Newsletters
NESCent publishes electronic newsletters quarterly. Click here to subscribe to the newsletter listserve.
- Vol. 1 No. 1, May, 2007
- Vol. 1 No. 2, October 2007
- Vol. 2 No. 1, May 2008
- Vol. 2 No. 2, August 2008
- Vol. 2 No. 3 November 2008
- Vol. 3 No 1 February 2009
- Vol. 3 No 2 May 2009
Inaugural Newsletter Vol. 1 No. 1, May, 2007
Table of Contents:
A Message from the Director
- New Short Term Visitors Program
- Recent Awards
- Call for Proposals
- Recent Publications by NESCent Scientists
- Call for White Papers
- Phyloinformatics Hackathon
- Recently Funded Informatics Projects
- Evolution Symposium at the National Association of Biology Teachers
- NESCent Databases Aim to Increase Diversity in Evolutionary Biology Fields
Newsletter Vol. 1 No.2, October, 2007
Table of Contents:
A Message from the Director
- New Awards
- December/January Call for Proposals
- Tutorial Available
- Upcoming Workshop on Evolution and Ontologies
- Upcoming Hackathon on Comparative Phylogenetic Methods in R
- 2007 Google Summer of Code at NESCent
- Outreach to Underrepresented Students
- Evolution: Applications in Human Health and Populations
- Evolution Curriculum for Elementary School
- Broader Impacts Ideas – Workshops for Educators
Newsletter Vol. 2 No.1, May, 2008
Table of Contents:
A Message from the Director
- New Awards
- Call for Proposals
- Darwin Day Symposium 2008
- R Hackathon
- Upcoming workshops and Courses
- Dryad
- Employment and Internship Opportunities
- Education Resources from the 2007 NABT Evolution Symposium
- Darwin Day Symposium 2008
- Evolution in the News with Understanding Evolution
- Tools for Teaching Evolution Workshop
- Summer Workshop for Elementary School Teachers
- Increasing Undergraduate Diversity at the Evolution Meetings
Newsletter Vol. 2 No. 2, August, 2008
Table of Contents:
A Message from the Director
- NESCent Post-doctoral Fellows
- New Sabbatical Scholars
- Call for Proposals
- Ontology workshop at SICB
- R Resources
- NESCent at NABT
- NESCent at SACNAS
- NESCent Contributes to Undergraduate Diversity at Evolution 2008
Newsletter Vol. 2 No. 3, November, 2008
Table of Contents:
NESCent Searches for a New Director
- Call for Proposals
- New Awards Announced
- Ontology workshop at SICB
- NSF Award to Support Data Sharing Initiative
- Google Summer of Code(TM)
- Celebrating Darwin 2009
- NESCent at SACNAS
- NESCent at NABT 2008
Vol. 3 No. 1, February, 2009
Table of Contents:
- Craig McClain, NESCent's new Assistant Director of Science
- Recent publications and databases from NESCent working groups
- Events
- Training Opportunities
- Summer Internship
- Other IT News
- Celebrating Darwin's Bicentennial
- Darwin Day 2009
- Evolution Speaker Series
- Illunimating Biology: an Evolutionary Perspective - videos available
