Uploaded December 2025 | Updated September 2026, 13 hours ago
Celebrate this year's Friend of Darwin and Friend of the Planet awardees in this recording of our virtual celebration. Hear from the 2025 winners:
- Vanderbilt University’s Evolutionary Studies Initiative, directed by evolutionary biologist Antonis Rokas
- Katie Hinde, a biological anthropologist at Arizona State University and the founding director of March Mammal Madness
- Randolph M. Nesse of the University of Michigan and Arizona State University, a physician who is among the founders of the disciplines of evolutionary medicine and evolutionary psychiatry
- The CLEO Institute, a non-profit organization seeking to build climate literacy and mobilize climate action, directed by Yoca Arditi-Rocha
- Kim Cobb, a climate scientist and gifted climate communicator at Brown University (formerly at Georgia Institute of Technology)
- John Toohey-Morales, a Florida-based atmospheric and environmental scientist who was among the first broadcast meteorologists to emphasize climate change on the air.
Hosted by NCSE's Amanda L. Townley and Glenn Branch, with additional words from NCSE Board President Kenneth R. Miller.
Celebrate this year's Friend of Darwin and Friend of the Planet awardees in this recording of our virtual celebration. Hear from the 2025 winners:
- Vanderbilt University’s Evolutionary Studies Initiative, directed by evolutionary biologist Antonis Rokas
- Katie Hinde, a biological anthropologist at Arizona State University and the founding director of March Mammal Madness
- Randolph M. Nesse of the University of Michigan and Arizona State University, a physician who is among the founders of the disciplines of evolutionary medicine and evolutionary psychiatry
- The CLEO Institute, a non-profit organization seeking to build climate literacy and mobilize climate action, directed by Yoca Arditi-Rocha
- Kim Cobb, a climate scientist and gifted climate communicator at Brown University (formerly at Georgia Institute of Technology)
- John Toohey-Morales, a Florida-based atmospheric and environmental scientist who was among the first broadcast meteorologists to emphasize climate change on the air.
Hosted by NCSE's Amanda L. Townley and Glenn Branch, with additional words from NCSE Board President Kenneth R. Miller.
