Department of Biology
Macalester College
1600 Grand Avenue
St. Paul, MN 55105
W: 651-696-6102
Fax: 651-696-6443
e-mail: davis@macalester.edu
EDUCATION:
1981 Ph.D. Dartmouth College (Department of Biology)
1974 Ed.M. Harvard University (Graduate School of Education)
1972 A.B. Harvard College (History of Science)
PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT:
2007-Present, DeWitt Wallace Professor of Biology, Macalester
College, St. Paul, MN
1992-2007 Professor of Biology,
1981-1998 Director, Environmental Studies Program, Macalester College
1992-1995 Chair, Department of Biology, Macalester College
1991-1992 Acting Chair, Department of Biology, Macalester College
1987-1992 Associate Professor of Biology, Macalester College
1981-1986 Assistant Professor of Biology, Macalester College
H0NORS
1968 Harvard Freshman Honorary Scholarship
1969 Harvard College Honorary Scholarship
1972 A.B. Magna cum laude
1972 Thesis (Magna cum laude) Spanish Baroque Medicine 1598-1700
1976 Dartmouth College Graduate Fellowship
1988 Blandin Fellow
1989 Blandin Fellow
1995 Blandin Fellow
1995 Minnesota College Science Teacher of the Year (awarded by the
Minnesota Academy of Science and the Minnesota Science Teachers
Association)
2004 Thomas Jefferson Award (awarded by Macalester College)
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
AAAS, Ecological Society of America, British Ecological Society, American Institute for the Biological Sciences, Minnesota Academy of Science
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Member of National Science Foundation Ecology Advisory Panel
Population and Evolutionary
Processes Proposals (fall 2005)
Ecology Proposals (spring 1996,
fall 1996, spring 1997, spring 1998,
spring 1999, spring 2000)
Ecology Dissertation Improvement
Proposals (spring 1995)
Reviewer for Ecology, Ecology Letters, Bioscience, Plant Ecology, Trends in Ecology and Evolution, Restoration Ecology, Evolution, Journal of Vegetation Science, Invasion Biology, plus many others, USDA, and National Science Foundation
Chair, Winchell Undergraduate Research Symposium, Minnesota Academy of Science (1997-2001)
RESEARCH INTERESTS, PROJECTS, AND FUNDING
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