Andrea Quattrini has received the Presidential Early Career Award. Andrea, a coral researcher who received her Ph.D. from the Department of Biology in 2014, is a Curator of Invertebrates at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, and one of only 5 scientists from the Smithsonian Institution to receive the award. Andrea  is a research zoologist at the National Museum of Natural History applying new genomic tools to resolve the evolution of corals and sea anemones. Her work has illuminated how these ecosystem engineers responded to climate change and mass extinctions over millions of years, while forecasting the future of coral reefs under global change. 

Here is the press release: https://www.whitehouse.gov/ostp/news-updates/2025/01/14/president-biden-honors-nearly-400-federally-funded-early-career-scientists/