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- Congratulations to Rebecca Safran for receiving the Innovative Seed Grant Program award (IGP)! The size of the award is $49950. See the project summary below.CU innovative seed grant – project summaryThe overarching goal of
- As an undergrad studying ecology and evolutionary biology, Lizzie Lombardi found herself as one of the few “plant” people on a team of engineering students who were tasked with a lofty mission: build a robotic system
- While working for an agriculture biotech company in the San Francisco Bay area, Tom Lemieux had a couple of benches where he would keep his “weird” plants. But his job entailed growing corn, tomatoes and petunias for research, so there wasn’t much
- The structure of some higher education institutions sometimes does not allow students to pursue dual passions. Such was the case with Aaron Hirsh, who loved biology and writing. Despite the “rules,” he found a way to combine his interests of
- CU-Boulder researchers lead breakthrough study on microbes in butterfliesRed postman butterfly (Courtesy photo / University of Colorado)The internal bacterial makeup of a butterfly species through its three major life stages has been genetically
- For the first time ever, a team led by Toby Hammer at has sequenced the internal bacterial makeup of the three major life stages of a butterfly species, a project that showed some surprising events occur
- If you were a shrew snuffling around a North American forest, you would be 27 times less likely to respond to climate change than if you were a moose grazing nearby.That is just one of the findings of a new assessment
- Congratulations to Sam Flaxman for being awarded an Award of Excellence as an Outstanding Teacher for Technology in Teaching. In December 2013, students were asked to nominate an instructor who uses technology in outstanding ways to support
- In a paper appearing recently in the journal Ecosphere, published by the Ecological Society of America, the study's co-authors linked a 2.3 degree Fahrenheit temperature rise over four decades recorded at nine research sites to a decline in pinyon
- Erin Tripp's new book titled: Lichens and Allied Fungi of Great Smoky National Park, has recently been published by the New York Botanical Garden Press. Congratulations Erin!