Fall 2007

Dear Prospective Graduate Student,

Thank you for your interest, I am delighted to hear from you! This letter provides information about my research program, possibilities for prospective students, and some background on the graduate program that I am associated with at the University of Colorado, Boulder -- the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology graduate program.  After reading this letter, please browse the Davies lab web site and then contact me with information about yourself and your research interests, including your CV and a brief outline of your potential research area.

I hope to admit two graduate students in Fall 2008. I will be recruiting only students wishing to obtain PhDs, and those students should already have a Masters Degree (by research) or equivalent research experience. Students will develop an independent research program related to my research. My research program focuses on empirical spatial questions in community ecology about the structure and dynamics of communities, and how these depend on landscape structure and spatial scale, with a focus on invasion and extinction. I encourage you to read more about my research interests and/or browse some of my recent publications.

In the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology graduate program, students are admitted by a graduate committee, as students are not accepted without financial support. Accepted students are promised academic year support via Teaching Assistantships (TAs). My preference will be to have graduate students work as a teaching assistant (TA) for their first year or two, after which I hope that I will be able to provide funds for Research Assistantships (RAs).

I look forward to hearing more from you! Please feel free to contact me if you have questions.

Sincerely,

Kendi Davies