MBL Director Nipam Patel has been awarded the 2021 A.O. Kowalevsky Medal for his comparative studies on flies, butterflies, and crustaceans. The Kowalevsky Medal is awarded annually by the St. Petersburg Society of Naturalists to recognize significant contributions to evolutionary developmental biology. The award was established in the 1910s in honor of Alexander Kowalevsky, a Russian embryologist and one of the founders of comparative developmental embryology. It stopped being awarded in 1914 due to World War I and the Russian Revolution, but was revived in 2001 for the 100th anniversary of Kowalevsky’s death. Patel accepted the award virtually at the Society for Developmental Biology’s 81st Annual Meeting in July.