Alumni

Anthony Brown, Ph.D., Genetics, 1969, is a CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization) scientist at the Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research in Canberra, Australia, where he studies the genetics of indigenous wild relatives of soybean and cotton plants. The centre's scientific staff also conducts research on the systematics, conservation, and use of Australian flora, using specimens from the newly merged Australian National Herbarium. Brown says more information about the herbarium is available at http://www.anbg.gov.au/cpbr/cpbr.html on the World Wide Web.

Rachel Taylor, B.S., Zoology, 1995, completed a year-long graduate program in natural science illustration at UC Santa Cruz in 1996. She now resides in Chico, Calif., where she is a freelance illustrator for editorial magazines, publishers, and museums. Her clients include National Geographic, Scientific American, and the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum. The cover of the June 1997 issue of Systemic Biology features Taylor's drawing of a turtle, which accompanies an article on turtle phylogeny by lead author H. Bradley Shaffer in the Section of Evolution and Ecology.