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Does Darwin’s home deserve the same status as Egypt’s pyramids?

The Guardian, 2009

Eric Madrid

Eric Madrid receives the Annals of Botany Graduate Prize

Eric Madrid (Ph.D. 2008) receives the Annals of Botany Graduate Prize for the best paper authored by a student in volume 103 (first half of 2009).

Write-up of Eric’s work in Annals of Botany

homology

MORPH hosts minicourse/workshop on the concept of homology in January of 2009

Information and participants

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Joe Williams makes the Top 100 Stories of 2008 in Discover Magazine

Joe Williams (postdoctoral research associate 2000 – 2003) makes the Top 100 Stories of 2008 in Discover Magazine for his paper in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, “Novelties of the flowering plant pollen tube underlie diversification of a key life history stage.”

Article in Discover

starch

Petal power: How flowering plants conquered the world

New Scientist, 2008

Eric Madrid

Eric Madrid wins the Maynard Moseley Award

Eric Madrid (Ph.D. 2008) wins the Maynard Moseley Award for the best student paper presented in the Paleobotanical or Developmental and Structural sessions at the Botanical Society of America meeting in 2008.

Moseley Awards

hydatella

Floral shocker: Blooms shake roots of flowering plant family

Science News, 2008

Jennifer Winther gets rave write-up of her publication on the fungal partners of mycoheterotrophic plants

Jennifer Winther (Ph.D. 2007) gets rave write-up of her publication on the fungal partners of mycoheterotrophic plants: “An extremely important landmark, laying to rest over a century of speculations and uncertainty…”

Commentary section in New Phytologist

amborellafemale

Living fossil may solve Darwin’s abominable mystery

Telegraph (UK), 2006

amborella-male

Ancient shrub unlocks a clue to Darwin’s ‘abominable mystery’

Christian Science Monitor, 2006