Did you know that 25% of our graduate students are self-funded? In Academic Year 2015-16, 14 of our 56 grad […]
Austin Milt’s PhD (2015, Armsworth Lab) work is featured in a nice, one-page color spread in a new book by […]
Graduate student Morgan Roche (Kalisz Lab) is one of Phipps Conservatory’s six current Botany in Action fellows. The fellows recently […]
Beth Schussler is co-PI on a $2,887,974 collaborative NSF S-STEM grant, which will provide scholarships and research opportunities for four […]
FWF alum Stephen Nelson appeared in an article in the Knoxville Mercury on September 21, 2016. Nelson did research in […]
Asst. Prof. Jessica Budke will be sharing her vision for the UT Herbarium with the wider Knoxville community at the […]
Prof. Dan Simberloff appeared in articles in both Wired and Slate in August. Wired featured Simberloff in a story about […]
EEB will be hiring a tenure track faculty member at the Assistant Professor level in the field of Ecosystem Ecology. […]
There will be no EEB Seminar this Friday (Sep. 2). The scheduled speaker (David Frank, from our own EEB & […]
The first speaker in EEB’s Fall 2016 Seminar Series will be Sara Branco from the Université de Paris-Sud, on Friday, […]
The popular Scientific American Blog has posted an article about bat research done by grad student Jessica Welch (McCracken and […]
Professor Daniel Simberloff and postdoc Christy Leppanen have been awarded a $16,500 grant from The Eppley Foundation for Research for […]
Joe Bailey recorded a podcast with Functional Ecology Senior Editor Alan Knapp about the July issue of Functional Ecology. This […]
Jessica Welch (Simberloff and McCracken Labs) has a new paper out in Biological Conservation. The paper is based on the […]
Current graduate students Michael Van Nuland, Rachel Wooliver, Ian Ware, Alix Pfennigwerth, Liam Mueller (all in the Schweitzer and/ or […]
Quentin Read’s (PhD 2016) recent paper in Oikos has been highlighted as an “Editor’s Choice” article. The study challenges how […]
Thirty years ago, Lou Gross composed a history of the Graduate Program in Ecology. He has now compiled a website […]
Rachel Wooliver (Schweitzer Lab) won the 2016 SSSA Francis and Evelyn Clark Soil Biology Scholarship from the Soil Science Society of America […]
Ian Ware (Bailey Lab) has been awarded a $5000 grant from the Lewis and Clark Fund for Exploration and Field […]
EEB’s GREBE (Graduate Researchers in Ecology, Behavior, and Evolution) was featured in the Knoxville News-Herald newspaper for their recent outreach […]
Kenna Rewcastle, a 2015 graduate in the College Scholars program, has been awarded a Fulbright US Student Program Grant for […]
EEB held its annual Awards Ceremony on May 2. Please click on each recipient’s name to read about each deserving […]
Many EEB grad students are part of the new student organization, Pipeline: Vols for Women in STEM. EEB Department Head […]
The Division of Biology has announced the winners of the 2016 Graduate Student Awards! Congratulations, all! Alexander Hollaender Graduate Fellowship: […]
Associate Professor Beth Schussler received an Alumni Outstanding Teacher Award at the Chancellor’s Honors Banquet this week. There were only […]
Rachel Fovargue (Armsworth Lab) has received a 2016-2017 Yates Dissertation Fellowship! The fellowships provide recognition and financial support to outstanding […]
Postdoc J. Mason Heberling (Kalisz Lab) has been awarded a two-year National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellowship. The proposal, entitled “Leveraging […]
Undergraduate Patrick McKenzie received an honorable mention in the highly prestigious Goldwater Scholarship program. Students cannot apply directly for the […]
Ian Ware (Bailey Lab) has received the Center for Tree Science Graduate Research Fellowship with the Morton Arboretum. The fellowship […]
Curt Richardson (PhD 1972) is the second person ever to graduate from UT with a PhD in Ecology, and his […]
John Reynolds (PhD 1973) was the third person to receive a PhD from the Ecology program at UT. It is […]
