When graduate students successfully defend their thesis or dissertation, David draws an image of their organism (or something representing their work) on a copy of the only figure in Darwin’s Origin of the Species, and they sign their name beside the drawing.
Natasha Young
Graduated 2023. Nat loves weevils.
R. Antonio Gomez
Graduated 2021. Antonio is now a postdoc at the Syracuse University.
James M. Pflug
Graduated 2020. James is a bioinformatician who also studies beetles, especially rather smelly beetles (Chlaenius).
John S. Sproul
Graduated 2018. John is now a faculty member at Brigham Young University.
Kojun Kanda
Graduated 2017. Kojun works on tenebrionid beetles.
Kelly Farrell
Graduated 2011.
Chris Schmidt
Graduated 2009. Chris is now a Research Scientist at Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington
Alex Swanson
Graduated 2008. Alex worked on histerid beetles for his MSc degree. He is now an environmental lawyer at Rutan & Tucker, LLP.
Jeffrey Oliver
Graduated 2007.
Wendy Moore
Wendy worked on phylogeny of flanged bombardier beetles (Paussinae). She graduated in 2006, and it now an Associate Professor at University of Arizona.
Karen Ober
Karen worked on phylogeny of the carabid subfamily Harpalinae, and the evolution of arboreality. She graduated in 2001, and is now a faculty member at College of the Holy Cross.
Katja Schulz
Graduated 1999. Katja is now the Program Coordinator at Encyclopedia of Life.
Gene Hall
Graduated 1998.
Kevin Moulton
Graduated 1997. Kevin is now a Professor at University of Tennessee.