The Crustacean Society (TCS) is pleased to announce the winners of the Best Student Paper and Poster Competition held during the Annual Meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, January 3-7, 2007, at the Phoenix Convention Center, Phoenix Arizona.  There were 24 competitors and the quality of entries was impressive.  The Best Graduate Student Oral Presentation Award was presented to Trevor J. Rivers (Cornell University) for his talk entitled, “Female response behavior to complex, intermittent luminescent male displays in a Caribbean ostracod” (with co-author J. G. Morin).  The Best Graduate Student Poster Award was presented to Elizabth A.G. Whitehill (Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution and Florida Atlantic University) for her poster entitled, “Visual adaptations of life history stages of ontogenetically migrating crustaceans” (with co-author T.M. Frank).  Each award consists of a certificate, US$50 cash, and a one-year membership in The Crustacean Society, including subscription to The Journal of Crustacean Biology. Copies of the winning abstracts with student contact e-mail information are given in The Ecdysiast. TCS thanks those members who served as judges and all student participants.

Christopher B. Boyko

Program Officer