Justin Hendy (Small Lab) received an award for Outstanding Graduate Teaching during the 2016 Graduate and Professional Student Appreciation Week […]
Chloe Lash (Kwit Lab) has been awarded a fellowship to conduct research on ant seed dispersal this summer at Mountain […]
Jessica Budke has accepted our offer to become an Assistant Professor in EEB and the Director of TENN! She will […]
One of our alumna has been awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship this year: Sarah Caroline Daws (BS 2015)! In […]
Associate Professor Ben Fitzpatrick placed sixth in the Covenant Health Knoxville Marathon on Sunday! His time was 2:58:12. Congratulations, Ben! […]
Premal Shah, a PhD student who graduated from EEB in 2011, is now an Assistant Professor of Genetics at Rutgers […]
Jeff Martin will join the Department on 11 April 2015 as the new greenhouse manager. Jeff received his B.S. From […]
Professor Susan Riechert has received the 2016 SEC Faculty Achievement Award! The SEC award recognizes professors from the fourteen Southeastern […]
Jayne Lampley (Schilling Lab) is one of just 26 graduate students across UT who have received a 2016 Summer Graduate […]
Prof. Joe Williams is the organizer of a special issue of the American Journal of Botany and lead author on […]
“Zebra Mussels, Zika, Kudzu, and More: Winning the War Against the Aliens Among Us” McClung Museum Auditorium, 1327 Circle Park […]
A March 1 article in the UT Daily Beacon fights the granola-crunching stereotype of the EEB major and explains why […]
Alumna Sara Kuebbing (PhD 2014) has been awarded a Smith Fellowship from the Society of Conservation Biology. The prestigious David […]
FIRST REPORT OF HEMLOCK WOOLLY ADELGID EGGS HATCHING IN EARLY WINTER, POSSIBLY LINKED TO CLIMATE WARMING (View the related Tennessee […]
A number of lichen specimens collected by Ravenel in the late 1880s have been found in the UT herbarium (TENN). […]
EEB will host its First Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium on Friday, April 22 at 3:30pm in Dabney 488. Please come out to […]
The 66th Spring Wildflower Pilgrimage will take place April 19-23 2016. For more information, please select one of the following […]
Michael Van Nuland (Schweitzer Lab) has been awarded a Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant from the National Science Foundation. The goal […]
Brian O’Meara has received an NSF Career Award! “Reducing barriers for comparative methods” has been funded for $738,000 over 5 […]
The Ecological Society of America announced the six 2016 recipients of its annual Graduate Student Policy Award, and the list […]
Darwin “Day” is all next week at UTK: we have events Tuesday (croc evolution), Wednesday (invasion of land, with NIMBioS […]
Brian Looney (Matheny Lab) has one of his Russula mushroom photos from Thailand on the cover of the January 2016 […]
The best place to keep track of EEB Seminars this term is eeb.bio.utk.edu/news-events/current-seminars. We have great scientists coming in from […]
Sam Borstein (O’Meara Lab) is a coauthor on a new article in Science called “A pharyngeal jaw evolutionary innovation facilitated […]
Susan Riechert was quoted in a Washington Post article this week, to reassure residents about the harmless aggregation of thousands […]
Not only did Alix Pfennigwerth (Schweitzer Lab) win a scholarship to support her travel, lodging and registration to attend the […]
Tennessee’s Wild Side filmed a short documentary featuring some of the research Cassie Dresser (Fitzpatrick Lab) and her collaborators are […]
Kim Bush (BS 1973, Zoology) was honored as a Distinguished Alumnus at the Alumni Board Awards dinner on Friday, October […]
Alix Pfennigwerth (Schweitzer Lab) was awarded a Natural Areas Association Student Scholarship to fund her travel, lodging and registration to […]
Emma Willcox (PI, Forestry, Wildlife and Fisheries), Gary McCracken (co-PI, EEB), and Riley Bernard (co-PI, Forestry, Wildlife and Fisheries) have […]
Mike Gilchrist is the new chair of the Dean’s Faculty Advisory Council. Congratulations, Mike!
