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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, 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, who presented 15 outstanding talks in the Hamilton Symposium during the virtual portion of the Evolution meeting. These talks will be available to all meeting registrants later this year.


 
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