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Honors:

  • U.C. Berkeley Anthropology Honors
  • U.C. Berkeley University High Honors
  • U.C. Berkeley President's Undergraduate Fellowship 1987
  • National Institutes of Health Predoctoral traineeship 1989-1994
  • DAAD/Fulbright Predoctoral fellowship for research in Germany 1991/1992
  • NSF Sloan Postdoctoral fellowship in molecular evolution 1996-1998
  • Burroughs/Wellcome Fund Career Award in the Biomedical Sciences 1998-2005 (PI)
  • David and Lucile Packard Career Award in Science and Engineering 2001-2006
  • Univ. of MD College of Life Science Faculty Excellence Award for Junior Faculty 2003
  • Featured as one of the "Ten Most Brilliant" young scientists in the U.S. by Popular Science Magazine, September, 2003
  • Research featured in assorted TV and radio reports including two documentaries shown on Discovery channel and PBS, radio interviews on the BBC, NPR, WTOP, CBC radio in Canada, and the Koji Nnamdi show on WAMU in Washington D.C. 
  • Research featured in a number of newspaper and journal articles including Science, Nature, New York Times, Washington Post, Baltimore Sun, LA Times, Washington Times, US News and World Report, The Economist, National Geographic, Popular Science, Science News, Discovery News, American Scientist, Scientific American, Newsday, among others.
 
   
 

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Department of Biology | College of Life Sciences
University of Maryland, College Park