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- The Johnson lab researchers spent three years sampling 345 wetlands and recording malformations in amphibians— which included missing, misshapen or extra sets of hind legs. These deformaties caused by parasitic infections, were recorded in 24,215
- The Medeiros lab has just been awarded a National Science Foundation grant. It is a 3 yr sole-Principal Investigator grant for $530,000. The grant will be used to study the origin of the vertebrate head skeleton, using lampreys and
- The Collinge lab has been awarded $449,999 in continued funding from the National Science Foundation. This award will support their long-term research on vernal pool plant community ecology and restoration. Congratulations to Sharon
- Rachel Wildrick, a BA/MA student in the Safran lab, has been awarded a prestigious Crisp Fellowship which will pay her tuition during the 2012-2013 academic year at CU, enabling her to complete her excellent MA work. Competition for this fellowship
- EBIO student Amanda Williams' masters thesis research was just published in Animal Behaviour, and has already picked up some attention: it was selected as an editor's choice for an "In Focus Featured Article" and was also picked up by New
- EBIO grad student Samantha Weintraub just received the Campus Sustainability Award for Student Leadership. She has put in a lot of time into sustainability efforts and EBIO and Ramaley Hall, not to mention the environment, have already benefited
- The EBIO Graduate School has given 16 current students grants ranging from $1000 to $2000. Congratulations to Anna Peterson, Amber Churchill, John Mischler, Brian Stucky, Gaddy Bergmann, Scott Ferrenberg, Amanda Hund, Max Joseph, Samantha Weintraub
- EBIO student Amanda Hund from the Safran lab has been offered a NSF graduate research fellowship. Other EBIO students, including Nathan Kleist from the Cruz and Guralnick labs, Ryan Lynch from the Schmidt lab, Kika Tarsi from the Davies lab, and
- Jeffry Mitton, an EBIO professor at CU, and one of his Ph.D. candidates, Scott Ferrenberg, have found that mountain pine beetles have developed the ability to reproduce twice instead of once a year. Mitton and Ferrenberg are the first to report this
- The Organization for Tropical Studies (OTS) is a consortium of 63 universities and research institutions in the United States, Latin America and Australia. Two of EBIO's own, Mike Breed and César Nufio, were recently elected to prominent positions