Congratulations to Jayne Lampley (Schilling Lab), who has received a Hollaender Fellowship from the Division of Biology! This Fellowship recognizes […]

There were some amazing entries from EEB for the April 16-20 EUReCA (Exhibition of Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement) event! […]

Congratulations to Miranda Chen (Schussler Lab) for winning the 2018 Extraordinary Community Service Chancellor Award!

The EEB Greenhouses will be having a plant sale on Tuesday & Wednesday, April 24 & 25, from 11:00 – […]

Thirty volunteers came out to help remove invasive plants from Deans Woodlot (near Alcoa Highway, south of UT’s main campus) […]

EEB undergraduate Justin Baldwin and EEB graduate student Maggie Mamantov (Sheldon Lab) both received honorable mentions in the prestigious National […]

Plant Community Ecology REU in Alpine Tundra – Review of applicants will begin April 15th The Spasojevic Ecology Lab at […]

The Graduate Student Senate Awards were held on April 4.  Check out all the winners from EEB! Graduate Research Mentor […]

The 19th Annual Knoxville EarthFest will be held on Saturday, April 28 from 10am-5pm at the Knoxville Botanical Garden. There will be talks and […]

Professor Louis Gross was honored with the 2018 SEC Faculty Achievement Award this week.  The award recognizes professors from the […]

In addition to the regular course offerings this fall, the following new courses may be of interest!   Course Number […]

Undergraduate field research: amphibians and microbes in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, CA. OVERVIEW An NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) […]

EEB Department Head Susan Kalisz has been elected as President 2020 of the American Society of Naturalists.  Congratulations! Alumnus Tadashi […]

Hiring – undergrad summer researchers at the KBS LTER The Kellogg Biological Station Long-term Ecological Research (http://bit.ly/kbslter) program investigates the […]

A paper describing the discovery of a new plant species, the Leatherleaf Tassel Rue (Trautvetteria fonticalcarea), was just published by […]

Two EEB grad students are competing in the 3-minute thesis competition next week: Jordan Bush (Simberloff Lab) and Sara Lipshutz […]

Josh Tewksbury, of Future Earth, is the EEB seminar speaker this Friday (Feb. 16), at 3:30 PM in 307 SERF.  This […]

Darwin Day at UT is hosting 2 events coming up this weekend and early next week! We have Darwin’s Birthday Party at […]

Professor Daniel Simberloff is one of two UT faculty members who have earned the distinction of being among the most […]

UT is home to a new Center for the Dynamics of Social Complexity (DySoC), led by  Director Sergey Gavrilets.  Other […]

The Armsworth Lab has a new open-access publication out in Nature Communications: “Factoring economic costs into conservation planning may not […]

The list of seminar speakers for the Spring 2018 Baker Center Energy and Environment Forums has been released!  Download the […]

Graduate Student Chad Stachowiak (Armsworth Lab), is a finalist for a 2018 Presidential Management Fellowship. “The PMF Program is a […]

Graduate Student Todd Pierson (Fitzpatrick Lab) has some of his beautiful photography on display (and for sale) at Trailhead Beer […]

In addition to the regular course offerings this spring, the following new courses may be of interest!   Course Number […]

In honor of the 50th anniversary of the seminal Simberloff and Wilson island biogeography studies, the Bulletin for the Ecological […]

Assistant Professor Charles Kwit was featured in the November 4 podcast of Tennessee Farm Table, entitled “The Wild Persimmon of […]

The Fall 2017 issue of Explorations, the EEB Newsletter, is now available!  You can view the newsletter as a printable […]

Adjunct Assistant Professor Ben Keck just published two articles, each describing a new species of fish that relied on specimens […]

The EEB Collections Committee is pleased to announce the following three awards from the Hesler Fund to support and enhance herbarium-based research […]

Tyler Poppenwimer (Gross & Bailey Labs) won an award to develop online teaching resources to enhance the teaching of Math […]

Professor Gordon Burghardt has a new article out in Journal of Comparative Psychology with Akira Mori called, “Do tiger keelback […]

Austin Milt (PhD 2015, now a postdoc at the University of Wisconsin) won third place in Conservation Biology’s ‘Rising Star’ […]

