Leonie Moyle and Irene Newton have been elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, an honor recognizing their outstanding contributions to the progress of science and research.
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It is with sadness the Department of Biology reports the death of esteemed alumnus and epigenetics pioneer C. David Allis.
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IU evolutionary biologists are first to uncover the average age over the past 250,000 years that men versus women become parents—and also find the age gap between the sexes is shrinking.
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FlyBase (IU knowledge base for Drosophila research) was recognized as elite, open-access, international biological knowledge base by induction into Global Biodata Coalition's first collection of Global Core Biodata Resources.
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Armin Moczek surprised students in his entomology class with a buffet of edible insects while also revealing facts about insects they unknowingly eat every day.
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Jay T. Lennon has been awarded the Humboldt Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
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