The Academic Senate announces Alexander (Sandy) Johnson, PhD, as recipient of the Sixty Fifth Annual Faculty Research Lectureship in Basic Science for his work on the evolutionary mechanisms in gene regulation. The lecture, “Why Things Are the Way They Are in Biology: A Molecular Biologist Grapples with Evolution” will take place on Thursday, April 20, 2023, from 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. in Byers Auditorium at Mission Bay Campus with a reception to follow. There will also be a Zoom broadcast.