James Walters receives Fulbright Scholar Award
James Walters, associate professor of ecology & evolutionary biology, has received a Fulbright Scholar Award to conduct research for nine months in the Czech Republic. Beginning in September, Walters will join the lab of Petr Nguyen, faculty of science and chair of the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics at the University of South Bohemia in the city of České Budějovice. Walters will work with Nguyen to investigate the evolution of sex chromosomes in Danaine butterflies, a subfamily of butterflies that includes the monarch butterfly.