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Deep Sea Researcher Michael Rex to Receive Chancellor’s Award for Distinguished Scholarship (Boston, MA) Michael Rex, professor of biology, will receive the 2002
Chancellor’s Award for Distinguished Scholarship at the University
of Massachusetts Boston commencement exercises held on Saturday, June
1, at the Bayside Exposition Center, 10:30 a.m. Professor Rex is known
for his outstanding research in deep-sea ecology and biodiversity. Evaluated by a committee of his peers, Rex was commended for research that “has changed the way marine biologists think about biodiversity in the deep ocean.” With his record of consistent journal publications, active conference participation, and numerous grants, Rex is recognized by his peers as producing cutting edge research. Evaluators wrote that Rex’s scholarship has not only “profoundly elucidated our understanding of deep-sea marine ecology,” but it has also “generated an appreciation of the rich diversity in a cold, dark nether world once presumed to be desolute.” Rex’s research focuses on the ecology and evolution of deep-sea communities. He has been awarded several grants from the National Science Foundation for such projects as examining the genetic variations in deep-sea mollusks and the ecological implications of the body-size of deep-sea gastropods. These projects are part of Rex’s long-term research goal to formulate a model of evolution in deep-sea invertebrates. Rex’s scholarship was recently recognized by the U.S. Department of the Interior with a two-year appointment to serve on the Outer Continental Shelf Scientific Committee of the Minerals Management Advisory Board. In addition to publishing in top journals, Rex is a reviewer for various journals such as Science, Nature, The America Naturalist, Marine Biology, Deep-Sea Research, to name a few. He is also a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Ecological Society of America, the Society for the Study of Evolution, the Society of Systematic Biology, and the American Society of Naturalists. Rex is an associate in the Department of Mollusks at Harvard University’s Museum of Comparative Zoology. He received his A.B., Phi Beta Kapp, from Indiana University in 1968 and his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1972. #### 6.01.02
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