Awards

National Academies - 1954

American Association for the Advancement of Science

About P. Sears Crowell

Prince Sears Crowell earned an A.B. from Bowdoin College and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University. He taught briefly at Brooklyn College and spent 12 years at Miami University of Ohio before joining the Indiana University faculty in 1948. Crowell was a member of the IU faculty for 31 years. An expert on invertebrates, he taught Invertebrate Zoology, as well as Introductory Biology, Embryology, Anatomy, and Ornithology.

Crowell’s fascination with marine biology dated back to childhood courses taken at the Children’s School of Science in Woods Hole, Mass. His interest in the subject deepened during his teen years, which were spent at Woods Hole collecting specimens for the Marine Biological Laboratory. The MBL continued to play a key role in Crowell’s life throughout his career. His research, which centered on Cnidarians such as hydroids, sea anemones, and jelly fish, was carried out predominately at MBL.

Crowell served on the board of trustees for the MBL and was a member of their Executive Committee for two terms. Crowell was a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and of the Indiana Academy of Science. His other memberships included the Society of Developmental Biology, the International Society of Developmental Biology, and the American Society of Zoologists, where he was their first program officer and the first managing editor of their journal, "American Zoologist".