American Society of Naturalists

The Presidential Award is chosen by the President of the American Society of Naturalists from all of the papers published in The American Naturalist during the preceding calendar year. The winner of the award for 2025 is “Multitrophic Higher-Order Interactions Modulate Species Persistence” by Lisa Buche, Ignasi Bartomeus, and Oscar Godoy. Congratulations!

The ASN Student Research Awards support research by student members that advances the goals of the society: the conceptual unification of ecology, evolution, and behavior. 

This year’s winners are Emily Burgess, Nina Ferrari, Subhashis Halder, Aidan Harrington, Robert Hechler, Yuxin Hou, Rishiddh Jhaveri, Kyla Knauf, Peter Searle, and Florencia Vilches. Congratulations!

Congratulations to the recipients of the 2025 ASN Early Career Investigator Award, Elizabeth Carlen, Anna Dewar, Ashwini Ramesh, and Jessie Williamson!

Congratulations to the recipient of the 2025 Distinguished Naturalist Award, Andrew Suarez!

Congratulations to the recipient of the 2025 ASN Award for Distinguished Achievement in the Conceptual Unification of the Biological Sciences, Stu West!

The recipient of the 2025 Student Paper Award is Soleille M. Miller for her paper “Genetic and Phenotypic Consequences of Local Transitions between Sexual and Parthenogenetic Reproduction in the Wild”

Congratulations to Jen Lau (2027 ASN President), Martha Muñoz (2027 ASN Vice President), and Stephen Proulx (2026-28 ASN Treasurer)

The ASN election will begin in early March! Please check out the candidates’ statements...

Honorees for the ASN Outstanding Student Poster Award at Asilomar, January 2025: Matt Jenkins with Haley Gee

Honorees for the ASN Outstanding Student Poster Award, June 2024: Phoebe Cunningham with Steven Casey and Sophia Haase Cox