News
- Tim Seastedt got the good news of a new, large NSF grant. "Ecosystem transformations along the Colorado Front Range: Prairie dog interactions with multiple components of global environmental change", $851,704.00 (3 years), Tim Seastedt PI, Jesse
- Barbara Demmig-Adams has been elected to membership in Leopoldina, the National Academy of Sciences for Germany/Austria/Switzerland. This is the highest academic honor awarded by an institution in Germany and more than 157 Nobel Laureates are
- David Stock has just received a 3 yr, $500,000 NSF grant for his project entitled "Causes and Consequences of Dentition Reduction in the Zebrafish Lineage."Abstract: The direction of evolution is determined not only by the environments to which
- Chris Ray has received a $5500 grant from the Office of University Outreach to support a citizen-science program focused on the American pika. The Front Range Pika Project is a collaborative effort led by Chris and her EBIO graduate students (Liesl
- Read more about the grant at the daily camera: http://www.dailycamera.com/cu-news/ci_18285749?IADID=Search-www.dailycamera.com-www.dailycamera.com
- Tim Seastedt's research on biological control of spotted knapweed, dubbed the “wicked weed of the West,” a “national menace,” and a “weed of mass destruction” is featured here in the current edition of College of Arts and Sciences Magazine.
- Good news about one of our EBIO undergraduate students - Cacia Steensen. Cacia was the recipient of the Knowles Science Teaching Fellowship valued at nearly $150,000 over five years. Cacia will also be graduating with highest honors (Summa cum Laude
- Rob Guralnick has news from NASA and NSF.Rob is Co-Investigator on "Integrating global species distributions, remote sensing information and climate station data to assess recent biodiversity response to climate change" Awarded from the NASA Climate
- Joey Knelman, who is finishing his MA with Diana Nemergut and has been admitted to our PhD program, has been awarded a Fulbright-Hays grant to spend a year in Tromsø, Norway conducting research in rhizosphere ecology - the ecology of interactions
- Mike Breed's Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior is featured here in the current Arts and Sciences Magazine and was just reviewed in Choice, a very important tool used by librarians in evaluating books for adoption.