Kendi Davies and Brett Melbourne global habitat research featured in Science Advances journal

March 20, 2015

Seventy percent of forested lands remaining in the world are within a half mile of the forest edge, where encroaching urban, suburban or agricultural influences can cause any number of harmful effects, according to a new study involving EBIO professors Dr. Kendi Davies and Dr. Brett Melbourne published in Science...

Professor Kendi Davies wins prestigious National Science Foundation Career Award

March 16, 2015

Dr. Kendi Davies has recently been awarded the National Science Foundation's Faculty Early Career Development Award. She is among a remarkably successful group of faculty across disciplines at CU to win one of these highly competitive awards in 2014-15. The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is the National Science...

Doctoral Student Miranda Redmond featured in Arts & Sciences Magazine

March 16, 2015

Ecosystems dominated by species of piñon and juniper, a spatially extensive vegetation type in the United States, are among the most predominant vegetation types administered by U.S. land management agencies. That means, among other things, that millions of acres of piñon-juniper woodlands have been subjected to numerous land-management techniques since...

Professor Daniel Medeiros featured in Arts & Sciences Magazine

March 13, 2015

Vertebrates built new head from old parts, study conducted by Daniel Medeiros ' lab finds. The findings, which appeared in the February 26th issue of the journal Nature suggest that the appearance of the vertebrate head skeleton "did not depend on evolution of a new skeletal tissue, as is commonly...

Undergraduate Sharif Durzi wins best Front Range student presentation

March 1, 2015

Sharif Durzi, a senior EBIO student, represented the Breed lab at the Front Range Student Ecology Symposium held at CSU. He earned first place in the undergraduate presentation competition for his talk on the effect of honeybee larva on fanning behavior in worker honeybees, with research he conducted this past...

Scott Ferrenberg published and awarded by British Ecological Society

Feb. 27, 2015

Scott Ferrenberg , who recently finished his Ph.D. with Jeff Mitton, found out that the editors of Functional Ecology selected his recent paper with Jeff, "Smooth bark surfaces can defend trees against insect attack: resurrecting a ‘slippery’ hypothesis" for receipt of the 2014 Haldane Prize for the best paper by...

Kika Tarsi Tuff receives production credit in NANPA Summit documentary

Feb. 27, 2015

Kika Tarsi Tuff , an EBIO graduate student was one of twelve U.S. students selected to participate in the College Scholars program with the North American Nature Photography Association (NANPA). Students selected for the program, traveled to San Diego to film, edit and produce a short documentary. Students were allotted...

Steve Schmidt receives College Scholar Award

Jan. 8, 2015

Steve Schmidt has just been awarded the Arts and Sciences College Scholar Award . The award grants two semesters of sabbatical to support and recognize the college’s most accomplished scholars and enables tenured faculty to focus on scholarly pursuits full-time. Steve is the second professor in the EBIO department to...

New York City, Central Park

Microbes in Central Park soil: If they can make it there, they can make it anywhere.

Oct. 1, 2014

Soil microbes that thrive in the deserts, rainforests, prairies and forests of the world can also be found living beneath New York City’s Central Park, according to a surprising new study led by Colorado State University and the University of Colorado Boulder. The research team analyzed 596 soil samples collected...

Christopher Weiss-Lehman wins the 2014 Pielou award

Sept. 12, 2014

EBIO graduate student Christopher Weiss-Lehman from the Melbourne lab is the winner of the 2014 E.C. Pielou award for the best student talk in statistical ecology at the Ecological Society of America annual meeting. Christopher's talk was entitled "Estimating extinction risk from presence/absence data with observational uncertainty: Development and evaluation...

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