President Obama awarded Nick Pyenson, PDF alumnus, the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the highest honour bestowed by the U.S. Government on scientists in the early stages of their research careers.
Delmore and Toews, alumni of the Irwin lab, have found that songbirds have a small cluster of genes determining migration route. This has important implications for diversification and speciation.cbcubcnewsphysorg
Nerves get damaged if stretched, but UBC researchers have discovered that the largest baleen whales have nerve cables that can stretch and recoil. Nice coverage here.
