20-Jun-2008
- Hackathon on Comparative Methods in R 05-Oct-2007
- New Awards Announced 01-Oct-2007
- Triangle Sabbatical Scholar David Pfennig starts at NESCent 20-Aug-2007
- Mike Whitlock's paper in the Journal of Evolutionary Biology 03-Sep-2007
- New sabbatical scholar Malcolm Schug 15-Aug-2007
- Meta-analysis seeking data on group size and parasitism 31-Jul-2007
- GeoPhyloBuilder featured on the International Biogeography Society Blog 26-Jul-2007
- Joel Kingsolver's paper in BioScience 26-Jul-2007
- NESCent's Digital Data Repository Architect, Ryan Scherle arrives 06-Aug-2007
- Mike Whitlock's paper in Journal of Evolutionary Biology 23-Jul-2007
- Reports on Amy Zanne's Meetings in Wood Anatomy News 19-Mar-2007
- Martin Ramirez's paper in Systematic Biology 02-Apr-2007
- Samantha Price's latest publication 15-May-2007
- Maria Servedio's paper in the Journal of Evolutionary Biology 27-Apr-2007
- New Post-doctoral Fellows and Sabbatical Scholars Announced 16-Apr-2007
- Short Term Visitors Program 13-Apr-2007
- Todd Vision's latest papers 11-Apr-2007
- June 15 call for proposals for sabbaticals, working groups and catalysis 05-Apr-2007
- Working group and Catalysis Meeting Awards 05-Apr-2007
- Samantha Price's new paper in Nature 28-Mar-2007
- BioScience Article on the 2006 Evolution Symposium at NABT 01-Mar-2007
- Doug Eernisse has two new papers 01-Mar-2007
- Joel Kingsolver's paper on Temp-Size 28-Feb-2007
- Post-docs at NESCent highlighted in Nature 08-Mar-2007
- Joel Kingsolver's paper in Proceedings of the Royal Society 21-Feb-2007
- Brian Sidlauskas' paper in Evolution 19-Feb-2007
- Outreach and Education in Evolution - Journal Launched 14-Feb-2007
- Jack D'Ardenne Joins NESCent 12-Feb-2007
- February 2007 BioScience Article on NESCent 09-Feb-2007
- Sally Otto's Mathematical Modeling Book published 01-Feb-2007
- Recent publication by Jason Hoeksema 16-Jan-2007
- Dr. Joe Hereford completes NESCent post-doctoral fellowship 31-Dec-2006
- Dr. Lauren McCall joins NESCent for a post-doctoral fellowship 01-Jan-2007
- The 1st NESCent phyloinformatics hackathon 10-Oct-2006
- Announcement of September 2006 Working, Catalysis, and Triangle Group Awards 05-Oct-2006
- An Interview with Kathleen Smith 04-Oct-2006
