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March 2012

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Biology profs receive prestigious CAREER NSF awards

Pieter Johnson Rebecca Safran
Pieter Johnson Rebecca Safran

The National Science Foundation (NSF) continues its commitment to the university and support of its research across CU's four campuses. CU ranks fifth nationally among public institutions by the NSF in federal research and development expenditures in engineering and science. Assistant professors Pieter Johnson and Rebecca Safran from the ecology and evolutionary biology department at CU-Boulder recently received prestigious NSF Early Career Development (CAREER) awards. The awards are made to outstanding faculty in the early stages of their careers who effectively integrate innovative research and educational outreach.

Johnson was awarded $700,000 over five years to study how ecological diversity in natural communities can affect disease risk for amphibians, which are the most threatened class of vertebrates worldwide.

Safran was awarded $850,000 over five years to study barn swallow populations to better understand how new species are formed and to measure adaptive evolutionary changes within swallow populations.

Johnson and Safran are two examples of the many researchers across CU who are making a positive difference today, and striving toward a better world for tomorrow.

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