Jessica Budke helps identify rare aquatic plants for TVA
https://www.tva.com/newsroom/articles/the-race-at-cutoff-reach
Wieteke A. Holthuijzen, a doctoral student in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, is the first author on a new research study in PLOS on the diets of house mice and their conservation threat on islands.
Read the article here: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0293092
From Plants to Prints: University of Tennessee Printmaking Artists Drawing from Herbarium Specimens
Margaret Oliver, collections manager at the UT Herbarium, wrote a piece for the Tennessee Conservationist about a collaboration between a printmaking class here at UT and the Herbarium. Read Margaret’s piece here: https://eeb.utk.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/The-Tennessee-Conservationist-_-Sept_Oct-2023_TENN_HerbariumArt.pdf
New study shows more species can be saved if policy-makers and private donors allow even a little more flexibility in where conservation funds can be spent
Paper by EEB Professor Dr. Paul Armsworth and colleagues “Multiplying the impact of conservation funding using spatial exchange rates”
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Fruit flies may enjoy taking carousels for a spin
EEB Alumni Distinguished Service professor Dr. Gordon Burghardt comments on the first documented example of locomotor play in an invertebrate. Read the article here: https://www.science.org/content/article/fruit-flies-may-enjoy-taking-carousels-spin
Blum Named Associate Dean for Research and Creative Activity
https://artsci.utk.edu/blum-named-associate-dean-for-research-and-creative-activity/