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Dr. Noah Fierer , working in conjuction with researchers from North Carolina State University, has produced the first atlas of airborne microbes across the continental United States. The researchers collected outdoor dust samples from roughly 1,200 homes in all 50 states from both urban and rural areas using a powerful...

Dr. Noah Fierer , an associate professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and a fellow at the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, was inspired to study the levels of fungi and airbourne mold present in Boulder basements while walking through his south Boulder neighborhood after...

Helen McCreery, a graduate student with the Breed lab , was selected to receive the 2015 Graduate Summer Fellowship Award from the Graduate School. Graduate Summer Fellowship Awards are competitive awards sponsored by the Graduate School. These financial awards support the research, scholarship and creative work of graduate students from...

Kika Tarsi , a graduate student in the Davies lab , and Miranda Redmond , who is part of the Barger lab , were selected for the 2015 - 2016 Graduate School Dissertation Completion Fellowship. The Dean’s Graduate Student Research Grant Awards are competitive awards sponsored by the Graduate School...

Professor Alex Cruz just found out that his contributions to undergraduate training have been recognized by his receiving an "Outstanding Undergraduate Research Mentor" award sponsored by the Special Undergraduate Enrichment Programs. You can read more about Dr. Cruz, and the nomination letter submitted on his behalf here . Congratulations Alex!

This year, three EBIO professors have been awarded a BFA Excellence Award. This award is a longstanding tradition on the CU Boulder campus, and is one of the most prestigious teaching awards that can be bestowed upon a University of Colorado Boulder faculty member. This year, Professor Tim Seastedt was...

Carrie Havrilla, a graduate student with the Barger lab , has been awarded an NSF Pre-doctoral Research Fellowship to pursue her research on biological crusts. Congratulations Carrie!! Please see below for a brief synopsis of Carrie's study: The role of biocrusts in regulating dryland plant communities and exotic plant invasibility...

We're pleased to announce that several members of the EBIO department have won Campus Sustainability Awards. Professor Becca Safran was awarded a Green Faculty Award for her film course. Carol Kearns and Diane Oliveras were awarded "Civic Achievement" sustainability awards, while Jessica Henley of the Fierer lab received a CU...

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...

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...