Copyright 1994 to 2003 by the Regents of the University of California, all rights reserved. en-us http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/ Mon, 22 Sep 2003 22:13:00 PST UC Museum of Paleontology cwhitney@uclink.berkeley.edu Sat, 06 Jan 2007 23:55:02 PST http://www.uow.edu.au/conferences/MOLLUSCS06/ UCMP grad student Becky Williams received the Best Student Paper award at the Malacological Society of Australasia's Molluscs 2006 conference in December. The paper, entitled "Chemical defense in hatchlings of the Blue-ringed Octopus Hapalochlaena lunulata", was co-authored with former UCMP grad student Crissy Huffard, and UCMP Director Roy Caldwell. http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/museum/events/shortcourse2007/index.html http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/news/clemens_romer06.php In October 2006, at the 66th Annual Meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology in Ottawa, Bill Clemens was awarded the Alfred S. Romer - George G. Simpson Medal. The medal is "for sustained and outstanding scholarly excellence and service to the discipline of vertebrate paleontology" and is the society's highest honor. http://www.cushmanfoundation.org/awards/awardee.html The award was presented at the Cushman Award dinner and reception held at the Geological Society of America Annual Meeting in Philadelphia on Tuesday evening, October 24, attended by over 200 paleontologists. Previous awardees include an international list of the outstanding foraminiferal workers of the past century. Jere was also named a Fellow of the Paleontological Society, an honor initiated in 2005 to recognize outstanding paleontologists in the Society. http://conference.cascience.org/fspk.asp Brent Mishler, Director of the University and Jepson Herbaria; Dave Lindberg, UCMP Faculty Curator; and Doris Sloan, UCMP Research Associate were invited as Focus Speakers at this year's annual science education conference held in San Francisco and sponsored by the California Science Teachers Association (CSTA). Kevin Padian, UCMP Faculty Curator, and Eugenie Scott, UCMP Research Associate, received recognition as CSTA Faculty Fellows at the Awards Luncheon held during the conference.