Associate Professor Mike Blum has a new paper out in the journal Ecosphere this month, called “Socioecological disparities in New […]

There is an August 23, 2017 article in New Scientist about hallucinogenic mushrooms and their insect-repellent properties.  The article mentions […]

EEB’s Brandon Matheny, together with Neale Bougher from the Western Australian Herbarium, authored a book that came out in June […]

Associate Professor Michael Blum joined EEB on August 1.  He has been researching rats in New Orleans, in the aftermath […]

The Fall 2017 EEB Seminar Calendar can now be viewed at http://eeb.bio.utk.edu/news-events/current-seminars/.  It may take a week for the seminars […]

EEB Volunteers get Dirty Digging Roots to Help with Invasive Species Research In July, a group of EEB faculty, staff, […]

Professor Gordon Burghardt appears in the June 23 Knoxville News-Sentinel, in an article by Philip Kronk called, “Fear of snakes […]

Shannon Bayliss (Bailey Lab) has received a Penley Fellowship from the Graduate School at UT.  This award is quite new […]

The June 2017 issue of Natural History has a ½ page article featuring Adjunct Professor Todd Freeberg.  The article reports […]

Amanda Benoit (Kalisz Lab) has won a Botanical Society of America’s 2017 Graduate Student Research Award for her proposal, “Sit-and-wait […]

Sergey Gavrilets has coauthored a recent paper in PNAS called “Collective action and the evolution of social norm internalization.” Following […]

Shelby Scott (Gross Lab) has been awarded a three-year 2017 National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship!  The NDSEG […]

1) Student Assistant – Herbarium Curation Technician, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology The TENN herbarium is seeking highly organized, detail-oriented individuals, […]

Maria Daniela Rivarola (Simberloff Lab) won the Sigma Xi Student Superior Presentation in November 2016, at the Sigma Xi Annual […]

Congratulations to all the graduate students, undergraduate students, and staff who received awards at the EEB Awards Ceremony on May […]

EEB congratulates our graduate students who won awards from UT’s Division of Biology!   These awards can be given to any […]

The June 2017 issue of Discover Magazine has an article on play behavior in non-mammalian animals.  Called “The Play’s the […]

Graduate student Jordan Bush (Simberloff Lab) will receive the J. Paul Blakely Award of Excellence in the category of Science Writing, Graduate […]

Finishing graduate student Michael Van Nuland (Schweitzer Lab) has a new paper out in Nature Ecology & Evolution with Joe […]

1) Summer Research Internship: Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary (Naples, FL) Please share with current undergrads or recent graduates looking for opportunities […]

1) Funded field technician position: Deer camera trapping Dr. Paige Ferguson, Assistant Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at […]

EEB will host the annual EEB Awards Ceremony at 3pm on Monday, May 1, in SERF 307.  Food and drink […]

Two members of EEB received awards at the Chancellor’s Honors Award Banquet on April 19, 2017: PhD candidate Cassie Dresser […]

Todd Pierson (Fitzpatrick Lab) has been awarded a Shipley-Swann Graduate School Fellowship for 2017-18. The fellowship recognizes graduate students across […]

Congratulations to the EEB grad students who won Graduate Student Senate awards this year. There are a few different categories: […]

1) Field research assistant for Hawaiian crow reintroduction program Get hands on conservation and field research experience. Come work with […]

Distinguished Professor Sergey Gavrilets has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Founded in 1780, the American […]

EEB’s GREBE (Graduate Researchers in Ecology, Behavior, and Evolution) collaborated with FOSEP (Forum on Science Ethics & Policy) to host […]

The Knoxville News-Sentinel has an article on the research that Karen Hughes, Brandon Matheny and Ron Petersen are doing on […]

1) REU Position Available – Northeastern Marine Science Center BOWEN LAB, Marine Science Center, Northeastern University REU POSITION AVAILABLE The […]

The 3rd Annual Women in STEM Research Symposium was held Tuesday, March 21, 2017 in Hodges Library from 8:00 a.m. […]

1) Field technician position: Wild bee research We are seeking a research assistant to conduct fieldwork this spring for a […]

