Messages from:
Division Chair

Division Officers
Proposed Bylaws Change

DSEB: 1997 Spring Newsleter


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Message from the Chair

Carole S. Hickman


This is going to be short and sweet. We want you to focus on a single event in the main tent. We are changing our name to Division of Systematic and Evolutionary Biology. The new name recognizes the fundamental unity of systematics and evolution. The new name also reflects the new image of SICB and affirms our intent to welcome and include plant biologists.

The change was discussed and approved by the SICB Executive Committee at the SICB 1996 Annual Meeting in Albuquerque. The wording of the proposed change to Bylaws of the Division appears below. Send in the enclosed ballot to make the name change official!

Thanks to Jon Norenburg and Jackie Webb for organizing the lively "Systematics and Evolutionary Biology" contributed paper session for the Albuquerque meeting. The sole item on the agenda of the DSEB Business Meeting in Albuquerque was discussion of the role of the Division in SICB and in the broader biological community. We were pleased to welcome Charles O'Kelly, Program Director in Systematic Biology at the National Science Foundation, to this discussion as well as systematists who are past, current or incoming officers of the Divisions of Invertebrate Zoology and Vertebrate Morphology. With the change that will permit SICB members to hold voting membership in two divisions, we look forward to major growth and increased effectiveness in playing a major integrative role in the Society.

Our Nominations Committee (Marvalee Wake, Chair, Lynne Parenti, Past DSEB Chair, and Janice Voltzow) have been working hard on a dynamite slate of candidates to lead the Division. We will hold that election through a separate mail ballot once the membership has voted on the name change.

Proposed Bylaws Change


Currently the DSEB Bylaws read as follows:

Article 1: Name and Purpose

    Section 1: Name
    The official name of this division of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology shall be the "The Division of Systematic and Evolutionary Biology ."

Proposed Bylaw change:

Article 1: Name and Purpose

    Section 1: Name
    The official name of this division of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology shall be the "The Division of Systematic and Evolutionary Biology."

Note: This new name will be reflected throughout the Bylaws anywhere DSEB was previously mentioned.


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