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Chris Ray has received a $5500 grant from the Office of University Outreach to support a citizen-science program focused on the American pika. The Front Range Pika Project is a collaborative effort led by Chris and her EBIO graduate students (Liesl Erb and Jennifer Wilkening), and supported by the Denver...

Read more about the grant at the daily camera: http://www.dailycamera.com/cu-news/ci_18285749?IADID=Search-www.dailycamera.com-www.dailycamera.com

Tim Seastedt's research on biological control of spotted knapweed, dubbed the “wicked weed of the West,” a “national menace,” and a “weed of mass destruction” is featured here in the current edition of College of Arts and Sciences Magazine.

Good news about one of our EBIO undergraduate students - Cacia Steensen. Cacia was the recipient of the Knowles Science Teaching Fellowship valued at nearly $150,000 over five years. Cacia will also be graduating with highest honors (Summa cum Laude) this semester. Read more about Cacia in CU Arts and...

Rob Guralnick has news from NASA and NSF . Rob is Co-Investigator on "Integrating global species distributions, remote sensing information and climate station data to assess recent biodiversity response to climate change" Awarded from the NASA Climate and Biological Response: Research and Applications program, $1.67mil total budget, ~188K to CU...

Joey Knelman , who is finishing his MA with Diana Nemergut and has been admitted to our PhD program, has been awarded a Fulbright-Hays grant to spend a year in Tromsø, Norway conducting research in rhizosphere ecology - the ecology of interactions between plants and soil microbes around plant root...

Mike Breed's Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior is featured here in the current Arts and Sciences Magazine and was just reviewed in Choice , a very important tool used by librarians in evaluating books for adoption.

Ian Buller is one of 275 Goldwater awardees selected on the basis of academic merit from a field of 1,095 mathematics, science, and engineering students who were nominated by the faculties of colleges and universities nationwide. Ian is a junior majoring in EBIO and plans to specialize in disease ecology...

Linda Rayor , a University of Colorado EBIO graduate and now a faculty member in entomology at Cornell University, is hosting " Monster Bug Wars " on the Science Channel. The show premieres tonight. Check out the preview video clips here . Check it out!

The Boulder Faculty Assembly will honor Steve Schmidt and Barbara Demmig-Adams tomorrow afternoon at its annual awards ceremony. Steve Schmidt will receive the BFA Excellence in Research Award , and Barbara Demmig-Adams will receive the BFA Excellence in Teaching Award . Congratulations to you both!