EEB Professor Sergey Gavrilets has a new paper out in Scientific Reports called “The evolution of extreme cooperation via shared […]

EEB students have done very well again in the 2017 round of NSF GRFP (Graduate Research Fellowship Program) fellowships!  Our […]

Alannie-Grace Grant (Kalisz Lab) and Sam Borstein (O’Meara Lab) have been awarded Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grants from the National Science […]

Four undergraduate students affiliated with EEB received 2017 Summer Undergraduate Research Internships. The Office of Research awards these each year […]

Graduate student Amanda Benoit in the Kalisz Lab is seeking two motivated and capable undergraduate students to assist with an […]

Amanda Benoit, a grad student in Susan Kalisz’s lab, has received a Rosemary Grant Award for Graduate Student Research from […]

Alannie-Grace Grant (Kalisz Lab) won second place in the 3rd Annual Cynthia B. Peterson Poster Competition on March 3, 2017. […]

EEB’s Gordon Burghardt and Nina Fefferman were featured on WUOT’s Dialogue program (NPR 91.9 FM) on Wednesday March 1.  You […]

1) NSF REU position with Anderson lab (UGA) at RMBL Jill Anderson and Susana Wadgymar at the University of Georgia […]

1) REU Opportunity Summer 2017: “Research Experience for Undergraduates in Chihuahuan Desert Biodiversity” The University of Texas at El Paso […]

1) Michigan State University NSF Advanced Computational Research Experience for Students Summer 2017 One to three positions are available for […]

1) HJ Andrews Experimental Forest LTER REU position We are seeking applicants for an NSF-funded Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) […]

1) Summer Undergraduate Research Internship Program Students interested in pursuing research during the summer months may apply for funding through […]

1) Amphibian research assistants needed – Field research assistant: Field work involves surveying amphibian populations in and around the Fort […]

Marisol Sanchez-Garcia (PhD 2016), former Matheny Lab member and now a postdoc at Clark University, landed a paper on ectomycorrhizal […]

EEB adjunct professor and alumna Colleen M. Iversen (PhD 2008) has been named as an Ecological Society of America Early […]

Kimberly Sheldon was recently featured in Entomology Today for her work on climate and thermal limits in beetles. This is […]

This year marks the 20th year of Darwin Day celebrations at UT! Mark your calendars for the following events, and […]

1) REU opportunity at Miami University: Accepting applications! Ecology REU at Miami University for the summer of 2017 Undergraduate students […]

0) Doris Duke Conservation Scholars Program We would like to let you know about an exciting new program here at […]

A recent article in Ecosphere on “Academic productivity in the field of ecology” lists UT at #21 out of over […]

1) REU Program, University of Kansas Applications are now open for our NSF funded Research Experience for Undergraduate (REU) program, […]

1) Amazonian Peru Research Internships Now Available Fauna Forever, a non-profit organization leading projects in the rainforests of the Peruvian […]

Graduate student Jordan Bush (Simberloff lab) wrote a guest blog post for “Not Bad Science” on the Scientific American blog […]

1) Volunteer Field assistant for research on small mammals and plague Agency: Idaho Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, University […]

1) Summer Research Fellowships at UVA Field Station Blandy Experimental Farm at University of Virginia has some wonderful fellowship opportunities […]

Associate Professor Brandon Matheny received an award from the Daniel E. Stuntz Memorial Foundation to revise the taxonomy of species […]

1) Undergraduate Internship at Field Station in NE PA The Lacawac Sanctuary is a non-profit biological field station, 545-acre nature […]

1) NIMBioS REU The National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis (NIMBioS) is now taking applications for its Summer Research […]

Prof. Karen Hughes has been named as a 2016 fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). […]

The UT Herbarium (TENN) is now on social media! Like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter to hear […]

Prof. Gordon Burghardt’s research is highlighted in the cover story of the November 2016 issue of the Association for Psychological […]

Daniel Simberloff, the Gore Hunger Professor of Environmental Science, received the Honorable John C. Pritzlaff Conservation Award at the 2016 […]

EEB graduate students know how to communicate their science!  In Academic Year 2015-16, our 56 grad students published over 80 […]

A new paper by Gary McCracken and colleagues will be published online in the Royal Society journal Open Science  on […]