Sarah Luke, a PhD student in the Insect Ecology Group has two recent successes: winning the Merian award for best student talk at the Annual Conference for the Society of Tropical Ecology (held in Freising, Germany, last month), and second prize in the Royal Entomological Society student essay competition . Congratulations...

Claire Feniuk , a PhD student in the Conservation Science Group won first prize at the Student Conference on Conservation Science yesterday, for her poster "Finding the balance: Food production and biodiversity conservation in Europe". This was quite an achievement, given that there were 100 posters and the standard was...

PhD student Gerit Linneweber (from the Gut Signalling and Metabolism Lab), won third prize in the Graduate School of Life Sciences Image Competition on 13th March 2014, for his confocal microscopy image of a Drosophila larval spiracle. The spiracles are the entry point of oxygen into the organism and must, similar to the...

PhD student Alex Hackmann , from the Insect Biomechanics Workgroup , has won first prize in the Graduate School of Life Sciences Image Competition on 13th March 2014 for his Scanning Electron Microscopy image of a polystyrene particle attached to a cleaning hair of an ant. In the course of evolution insects have developed...

PhD candidate David Williams , in the Conservation Science Group , has won first prize for the talk he gave at the Clare Graduate Symposium on Thursday 13th March 2014. His talk was entitled "Who killed the mammoths? A tale of murder, mystery and... climate change".

Our Head of Department, Professor Michael Akam received the Frink Medal from the Zoological Society of London at an award presentation on 17th June 2014. This is ZSL's highest award and is for "significant and original contributions by a professional zoologist to the development of zoology in the wider applications"...

The Department is delighted to offer its congratulations to Professor Ron Laskey, FRS, on his award of the Royal Society's prestigious Royal Medal.

The department is delighted to offer its congratulations to Dr Rosie Trevelyan, Director of the Tropical Biology Association and based here in the Department, who has been awarded the Zoological Society of London Silver Medal for contributions to the understanding of zoology, including activities such as wildlife conservation and education.

The Department is delighted to offer its congratulations to Professor Michael Akam who has been awarded the Linnean Medal for Zoology.

The Department offers its congratulations to Professor Jenny Clack who has become the latest member of the Department to be made a Fellow of the Royal Society bringing the total to 18.