• Request Info
  • Visit
  • Apply
  • Give
  • Request Info
  • Visit
  • Apply
  • Give

Search

  • A-Z Index
  • Map

Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

  • About
    • Bylaws
    • Give to EEB
    • Alumni
  • People
    • Faculty
    • Emeritus
    • Graduate Students
    • Adjunct
    • Postdocs
    • Lecturers
    • Research Staff
    • Administrative Staff
  • Undergraduate Students
    • EEB Concentration in Biology
    • EEB Minor
    • Honors
    • Course Descriptions
    • Naturalists Club
    • Fellowships
    • Be successful in EEB
  • Graduate Students
    • Graduate Student Handbook
    • FAQs
    • Applying to Grad School
    • GREBE
    • Funding
  • Research and Outreach
    • Research Highlights
    • Undergraduate Research Opportunities
    • Outreach Events
  • Collections and Facilities
    • UT Herbarium
    • UT Etnier Ichthyology Collection
    • Hesler Biology Greenhouses
    • Natural History Collections Course
    • Fellowships and Awards
    • Biology Field Station
  • News & Seminars
    • Current Seminars
    • News
    • Newsletter
Landscape photo tree-covered hills and mountains

DEPARTMENT OF

ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Welcome to the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology. EEB is in the top 10% of ecology programs in North America based on research impact (Keville et al., 2017), ahead of peer institutions such as UCLA and UC San Diego. Our faculty and students come from around the globe. Our faculty is a mix of internationally known senior researchers and an energetic group of junior faculty at the cutting edges of their fields. We train graduate and undergraduate students with research interests in ecology, evolutionary biology, animal behavior, conservation biology, behavioral and population genetics, computational biology, development of theory for evolution and ecology, ecosystem and community ecology, global change biology, diverse areas of organismal biology, and biology education.

Declare EEB As Your Concentration in the Biology Major

MEET SOME OF THE

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

  • Armsworth Named Fellow of Ecological Society of AmericaApril 30, 2025
    The Ecological Society of America (ESA) announced Professor Paul Armsworth, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, among its cohort of 2025 ESA Fellows. He joins seven other new fellows and 10 new early career fellows.
  • Lessons to Learn from Fascinating FernsApril 25, 2025
    Jacob Suissa is known for his enthusiastic approach to teaching about botany, both in the classroom as a professor of evolutionary biology at UT and through the non-profit “Let’s Botanize” social-media platform. He has now channeled that green-world energy into a new book about the complex history of one of the planet’s most enduring plants.
  • Meeting Merges Networks for Microbial DataApril 25, 2025
    The Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (EEB) hosted a meeting of 34 scientists from around the world March 20–23, 2025, to build a synthetic vision for the field of plant-microbe interactions across space, time, and levels of biological organization: molecules, to organisms, to ecosystems.

Upcoming Events

Localist Online Calendar Software

Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

College of Arts and Sciences

569 Dabney Hall
Knoxville TN 37996-1610

Email: eeb@utk.edu

Phone: 865-974-3065

The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Knoxville, Tennessee 37996
865-974-1000

The flagship campus of the University of Tennessee System and partner in the Tennessee Transfer Pathway.

ADA Privacy Safety Title IX