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The Biodiversity Heritage Library is on iTunes U. Download pdfs of BHL books to your desktop or mobile device. The Ernst Mayr Library is one of the founding members of BHL.
A paper co-authored by Jonathan Losos and published in the journal Science helps settle the "founder effect" controversy surrounding how populations adapt to new environments. Article in Science Daily, Feb. 2, 2012.
Rosario Castañeda, who will begin working in the Losos Lab in March, has been selected as a 2012 Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) Rubenstein Fellow. The EOL Rubenstein Fellows program supports the research of a diverse group of scientists who are committed to online collaboration and outreach. Read more about Rosario's research on Anolis lizards here.
Chris Laumer, graduate student in the Giribet Lab, is the winner of the Best Platform Presentation for his talk "A single, stepwise origin of ectolecithality in Platyhelminthes" at the 2012 SICB DPCB meeting. Prashant Sharma, also in the Giribet Lab, was declared the runner-up for his talk "Upstream colonization of Australia by Neotropical Opiliones (Arachnida)."
Jonathan Losos received the Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal from the National Academy of Sciences. Losos is recognized for his research on adaptive radiation of Anolis lizards, the subject of his recent book Lizards in an Evolutionary Tree: Ecology and Adaptive Radiation of Anoles. 
A.W. (Fuzz) Crompton was awarded the 2011 Romer-Simpson Medal of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology. The society's highest award honors sustained and outstanding scholarly excellence in the discipline of vertebrate paleontology. Read about the award here.
Gonzalo Giribet and collaborators completed the most comprehensive evolutionary tree ever produced for mollusks in the Nov. 2 issue of Nature. Read about the research here.