<p>Princeton</a> University - Couzin named Searle Scholar</p>
<p>Iain Couzin, an assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at Princeton, has been named a 2008 Searle Scholar for his innovative research.</p>
<p>Couzin and 14 others from universities and research institutes in the United States were selected for conducting scientific investigations over the long term with the potential for making significant contributions to biology. Each Searle Scholar will receive $300,000 to support research programs over the next three years.</p>
<p>Couzin studies collective behavior in animal groups, as exhibited in flocks of birds, schools of fish and swarms of insects. Recently, he led a team that concluded that the collective motion of locusts is driven by cannibalism.</p>
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<p>The Searle Scholars Program makes grants to selected universities and research centers to support the independent research of exceptional young faculty in the biomedical sciences and chemistry.</p>
<p>Of the fifteen scholars named this year, the Ivy League had four. In addition to Princeton, Cornell, Harvard and UPenn also had one scholar each.</p>