Prof. Emeritus James Hopson receives award for seminal work on mammalian evolution

Prof. Emeritus James Allen “Jim” Hopson, a distinguished educator and paleontologist whose seminal work on the earliest forerunners to mammals shaped our understanding of mammalian evolutionary history, was awarded the prestigious Romer-Simpson Medal at the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology’s annual meeting in October. The society’s highest honor is a lifetime achievement award given each year to a scientist for “sustained and outstanding scholarly excellence in...