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  • Photo of pink microscopic organism.
    Congratulations to Noah Fierer for his recent involvement in an article published in The New Yorker, regarding his work investigating the microorganisms that live in our household dust. You can read the full article here, as well as the
  • Photo credit to M Cantor Whitehead Lab Dalhousie
    Whales have a remarkable social structure much like that in humans and other primates. They form hierarchical societies. In the journal Nature Communications, EBIO graduate student Lauren Shoemaker and colleagues show for the first time that this
  • Thumbnail of Geoff Legault with his poster.
    EBIO graduate student, Geoff Legault from the Melbourne lab was selected as the winner of the Volterra award for best student poster in theoretical ecology for his presentation at this year's Ecological Society of America meeting. His poster was
  • Citheronia caterpillar eating leaf
    EBIO graduate student Tobin Hammer and Professor Deane Bowers were recently featured on the cover of Oecologia. How are herbivorous insects able to subsist on a diet that is often rich in toxic chemical compounds? In this issue Hammer and Bowers
  • Giardia
    In a new study published today in the journal Science, EBIO Professor Pieter Johnson and colleagues demonstrate how community ecology, which focuses on how species interact across different scales of biological organization, can provide
  • Sara Berkowitz and Angela Earp editing film projects
    Climate Change & FilmInnovative class uses film making(by Clare Spitzer, EBIO undergraduate). This class brings students of all majors together to learn about film while obtaining a solid science background on climate change through an
  • Household dust under a microscope. Photo by NAIAD.
    The humble dust collecting in the average American household harbors a teeming menagerie of bacteria and fungi, and as CU postdoctoral scientist Albert Barberán and EBIO Associate Professor Noah Fierer have discovered, it may be able to predict
  • Deane Bowers
    Deane Bowers - Curator of Entomology at the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History and Professor and Chair of the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the ²ÊÃñ±¦µä. Deane has been selected this
  • Dodo bird - public domain: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Frohawk_Dodo.png
    Ruth Hufbauer (Colorado State University), Brett Melbourne (EBIO), Ty Tuff (EBIO graduate student) and co-authors report on their study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences:  Three types of rescue can avert
  • Erin Tripp standing in a river
    Erin Tripp featured in CU connections.
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