Faculty Updates

New Hires, Awards, and Promotions

New Hires

	Dr. Liz Co Biology Lecturer, PhD, University of California, San Francisco, Areas of Interest: Science education, human immunology and reproduction.
	Professor Ian Davison Assistant Professor of Biology. PhD, Simon Fraser University, Areas of Interest: Neural circuit architecture and information storage in olfactory cortical networks.
	Professor Trevor Siggers Assistant Professor of Biology, PhD, Columbia University, Areas of Interest: Systems biology of the immune and inflammatory systems, gene regulation in immune and inflammatory systems, inflammatory diseases, transcriptional networks, DNA-binding of transcription factors and transcriptional regulatory complexes, computational genomics, cis-regulatory logic in transcription.
	Dr. Nathan Stewart Biology Lecturer, PhD, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Areas of Interest: Influence of habitat complexity, prey quality, and predator avoidance on marine mammal resource selection in nearshore sub-tidal communities in coastal Alaska and the Arctic.

Awards

	Professor John Finnerty, Director of the BU Marine Program (BUMP), has been awarded a 2013 Metcalf Award for Excellence in Teaching.
	Professor Les Kaufman received the Parker-Gentry Award for Conservation Biology from the Field Museum in Chicago.
	Professor Richard Primack received the Distinguished Service Award of the Society for Conservation Biology and became an Honorary Fellow of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation.
	Professor Wally Fulweiler won the Neu Family Award for Excellence in Teaching.
	Professor James Traniello received the Templeton Award for Excellence in Student Advising.
	Professor Gloria Callard was awarded the ISFE (International Symposium on Fish Endocrinology) Lifetime Achievement Award.
	Professor Adrien Finzi received the Distinguished Alumni Award from the College of Life Science and Agriculture at the University of New Hampshire where he completed his undergraduate degree in 1990.
	Professor Phillip Lobel was awarded the “NOGI” (the oldest and most prestigious award in the diving industry) by the Academy of Underwater Arts and Sciences (AUAS); he also received the 2011 Service Award from the American Academy of Underwater Sciences.

Promotions

	Professor Adrien Finzi *Ecology, Behavior & Evolution* Promoted to Full Professor (effective 9/2011)
	Professor Kim McCall *Cell & Molecular Biology* Promoted to Full Professor (effective 9/2013)
	Professor Pamela Templer *Ecology, Behavior & Evolution* Promoted to Associate Professor (effective 9/2012)
	Professor Hengye Man *Neurobiology* Promoted to Associate Professor (effective 9/2011)
	Professor Frank Naya *Cell & Molecular Biology* Promoted to Associate Professor (effective 9/2011)
	Dr. Kathryn Spilios Director of Instructional Labs and Lecturer Promoted to Full Time Lecturer (effective 7/2013)

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