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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...

A genetic sleuthing effort led by the University of Colorado Boulder that resulted in the identification of Colorado’s “true” native greenback cutthroat trout two years ago has come full circle with the stocking of the official state fish into Colorado’s high country. Roughly 1,200 greenback cutthroat fingerlings reared in federal...

The following article from the Stock lab has just appeared in the Early Edition of PNAS : Aigler SR, Jandzik D, Hatta K, Uesugi K & Stock DW. 2014. Selection and constraint underlie irreversibility of tooth loss in cypriniform fishes. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA; published ahead of print May...

Congratulations to Nichole Barger and Sarah Seiter for receiving a Chancellor's Award for Excellence in STEM Education for Faculty and Staff. Their proposal, "Transforming Graduate Training in STEM Education" was accepted!

Congratulations to Mike Breed for being named a Fellow of the Animal Behavior Society! Each year the Executive Committee of ABS elects a small number of fellows who have made distinguished contributions to the field. Fellows are limited in number, never exceeding 10% of the ABS membership. Mike's selection is...

Congratulations to EBIO graduate student Miranda Redmond for receiving the Campus Sustainability Award for Student Leadership. The annual campus sustainability awards program started in 1997 as a means to recognize commitment to reducing the burden that the CU campus places on the environment. Outstanding efforts make CU's successful and challenging...

Congratulations to Rebecca Safran for receiving the Innovative Seed Grant Program award (IGP)! The size of the award is $49950. See the project summary below. CU innovative seed grant – project summary The overarching goal of the proposed research is to understand the interface between social behavior and parasite/pathogen transmission...

As an undergrad studying ecology and evolutionary biology, Lizzie Lombardi found herself as one of the few “plant” people on a team of University of Colorado Boulder engineering students who were tasked with a lofty mission: build a robotic system that could garden in space. The aerospace engineering team was...

While working for an agriculture biotech company in the San Francisco Bay area, Tom Lemieux had a couple of benches where he would keep his “weird” plants. But his job entailed growing corn, tomatoes and petunias for research, so there wasn’t much room for the plants he enjoyed. He was...

The structure of some higher education institutions sometimes does not allow students to pursue dual passions. Such was the case with Aaron Hirsh, who loved biology and writing. Despite the “rules,” he found a way to combine his interests of writing and contributing to the project of working toward a...