Awards & Grants: Hamilton Award Recipient and Honorable Mentions

Contributed by kjm34 on Jul 05, 2024 - 03:36 PM

Text: Society for the Study of Evolution W. D. Hamilton Award for Outstanding Graduate Student Presentation: Mackenzie Urquhart-Cronish, Honorable Mentions: Yuki Haba & Michelle McCauley.


Congratulations to the recipient of the 2024 Hamilton Award for Outstanding Graduate Student Presentation [1], Mackenzie Urquhart-Cronish! Mackenzie presented “Testing the influence of historical range expansion on contemporary mating system evolution.”

We are also pleased to announce two Honorable Mentions this year: Yuki Haba, who presented “Origin of the London Underground mosquito, Culex pipiens bioform molestus”, and Michelle McCauley, who presented “A pluralistic approach to sex: increased mutation rate and a coevolving parasite maintain outcrossing.”

Thank you to all of our Hamilton finalists [2], who presented 15 outstanding talks in the Hamilton Symposium during the virtual portion of the Evolution meeting [3]. These talks will be available to all meeting registrants later this year.


Links
  1. https://aws3.evolutionsociety.org//index.php?module=content&type=user&func=view&pid=15
  2. https://aws3.evolutionsociety.org//news/display/2024/6/7/hamilton-award-finalists/
  3. https://aws3.evolutionsociety.org/https://www.evolutionmeetings.org/
  4. https://aws3.evolutionsociety.org/'https://evolutionsociety.org/tag/evolution-2022/'