News and Announcements

Science Magazine Highlights 2012 SICB Meeting (posted 2012-02-02)

Check out some of the Charleston SICB meeting highlights in the 20 Jan 2012 issue of Science. 1) Heads-up on a whale's gulp. 2) Robotic fish point to schooling gene. 3. Clingfish stick like geckos.

Pitch Control in Lizards, Robots and Dinosaurs (posted 2012-01-23)

Control of body orientation during a leap is important! SICB members from UC Berkeley presented work at the SICB annual meeti ... [More]

Congrats AAAS Fellows (posted 2012-01-23)

Congratulations to SICB Members Brian Barnes, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Bob Full, UC Berkeley, Thomas Kocher, University of Maryland, College Park, Donal Manahan, ... [More]

Why So Many Faces? (posted 2012-01-23)

This question about the rich diversity of primate faces is addressed in the January issue of the journal Proc. of the Royal Society ... [More]

Howard Bern 1920-2012 (posted 2012-01-23)

Howard Bern, SICB President in 1967 and professor emeritus of integrative biology at UC Berkeley died at the age of 91 on January 3, 2012. The SICB established a Howard A. Bern Distinguished Lecture in Comparative Endocrinology in 2001. For more information on the life and accomplishments of Howard Bern, please click here.

Leaping Fish Give Evolution Clue (posted 2011-10-09)

The transition from water to land has intrigued scientists for decades. SICB members Alice Gibb, Miriam Ashley-Ross, Cinnamon Pace, and John Long published work highlighted in BBC Nature News showing that at least six different types of fish are able to launch themselves into the air from a solid surface.

John Wingfield Heads NSF Directorate for Bio Sciences (posted 2011-09-05)

John Wingfield, SICB member and President (2003-2004) was selected to head the NSF Directorate for Biological Sciences. Wingfield is an environmental endocrinologist who served as the division director of Integrative Organismal Systems for a year. For further details, see the NSF press release. Congratulations John!

Shrimp on Treadmills - Silly Science? (posted 2011-08-25)

NPR reported on "Shrimp on a Treadmill: The Politics of 'Silly' Science" recently on Morning Edition. The report featured, among others, SICB members Karen and Lou Burnett, and discussed the politics behind the recent attacks on the public funding of some science projects.

Sharp Teeth Aid Bats' Fruit Diet (posted 2011-08-24)

Neotropical leaf-nosed bats are the subject of the first study to measure how the tooth structure of wild mammals is related to their ability to break down natural food sources from insects to fruit. This study by SICB members Sharlene San ... [More]

SICB Position on NSF GK-12 Program (posted 2011-07-13)

To Dr. Subra Suresh, NSF Director - Dear Dr. Suresh, We were very disappointed to hear that NSF is not planning to continue the Graduate Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Fellows in K-12 Education (GK-12) Program in the Division of Graduate Education. ...(click here to read the entire letter).

SICB Supports the National Endowment for the Oceans Act (posted 2011-07-05)

We write on behalf of our millions of members to urge you to co-sponsor S. 973, the National Endowment of the Oceans Act. (Click here to see the letter.)

SICB Response to U.S. Senator Tom Coburn's Report on NSF (posted 2011-07-05)

On behalf of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB), I would like to publicly comment on the recently released report entitled, "Under the Microscope, which discusses the activities of the National Science Foundation. (Click here to read the letter.)