Faculty and Alumni Achievements:

• Dr. Liliana M. Dávalos' new book published, "The Origins of Cocaine: Colonization and Failed Development in the Amazon Andes", edited with Paul Gootenberg.

• J. Matt Hoch, E&E Ph.D. in 2009, has just been promoted at Nova Southeastern University in Florida. He arrived there after finishing a postdoc with Joel Trexler at Florida International University, working on fish community ecology. He did his Ph.D. at SBU on sex allocation in barnacles.

• Dan Stobel will be promoted to associate professor with tenure at Harvey Mudd College as of the end of this semester.

• Brenna Henn has been invited to be on the editorial board of Molecular Biology and Evolution! This is the highest impact journal in evolutionary biology. Significant  accomplishment for a junior faculty member.

• Congratulations to Emily McDermott, a researcher in the Rest Lab who has been named an Intel Semifinalist.