Associate Professor Alan Lemmon was selected to receive the Developing Scholar Award, Florida State University’s premiere award for faculty who demonstrate the greatest levels of promise for scholarly research. Lemmon was honored for his scholarly achievements at the 2017 Faculty Awards ceremony and dinner, an annual event held to mark the highest achievements of FSU’s 2400+ faculty across all schools, departments, and divisions. Lemmon is an international expert in the field of bioinformatics, genomics, population genomics and biogeography, and was tapped for the award for his research and scholarly advances in the evolving field of phylogenetics.