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The EBIO department's honors program offers select dedicated students the opportunity to peruse research interests, compile and defend a thesis paper. Several papers are accepted and published in respected scientific journals. the department's 2015 honors students are highlighted below. Interested in graduating with honors? Check out our Honors Program !...

Scott Ferrenberg and Sasha Reed, EBIO alumni, have published the findings of a 15-year experiment in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. This study focused on biocrusts, and how increased precipitation and increased temperature cause these crusts to degrade and die. They also examined the difference between this kind...

Ketchum Arts & Sciences is a four-story building in the heart of campus. Designed by Charles Klauder and constructed in 1938, it is considered one of the best examples of the Tuscan Vernacular architecture on the CU Boulder campus. EBIO has held classes in Ketchum for years, notably, Ecology, GenBio...

Students from Insect Biology (EBIO 4660/5660, taught by Deane Bowers and Tim Szewczyk) lab dyeing silk (produced by caterpillars of the silk moth, Bombyx mori ) with a dye made from cochineal insects (a small white scale insect that feeds on prickly pear cactus). The dark pink is from the...

November 25, 2015 • Natural Sciences North American bison adjust their diet seasonally in order to take full advantage of the growing season when grasses become less nutritious, researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder have discovered. The findings of a new study indicate that bison are not entirely reliant...

Congratulations to Lauren Shoemaker and Topher Weiss-Lehman, who are recipients of the 2016 Dean's Grants! It is very rare when one department has multiple recipients, but EBIO has done this three years in a row, showing what a talented group of graduate students we have. Well done Lauren and Topher!

Flowers from the Petunieae: a colorful system for research and education. Clockwise from top right: Petunia, Calibrachoa, Nierembergia, Brunfelsia Stacey Smith , assistant professor in the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology department has just been awarded her NSF Career grant . The NSF CAREER program offers the National Science Foundation's most...

Congratulations to Noah Fierer for his recent involvement in an article published in The New Yorker, regarding his work investigating the microorganisms that live in our household dust. You can read the full article here , as well as the BBC and Discovery News articles on this research. Some of...

Whales have a remarkable social structure much like that in humans and other primates. They form hierarchical societies. In the journal Nature Communications, EBIO graduate student Lauren Shoemaker and colleagues show for the first time that this hierarchical structure is formed by whale song. Their collaborative paper stems from a...

EBIO graduate student, Geoff Legault from the Melbourne lab was selected as the winner of the Volterra award for best student poster in theoretical ecology for his presentation at this year's Ecological Society of America meeting. His poster was entitled "The distribution of birth and death in Daphnia magna: Implications...