Congratulations to Wendy Gu, a Ph.D student in her 4th year, who has won first place in the BSCB BSDB Student Poster Prize competition (British Societies for Cell and Developmental Biology). Her prize is attendance at the SBD 74th Annual Meeting, which takes place in July 2015 in Snowbird, Utah.

In this year's GSLS Poster and Image competition , the Department of Zoology postgraduates made a very strong showing: In the Research Poster category: Best Overall - Jessica McLachlan Best 4th Year PhD/Postdoc - Hanns Hagen Goetzke Research Image Highly Commended - Wendy Gu

Nick Davies ’ new book, published by Bloomsbury, is now on sale. The book includes field photographs and some fine field drawings by James McCallum. According to David Attenborough, this is "an amazing detective story by one of the country's greatest field naturalists." The book was reviewed by Michael McCarthy in The...

Two former members of the Department have been awarded Certificates of Commendation by the Zoological Society of London. The ZSL runs an annual competition in three categories for students and researchers working in a UK University. The Charles Darwin Award and Marsh Prize for an outstanding undergraduate research project...