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AIBS honors outstanding contributions to the biological sciences
Date:4/30/2008

University of New York Stony Brook where his research interests focus primarily on speciation and the evolution of ecological interactions among species. Prior to his presidency of AIBS, Futuyma served as president of the Society for the Study of Evolution and the American Society of Naturalists. He was a Guggenheim and a Fulbright Fellow, and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences. Futuyma is an editor of Evolution and the Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution and Systematics, as well as the author of two successful textbooks, Evolutionary Biology and Evolution. His leadership and service to AIBS go back more than a decade, with numerous board and committee appointments to cross-disciplinary projects, including the BioOne online journals initiative, the National Ecological Observatory Network, the Coalition on the Public Understanding of Science, and the Year of Science 2009.

Michelle Nijhuis will receive the Media Award for her articles Beetle Warfare and Bonfire of the Superweeds, which were part of a series on western invasions that ran in High Country News on August 20 and November 26, 2007. She is a contributing editor of High Country News. Her reporting on science and the environment has also appeared in Smithsonian, National Geographic, Audubon, and the anthology, Best American Science Writing. Nijhuis has won several national honors for her science writing including a AAAS Science Journalism Award.


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