Molly Bernhard (Biology, C'09 ) has received the 2013 Charles Barkley Health Disparities Investigator Award and the 2013 Outstanding Masters Student award for the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) School of Public Health.

Eric Keen '08 and Biology Professor Jon Evans recently published the results from an 11 year study of pignut hickory regeneration failure on St. Catherines Island, GA.

Senior Honors Theses were presented by Biology and Ecology & Biodiversity majors at this year's Scholarship Sewanee oral presentation session.

Biology student research was featured in 19 posters and seven oral presentations at this year's annual Scholarship Sewanee.

Biology Professor David Haskell's recent book, "The Forest Unseen," was named as one of the three finalists for the Pulitzer Prize in the general nonfiction category.

Meg Armistead, C'14 (Ecology and Biodiversity major), presented a talk Feb. 26 to the 36th Annual Meeting of the Southeast Deer Study Group in Greenville, SC.

Freshmen Simey Emerson and Taylor Morris attended the annual meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology January 3 – 7, 2013.

David Johnson, visiting assistant professor of biology here at Sewanee, is part of a multi-disciplinary national research group that recently discovered the impact of nutrient enrichment on salt marshes.

The New York Times has a great article on Professor of Biology David Haskell who, it says, "thinks like a biologist, writes like a poet, and gives the natural world the kind of open-minded attention one expects from a Zen monk rather than a hypothesis-driven scientist."

A blog about the Haiti Project was started by post-baccalaureate fellow Keri Bryan (Ecology & Biodiversity C'12) under the direction of Biology Professor Deborah McGrath.

Sierra Hayes, Class of 2010 Biology major, has recently joined City Year close to her home town in southeast Washington, DC, serving as a corps member on the Case Foundation Team at Simon Elementary School.

Nathan Bourne (C’11), who graduated with a degree in Environmental Studies: Ecology and Biodiversity, began a post-baccalaureate fellowship with the Sewanee Herbarium and Sewanee Environmental Institute earlier this summer.

Damselfishes are considered the “poodles of the sea” for their active defense of food resources within their territories against much larger predators. During this summer’s Field Study in Belize course, current students and a recent alumna were able to investigate damselfish territoriality on the Belizean coral reefs.