Yale University graduate students and recent PhD graduates are invited to submit one first-authored paper concerning evolution and the fossil record by March 10, 2023 to Sung Yun in the Director’s Office of the Yale Peabody Museum. So long as the paper explicitly addresses the fossil record, the range of questions addressed is open and could include contributions to the philosophy and history of science, theory and methods of phylogenetic inference, biogeography, paleontology, divergence time estimation, biodiversity studies, developmental biology, functional morphology, or conservation biology. Submissions must be either published or in press in a refereed journal. Graduate students in residence in a department at Yale, or past graduates no more than five years after PhD, are eligible. Former winners are not eligible, but papers can be submitted more than once.
Submissions are no longer being accepted for the 2023 cycle. Winners will be notified via email by May 10, 2023 and will be featured on the Simpson Prize page. Award checks will be mailed to the address provided in the online submission form below.
Sophie Westacott
Sophie Westacott, Noah J. Planavsky, Ming-Yu Zhao, and Pincelli M. Hull; Revisiting the sedimentary record of the rise of diatoms. PNAS 2021; 118 (27) e2103517118. doi: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2103517118
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2021 |
Jack Shaw |
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2020 |
Michael Hanson Elizabeth Spriggs Ross Anderson |
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2019 |
Jasmina Wiemann Christopher Whalen Daniel Smith-Paredes |
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2018 |
Matteo Fabbri Victoria McCoy |
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2017 |
Matt Davis Nicolas Mongiardino Koch |
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2016 |
Simon Darroch Sarah Federman Allison Hsaing |
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2015 |
Teresa Feo Alex Dornburg |
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2014 |
Rachel Racicot Stephen Chester |
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2013 |
Daniel Field |
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2012 |
Una Farrell |
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2011 |
Daniel Peppe April Dinwiddie |
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2010 |
Eric Sperling Jakob Vinther |
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2009 |
Faysal Bibi |
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2008 |
Jakob Vinther |
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2007 |
Walton Green Brian Moore Erik A. Sperling |
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2006 |
Julia A. Clarke Ian Miller |
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2005 |
Charles D. Bell |
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2004 |
Takanobu Tsuihiji |
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2003 |
James B. Rossie Krister T. Smith |
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2002 |
Dana Royer |
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2001 |
Julia Clarke |
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2000 |
Walter Joyce |
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1998 |
Daniel Brinkman |
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1992 |
Simon Conway Morris |
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1985 |
Christine Janis |
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1984 |
Karl J. Niklas |
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For questions, please contact:
Sung Yun
Development Coordinator,
Development / Membership
+1 203 432 6844
sung.yun@yale.edu
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