AIBS News January 2006

• Graduate Students: Apply Now for the AIBS 2006 Emerging Public Policy Leader Award

  AIBS is now accepting applications for the 2006 Emerging Public Policy Leader Award, an opportunity for graduate students in the biological sciences to receive firsthand experience in the policy arena.

  AIBS will pay travel costs and expenses for the award recipient to attend a Biological and Ecological Sciences Coalition Congressional Visits Day (CVD) in Washington, DC, 22–23 March 2006. CVD participants will attend briefings by key government officials, as well as receptions honoring federal legislators for their work on behalf of biology; they will also participate in meetings with members of Congress and their staff.

  The deadline to apply is 5:00 p.m. (EST) on Friday, 3 February 2006. For more details and application materials, please visit www.aibs.org/announcements/ 051201_aibs_emerging_public_ policy.html.

• Recent Articles Online at www.actionbioscience.org

  Lesson for classroom activities
  

  • "From Genomes of Species," written by R. Brian Watts, biology professor, Cégep de la Gaspésie et des Îles, Gaspe, QC, Canada, to accompany the article "Species: Comparing Their Genome," adapted from a Howard Hughes Medical Institute report

  Spanish translations of previously posted articles
  

  • "Cuestiones Éticas de la Ingeniería Genética y la Transgénica" [Ethical Issues in Genetic Engineering and Transgenics], by Linda MacDonald Glenn, a health care ethics educator and consultant
  
  
  • "Importancia de la Evolución para la Sociedad" [Evolution's Importance to Society], interview with Massimo Pigliucci, professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolution at the State University of New York at Stony Brook

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