Department News
William Fink
- Professor and Curator
Museum of Zoology - Ph.D., George Washington University, 1976
Contact information
- University of Michigan
1051A Museums Building
1109 Geddes Ave
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1079 - Phone: (734) 764-9928
- Fax: (734) 763-4080
- Email: wfink@umich.edu
Fields of study
Phylogenetics and ichthyology
Academic background
Dr. Fink received his PhD from George Washington University in 1976; his dissertation on deep-sea stomiiform fishes was directed by Dr. Stanley Weitzman of the Smithsonian Institution. He then joined the faculty of Harvard University where he was also curator of fishes in the Museum of Comparative Zoology. At the University of Michigan he is a Professor of Biology and Curator of Fishes in the Museum of Zoology. Dr. Fink is a past President of the Society of Systematic Biologists, former Editor of Copeia, Founding Fellow of the Hennig Society, and was awarded the LS&A Excellence in Education Award in 1999.
Graduate student
Fish Division, U-M Museum of Zoology
UM affiliation
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
- Museum of Zoology
Related news
The UMMZ Fish Division is part of an NSF grant involving 15 institutions to collaboratively georeference the estimated 800,000 fish collection locality records in U.S. fish collections.
Listen in as Professor and Curator Bill Fink leads a guided tour through the Museum of Zoology’s fish collection on Michigan Radio’s “The Environment Report.”
John S. Sparks, U-M EEB Ph.D. alumnus (2001) is blogging from Madagascar for the New York Times in their Scientist at Work, Notes from the Field blog.
