2012 News

Dr. Evangeline (Anji) Ballerini, a NIH postdoctoral associate in Scott Hodges’ laboratory, has been chosen as the recipient of the 2012 Harvey L. Karp Discovery Award.

With increasing levels of carbon dioxide accumulating in the atmosphere and moving into marine systems, the world's oceans are becoming more acidic.

Thanks to studies of a fish that gives birth to live young and is not fished commercially, scientists at UC Santa Barbara have discovered that food availability is a critical limiting factor in the health of fish populations.

US and Canadian researchers, including EEMB professor William Rice, have evolved a population of fruitflies that can count. 

Calder combined her love of teaching and insects and wrote the tome Airplanes in the Garden: Monarch Butterflies Take Flight.