EBIO Assistant Professor Rebecca Safran has just received one of the s top awards from the (CAREER) Program. The CAREER award is given to junior faculty members who have strengths as both teachers and scholars. Safran will use the $850,000 award to collect data on the genomic signatures of speciation. The 5-year award will fund research expeditions throughout the northern hemisphere to collect data on a young but rapidly diverging group of populations in order to study the process of biodiversity evolution from genetic, morphological and ecological perspectives. An exciting range of teaching innovations related to this work will be completed via film-making, extensive international collaboration and local citizen science projects.
