News
- 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
- Andrew Martin's Evolutionary Biology class at ºÚÁÏÉçÇøÍø is getting media recognition because of his modern teaching style of "flipping". With flipping, instead of a traditional passive-listening lecture, students are broken into discussion groups
- The Boulder Daily Camera, Boulder's daily newspaper, featured EBIO professors Pieter Johnson and Rebecca Safran for their recent NSF CAREER awards. More on the awards can be found on this page in the news updates on 11/30/11 and 11/29/11. Check out
- The National Science Foundation gave the Medeiros lab the EAGER (Early-concept Grant for Exploratory Research) award to turn the invertebrate chordate Amphioxus into a genetic model system. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) R03 helps support
- In each January issue, Choice Magazine publishes a list of the Outstanding Academic Titles of 2011, a list EBIO Professor Michael Breed found himself on for his work editing the Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior. Breed worked alongside Janice Moore to
- CU EBIO Assistant Professor Pieter Johnson was just announced as another NSF CAREER award recipient. Johnson's award marks the second NSF CAREER award for EBIO faculty this year. The $700,000 award spans for five years and will be applied to
- Nichole Barger, and Co PIs Jason Neff, Lisa Dilling, and Jana Milford have been awarded $570 from NASA/USDA for their grant entitled: Carbon management on public lands in the Intermountain West: Multi-scale analysis of carbon stock response to human