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Science Friday has been featuring bat work as part of their Halloween celebration. In this segment, former BU post-doc Nick Hristov describes his fascinating work on Brazilian free-tailed bats.

http://www.sciencefriday.com/video/09/07/2012/to-the-bat-cave.html

CAS highlights Postdoc Marian Y.L. Wong and Professor Pete Buston's work on habitat-specialist coral reef fishes in which they found that these species have proven invaluable for experimental testing of key concepts in social evolution! Check it out!


http://www.bu.edu/cas/what-coral-reef-fishes-can-tell-us-about-animal-social-systems/

What Coral Reef Fishes Can Tell Us About Animal Social Systems » Arts & Sciences | Boston University After reviewing recent research based on the study of habitat-specialist coral reef fishes, CAS post-doctoral researcher Marian Y. L. Wong and Peter M. Buston, assistant professor of biology, have found that these species have proven invaluable for experimental testing of key concepts in social evol...

BU today writes a great article about Professor John Finnerty winning the prestigious Metcalf award!! Congrats to John!

"Popular CAS prof uses games to bring scientific method to life"

http://www.bu.edu/today/2013/innovator-finnerty-wins-metcalf-award/

Innovator Finnerty Wins Metcalf Award | BU Today | Boston University Popular CAS prof uses games to bring scientific method to life

An article in CAS depicts Les Kaufman's work in the Tonle Sap, Cambodia utilizing his Multi-scale Integrated Models of Ecosystem Services (MIMES) modeling!


http://www.bu.edu/cas/magazine/spring13/biology/kaufman/

Arts & Sciences | Boston University This family’s catch from Tonle Sap includes some of the small fish species that go into making the fermented fish paste prahoc, a prime ingredient in Cambodian cooking.

An article from CAS talks about how Professor Sean Mullen is tackling convergent evolution in Butterflies!

Arts & Sciences | Boston University Thousands of years ago, a Red-spotted Purple butterfly (Limenitis arthemis) emerged from its cocoon without the telltale markings of its species—a white band through the middle of its wings. The creature reproduced and began to flourish.

Professor Kelly Swing says: “I definitely see this as a human rights issue. I think it’s very sad to say that most human rights issues don’t really come to be recognized as human rights issues until people start to die.”

Rain Forest vs. Big Business and Oil There are some who don’t think that oil companies are evil, that their only concern is to make money, and never consider the consequences of their greed. I’m not one of them, nor are the indigenou...

Yasuni in Ecuador on NBC!!!

"Oil boom threatens Amazon Tribesmen"

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/21134540/vp/51768274 #51768274

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I need spectacular photos from the Tropical Ecology Program for the creation of a new poster! They can be photos of amazing animals, candid field work, Ecuadorians, you and your friends, picturesque scenes, etc. If you have any photos you would love to see up in the BRB please send them to [email protected]. Thanks!!

Victim of Allston fire remembered as personable, driven to change world | The Daily Free Press College of Arts and Science senior Binland Lee was killed Sunday morning in the fire at 87 Linden St. in Allston. PHOTO COURTESY OF ALAINA BAY

CAS Student Killed in Fire Remembered as Playful, Passionate | BU Today | Boston University BUMP “family” mourns Binland Lee

5 things to do in and around Boston the week of April 21 - The Boston Globe Documentaries about whales, a Beatles superfan, and Gore Vidal; features directed by Joss Whedon, Lynn Shelton, and Nat Faxon and Jim Rash; and shorts of every stripe will screen at Cambridge, Somerville, Brookline, and Boston theaters as part of the Independent Film Festival Boston. See the schedul...

Chris Schneider, acting director of the CECB, has been in contact with Kelly Swing, who is educating BU Tropical Ecology students at the Tiputini Biodiversity Station in Ecuador. This is what Kelly has said:

"Sightings these two weeks at Tiputini have been excellent. Some students actually saw a puma eat a deer, several others have seen ocelots; our herpetology oriented student has seen lots of lizard species as well as salamanders and other things that can be challenging. Everyone is bubbling over with excitement and the projects are advancing well."