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The Collinge lab has been awarded $449,999 in continued funding from the National Science Foundation. This award will support their long-term research on vernal pool plant community ecology and restoration. Congratulations to Sharon Collinge and her lab!

Rachel Wildrick , a BA/MA student in the Safran lab , has been awarded a prestigious Crisp Fellowship which will pay her tuition during the 2012-2013 academic year at CU, enabling her to complete her excellent MA work. Competition for this fellowship from the Phi Beta Kappa Honor's Society was...

Noise pollution alters ecological services: enhanced pollination and disrupted seed dispersal , was just published in Proceedings of Royal Society B . Clint Francis, PhD 2010 EBIO, was the lead author, and one of our current graduate students, Nathan Kleist, was a co-author. Other authors include Catherine Ortega and Alex...

EBIO student Amanda Williams' masters thesis research was just published in Animal Behaviour , and has already picked up some attention: it was selected as an editor's choice for an " In Focus Featured Article " and was also picked up by New Scientist .

EBIO student Amanda Hund from the Safran lab has been offered a NSF graduate research fellowship. Other EBIO students, including Nathan Kleist from the Cruz and Guralnick labs, Ryan Lynch from the Schmidt lab , Kika Tarsi from the Davies lab , and Rachel Wildrick from the Safran lab, also...

The EBIO Graduate School has given 16 current students grants ranging from $1000 to $2000. Congratulations to Anna Peterson, Amber Churchill, John Mischler, Brian Stucky, Gaddy Bergmann, Scott Ferrenberg, Amanda Hund, Max Joseph, Samantha Weintraub, Abbey Paulson, Matt Wilkins, Chelsea Cook, Sarah Orlofske, Miranda Redmond, Natalie Robinson, and Susan Whitehead.

EBIO grad student Samantha Weintraub just received the Campus Sustainability Award for Student Leadership. She has put in a lot of time into sustainability efforts and EBIO and Ramaley Hall, not to mention the environment, have already benefited from her work. There will be a luncheon awards ceremony in her...

Jeffry Mitton , an EBIO professor at CU, and one of his Ph.D. candidates, Scott Ferrenberg, have found that mountain pine beetles have developed the ability to reproduce twice instead of once a year. Mitton and Ferrenberg are the first to report this, attributing the reproductive change to climate warming,...

The Organization for Tropical Studies (OTS) is a consortium of 63 universities and research institutions in the United States, Latin America and Australia. Two of EBIO's own, Mike Breed and César Nufio, were recently elected to prominent positions in the organization. Breed will be OTS's new Chairman of the Board...

Andrew Martin 's Evolutionary Biology class at CU Boulder is getting media recognition because of his modern teaching style of "flipping". With flipping, instead of a traditional passive-listening lecture, students are broken into discussion groups during class. Before class students may watch lectures online, listen to podcasts, or do readings...