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June 2009
Queens College President's Award for Excellence in Teaching by Adjunct Faculty awarded to Peter Novick
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July 2009
NSF grant awarded to Biology Professor John Dennehy. Title: “Population dynamics and evolution of emerging viruses”
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2009 QC-Biology Department Awards
On May 28th, 2009 the Queens College Biology Department hosted the Annual Honors and Awards Ceremony to recognize our outstanding Majors. (Photos here)
Student Awards for Biology Department 2008-2009 are:
Laura H. and Arthur L. Colwin Prize: Brian Estevez
Charles Darwin Prize: Forough Yassi
Muriel and Philip Feigelson Award: Svetlana A. Musheyev
and
Lizbeth Nunez
Donald E. Lancefield Award: Alexander Pinhas
and
Zahava Rubel
High Honors: Alexander Pinhas, Zahava Rubel and Forough Yassi
Spring 2009 Biology Graduates! (Photos here)
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2009 Masters of Biology Graduates (Photos here)
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April 2009
Biology Professor Nathalia Glickman-Holtzman was awarded a 3-year NIH R15 grant. Title: “Defining endocardail requirements for myocardial morphogenesis”
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April 2009
David Lahti (Ph.D. Biology, University of Michigan; Ph.D. Philosophy, Whitefield Institute Oxford) has joined the Biology Department as an assistant Professor starting Fall 2009.
David Lahti is interested in how complex traits evolve in an ecological context. Current research involves empirical studies of bird eggs and behavior, and synthetic and theoretical work on topics such as relaxed natural selection, behavioral evolution, and the evolution of human culture. He conducts field research in New York, New England, and Africa.
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April 2009
Biology Professor John Waldman was awarded two grants from the Hudson River Foundation. These are titled “Genetic Mixed-Stock Analysis of Coastal American Shad Fisheries” and “River Herring Otolith Geochemical Markers to Identify Essential Fish Habitat and Bycatch”. The first grant is headed by Waldman in collaboration with co-PI Isaac Wirgin of NYU. Waldman is co-PI on the second grant in collaboration with PI Karin Limburg of SUNY-ESF and co-PI Simon Thorrold of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute.
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March 2009
Three students in the Minority Access to Research Careers program (MARC program) won best presentation at the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students; (l-r) Brian Estevez, mentored by Biology Professor Zahra Zakeri; Lisbeth Nenez, mentored by Biology Professor Alicia Melendez; and Jair David Zapata, mentored by Psychology Professor Susan Croll.
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February 2009 - The Biology Department’s Day of Darwin Symposium was a huge success (organized by Biology Professor John Dennehy) -
Panel discussion from left: Patricia Wittkopp, Paul Turner, Jeffrey Schwartz, and Susan Foster
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Two grants awarded to Biology Professor Alicia Meléndez - Ellison Medical Foundation Young Scholar Award in Aging research, and an NSF Research Initiation Grant
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USDA grant awarded to Biology Professor Mitchell Baker. Title: "Rotation distance and resistance management in Colorado potato beetle: Is movement a cost of resistance?"
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NSF grant awarded to Biology Professor Mike Hickerson. Title: "Testing biogeographic models of community assembly, colonization and vicariance with comparative phylogeographic data and hierarchical Bayesian models"
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2008 Biology Department Award Winners
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2008 Biology Undergraduates receiving degrees
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2008 Masters of Arts in Biology Graduates
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NIH grant "Genetic Bases of Sarcopenia and Muscle Healthspan in C. elegans" awarded to Biology Professor Alicia Meléndez.
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NSF grant "Undergraduate Research Mentoring in Ecology, Evolution and Behavior " awarded to Biology Professor Stéphane Boissinot. Apply here to conduct research overseas under this new summer program.
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"BioBlitz Participants Storm Jamaica Bay", (article in Queens Chronicle). Bioblitz orchestrated by Professors Gillian Stewart and John Waldman.
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"Like Ducks and Penguins, With Nervous Stomachs". A New York Times article featuring graduate student Colin Grubel and Biology Professor John Waldman
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"Swimming with the Fishes (The Death and Life of New York’s Waterways)". A cuny radio Podcast featuring Biology Professor John Waldman. Listen Now
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Biology Department Group Photograph
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2008 Queens College President's Award for Excellence in Teaching by Adjunct Faculty awarded to Areti Tsiola
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2007 Queens College President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching was given to Biology Professor Tim Short.
Information on nine previous teaching awards given to Biology Department faculty