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Evolution scientist elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Apr 25, 2012 at 10:15 AM

Maureen Stanton, vice provost for academic affairs and professor of evolution and ecology at the University of California, Davis, has been elected to the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Stanton's research focuses on how plant and animal populations adapt to environmental...more change, whether caused by natural processes or human activities, knowledge that is critical for predicting the long-term consequences of climate change, biological invasions and other alterations of global ecosystems. She has conducted fieldwork in both the U.S. and Kenya.
Stanton earned her bachelor's degree in biological sciences from Stanford University and her Ph.D. from Harvard before joining the UC Davis faculty in 1982 as an assistant professor in the Department of Botany. She served as the director of the UC Davis Center of Population Biology from 1993 to 1998 and chaired the Department of Evolution and Ecology from 2005 to 2011. Stanton took up the position as vice provost for
Davis

Super Tuesday: Key questions for candidates
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Mar 6, 2012 at 5:46 AM
The outcome of Super Tuesday contests will set the course ahead for the Republican nominee to face President Obama in November.

Lawyer in WikiLeaks case wants to depose Clinton
Jan 16, 2012 at 5:37 PM
WASHINGTON - A lawyer for an intelligence analyst charged with leaking classified information to the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks wants to question Secretary of State Hillary Clinton before his client is tried.

Who ranks among the most admired in 2011?
Dec 27, 2011 at 2:02 PM
USA Today/Gallup Poll released their list of the nation's most admired men and women.

Ex-US officials call for lifting of terror label
Feb 19, 2011 at 2:43 PM
WASHINGTON (AP) - Former top-ranking U.S. officials are urging the Obama administration to take an Iranian dissident group off its list of terrorist organizations, saying the move would raise pressure on Tehran at a time when authoritarian regimes are...

Heavy gunfire rings out in Cairo protest square
Feb 2, 2011 at 10:03 PM
CAIRO (AP) - Violence has raged overnight in the Cairo squarethat has been the central battleground between anti-government protesters and forces loyal to President Hosni Mubarak.

Poll: Obama and Hillary Clinton are 'most admired'
Dec 27, 2010 at 5:00 PM
WASHINGTON - For the third straight year, President Obama ranks as the man most admired by people living in the U.S.

Obama not on Chelsea Clinton's wedding guest list
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Jul 29, 2010 at 10:34 AM
In an interview on "The View," President Obama said he wasn't invited because former President Bill Clinton and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton wanted the event to be about their daughter and her future husband.

Chelsea Clinton's wedding will be subtle affair
Jul 28, 2010 at 3:29 PM
Chelsea Chelsea will marry her longtime boyfriend, investment banker Marc Mezvinsky, Saturday at a recently restored Astor family palace in the town of Rhinebeck, N.Y.

White House: Obama not picking Hillary Clinton for Supreme Court
Apr 12, 2010 at 4:01 PM
The White House says President Obama won't be nominating Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton to the Supreme Court.

Obama calls for return to civility in Washington
Feb 4, 2010 at 9:29 AM
President Barack Obama is calling on lawmakers to bring civility back to the nation's capital.

U.S. on verge of Iran sanctions, says Clinton
Jan 11, 2010 at 3:57 PM
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says the Obama administration has concluded that the best way to pressure Iran to come clean on its nuclear ambitions is to impose sanctions aimed at the country's ruling elite.

George Stephanopoulos Named "Good Morning America" anchor
Dec 10, 2009 at 3:24 PM
George Stephanopoulos has been named the new anchor of "Good Morning America," ABC News President David Westin announced Thursday.

Sacramento's Eleni Tsakopoulos Named Ambassador to Hungary
Oct 9, 2009 at 8:36 PM
President Barack Obama has named prominent Democratic fundraiser from Sacramento Eleni Tsakopoulos-Kounalakis as ambassador to the Republic of Hungary.

Freed U.S. Journalists Back on U.S. Soil
Aug 4, 2009 at 12:20 AM

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said the two journalists released from North Korea are "extremely excited" to be on their way back to the United States.