Dean's Undergraduate Symposium

2009 UCSD/Merck Life Sciences Achievement Award Recipient
Keynote Speaker Dr. James F. Crow

Dr. James F. Crow is Professor Emeritus of Genetics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has made important contributions as a pioneer and giant in the field of genetics and has worked humbly and devotedly throughout his life to further his science and to broaden public understanding of its implications. He has had extraordinary influence as a leader within the field by virtue of the positions he has assumed, his skills as a teacher, and his ability to serve as an inspiring mentor to a long stream of evolutionary biologists and geneticists. These roles have amplified his influence and characterized his unique contributions to science. Dr. Crow is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Medicine, The American Philosophical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the World Academy of Art and Science. He is an honorary Fellow of the Japan Academy and a Fellow of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters.

The 2009 UCSD/Merck Life Sciences Achievement Award will be presented to James F. Crow, who, like previous recipients Sir Francis Crick, Sydney Brenner, and Stephen Harrison, has made rigorous and innovative contributions to almost every area of evolutionary biology and population genetics over a career that has lasted more than 50 years.