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EEB FACULTY
EEB faculty are a group of highly interdisciplinary researchers whose expertise cover the broad range of important research in ecology, evolution and behavior, and beyond. Faculty are quantitative and focus on big data and models, and their work is organismal based, including working on human-nature interactions. Faculty members’ research informs and enriches their teaching.
EEB in the News
- The Evolutionary Case for a Little Roughhousing
Gordon Burghardt, a UT Alumni Distinguished Service Professor, was recently featured in National Geographic for his work on rough‑and‑tumble play as a cross‑species behavior that supports healthy social and emotional development. - EEB Says Goodbye to Sandy Echternacht
Sandy came to the Zoology Department at UT Knoxville in 1975 and served Zoology and then EEB until his retirement. Sandy was the first head of the EEB Department (from 1996 – 1998) when it was formed and set the positive tone for growing EEB into what it is today. Sandy was a lovely human, and will be missed. This piece by EEB alum Stesha A. Pasachnik sheds a light on Sandy’s legacy. - Scholar Spotlight: Chuck Price
“I use physics to study how natural selection shapes the geometry of plants, in particular branching patterns in trees, and how communities of trees fit together.”
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