Beth Shapiro
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Beth Shapiro is an evolutionary molecular biologist in the department of biology at the Pennsylvania State University. She was formerly a researcher in the department of zoology at Oxford University.
Shapiro is notable for a number of publications in ecology in journals including Science, and has carried out mitochondrial DNA analysis of the dodo.
She was born in the United States and grew up in Rome, Georgia, where she served as the local news anchor while still in high school. She was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship in 1999.[1]
In 2008, she was named by Smithsonian Magazine as one of 37 young American innovators under the age of 36. [2]
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[edit] Summary CV
- 2007-present
- Penn State University, Dept. of Biology, Assistant Professor
- 2006-2007
- Royal Society University Research Fellow
- 2004-2007
- Oxford University, Balliol College, Junior Research Fellow
- 2002
- Oxford University, DPhil Biology "Inferring Evolutionary History and Processes Using Ancient DNA"
- 1999
- University of Georgia, M.S. Ecology
- 1999
- University of Georgia, B.S. Ecology
[edit] Selected publications
Shapiro, B; Sibthorpe D, Rambaut A, Austin J, Wragg GM, Bininda-Emonds OR, Lee PL, Cooper A (2002). "Flight of the Dodo". Science (295). doi:.
[edit] Honors and Awards
- Smithsonian Magazine Young American Innovator in the Arts and Sciences, 2008
- Royal Society University Research Fellowship, 2006
- Rhodes Scholarship, 1999
- Phi Beta Kappa National Honor Society, 1998
- Morris K. Udall Scholarship for Excellence in Environmental Public Policy, 1997
- Foundation Fellowship, University of Georgia, 1994-1998
- Phi Kappa Phi Scholar, 1995
[edit] References
- ^ The Rhodes to Oxford: Ecology student, Foundation Fellow Beth Shapiro becomes UGA’s third Rhodes Scholar in four years
- ^ 37 under 36: America's Young Innovators in the Arts and Sciences