Beth Schussler has been awarded an NSF grant worth almost $500,000: RCN-UBE: Biology Teaching Assistant Project (BioTAP 2.0): Advancing Research, […]
Sergey Gavrilets is co-organizing a workshop on warfare this week at NIMBioS, called “Evolutionary approaches to the understanding of decentralized […]
Susan Kalisz joined EEB as professor and head of department on August 1. She comes to UT from the University […]
We keep track of where our PhD students go after they graduate, and we’re proud of what we see! After […]
Graduate student Zach Marion (Fitzpatrick lab) has a new paper out in American Naturalist with Jim Fordyce and Ben Fitzpatrick […]
Brian Looney (Matheny Lab) has been awarded a US Department of Energy Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) Award […]
The College of Arts & Sciences presented staff awards this year, and Marva Anderson received an award for Outstanding Academic […]
Paul Armsworth has been selected as a James R. Cox Professor. The three-year award provides Armsworth with a stipend of […]
Angela Chuang (Riechert Lab) has recently received awards from both the American Philosophical Society AND the National Geographic Society Young […]
Dan Simberloff was featured in the Korea Times. He advised the Korean government this week to set up regulations to counter […]
Riley Bernard (McCracken Lab) was on Local8 News on June 4, talking about her work with bats in the Great […]
Congratulations to Gordon Burghardt – his new paper is getting press on Science Newsline and Phys.org! The senior author of […]
Congratulations to Shelby Ward (Armsworth Lab) who was selected to receive the Margaret “Tina” Riedinger Societal Impact Award for the First Annual Women […]
Brian O’Meara is co-PI on a newly funded, nearly $1 million NSF grant entitled “Collaborative Research: ABI Development: An open infrastructure […]
Jessica Bryant (Classen Lab) has been awarded a Yates Dissertation Fellowship from the University of Tennessee. Congratulations!
EEB congratulates our graduate students who won awards from UT’s Division of Biology! Brian Looney received The Hollaender Fellowship Award. […]
Gary McCracken and Emma Wilcox (FWF) have received a Community Engagement Incentive Grant to build a bat house over in […]
EEB was once again well-represented at the annual Chancellor’s Honors Banquet. Congratulations to Paul Armsworth, Jessica Welch, and Kenna Rewcastle! […]
Congrats to Evin Carter, Jessica Moore and Michael Van Nuland, who were recognized for Graduate Research, and Riley Bernard, Cassie […]
EEB is excited to announce that Susan Kalisz will be joining us as our new head of department, starting August […]
The 2015 NSF Graduate Research Fellowships have been announced; Jordan Bush (Simberloff Lab) and Todd Pierson (Fitzpatrick Lab) each received […]
Eugene Wofford is an author on a new book coming out from the University of Tennessee press. Guide to the […]
Chelsea Miller (Kwit Lab) has been awarded Catherine H. Beattie Fellowship for Conservation Horticulture from the Garden Club of America […]
Associate Professor Paul Armsworth is featured in TN Today with a new paper in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment […]
Christine Hawkes’ seminar, which was scheduled for 3:30pm on Friday, February 27, has been cancelled, due to inclement weather.
On pages 6-7 in the March 2015 issue of National Geographic, there is a shout-out to J.R. Shute (MS 1984, […]
Both Katie Massana (O’Meara Lab) and Rachel Wooliver (Schweitzer Lab) won NSF East Asia and Pacific Summer Institute (EAPSI) grants […]
The McCracken Lab has a new paper in the Journal of Wildlife Diseases (online first). Riley F. Bernard, Jeffery T. […]
A 2015 Carlos C. Campbell Fellowship, from the Great Smoky Mountains Conservation Association, was awarded to Riley Bernard (McCracken Lab, […]
The 65th annual Spring Wildflower Pilgrimage is April 21 to 25, 2015. This event in Great Smoky Mountains National Park and nearby […]
Darwin Day is an international, annual event to celebrate the science of Charles Darwin and promote science education. UT has been […]
Congratulations to Brian Looney (Matheny Lab)! His NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant (DDIG) will be funded! DISSERTATION RESEARCH: Systematics, diversification, […]
Hey, Undergrads… don’t forget that there is a whole EEB webpage devoted to research opportunities (REU’s, summer field assistants, etc.) […]
Gordon Burghardt’s work is featured in a New York Times piece: Learning from Animal Friendships
Gary McCracken will be interviewing tomorrow (Wednesday 1/14) on the NPR radio show “On Point with Tom Ashbrook.” This show […]
The Matheny Lab has two new publications coming out this week, describing SIX new genera of fungi! Congratulations! Sanchez-Garcia et […]
PhD student Courtney Gorman (Bailey Lab), Jen Schweitzer, and Joe Bailey recently published an article in PLoS One that’s making […]
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