Three of EEB’s own faculty members, Nina Fefferman, Orou Gaoue, and Xingli Giam, were honored with awards at the recent […]
EEB Graduate Student Wieteke Holthuijzen received the best PhD poster award at the 50th Annual Meeting of the Pacific Seabird […]
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Susan Kalisz, professor and head of the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and former post-doctoral fellow Mason Heberling, now […]
The Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department had their annual awards ceremony on Friday, May 11, 2018. Congratulations to: o 2018 EEB […]
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!
Congratulations to EEB graduate student Miranda Chen. Miranda was selected as a recipient of the 2018–2019 Shipley-Swann Graduate Fellowship. By […]
The Graduate Student Senate Awards were held on April 4. Check out all the winners from EEB! Graduate Research Mentor […]
Professor Louis Gross was honored with the 2018 SEC Faculty Achievement Award this week. The award recognizes professors from the […]
Austin Milt (PhD 2015, now a postdoc at the University of Wisconsin) won third place in Conservation Biology’s ‘Rising Star’ […]
Shannon Bayliss (Bailey Lab) has received a Penley Fellowship from the Graduate School at UT. This award is quite new […]
Amanda Benoit (Kalisz Lab) has won a Botanical Society of America’s 2017 Graduate Student Research Award for her proposal, “Sit-and-wait […]
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 […]
Graduate student Jordan Bush (Simberloff Lab) will receive the J. Paul Blakely Award of Excellence in the category of Science Writing, Graduate […]
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: […]
Distinguished Professor Sergey Gavrilets has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Founded in 1780, the American […]
EEB students have done very well again in the 2017 round of NSF GRFP (Graduate Research Fellowship Program) fellowships! Our […]
Four undergraduate students affiliated with EEB received 2017 Summer Undergraduate Research Internships. The Office of Research awards these each year […]
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. […]
Associate Professor Brandon Matheny received an award from the Daniel E. Stuntz Memorial Foundation to revise the taxonomy of species […]
Prof. Karen Hughes has been named as a 2016 fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). […]
Daniel Simberloff, the Gore Hunger Professor of Environmental Science, received the Honorable John C. Pritzlaff Conservation Award at the 2016 […]
Did you know that 25% of our graduate students are self-funded? In Academic Year 2015-16, 14 of our 56 grad […]
Rachel Wooliver (Schweitzer Lab) won the 2016 SSSA Francis and Evelyn Clark Soil Biology Scholarship from the Soil Science Society of America […]
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 […]
Undergraduate Patrick McKenzie received an honorable mention in the highly prestigious Goldwater Scholarship program. Students cannot apply directly for the […]
Justin Hendy (Small Lab) received an award for Outstanding Graduate Teaching during the 2016 Graduate and Professional Student Appreciation Week […]
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 […]
Alumna Sara Kuebbing (PhD 2014) has been awarded a Smith Fellowship from the Society of Conservation Biology. The prestigious David […]
The Ecological Society of America announced the six 2016 recipients of its annual Graduate Student Policy Award, and the list […]
Not only did Alix Pfennigwerth (Schweitzer Lab) win a scholarship to support her travel, lodging and registration to attend the […]
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 […]
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 […]
Congratulations to Shelby Ward (Armsworth Lab) who was selected to receive the Margaret “Tina” Riedinger Societal Impact Award for the First Annual Women […]
EEB congratulates our graduate students who won awards from UT’s Division of Biology! Brian Looney received The Hollaender Fellowship Award. […]
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 […]
Congratulations to Brian Looney (Matheny Lab)! His NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant (DDIG) will be funded! DISSERTATION RESEARCH: Systematics, diversification, […]
Alix Pfenningwerth, a graduate student in the Schweitzer Lab, won a Fellowship from the American Rhododendron Society this summer. Her […]
Michael Van Nuland, a graduate student in the Schweitzer Lab, just won the Francis and Eveyln Clark Soil Biology Scholarship […]
Riley Bernard, a PhD student in the McCracken Lab, just received notification of $5,000 in funding from Basically Bats Wildlife […]
Graduate student Cassie Dresser (Fitzpatrick Lab) has just found out that her work on Bog Turtle conservation in collaboration with […]
Gordon Burghardt was recently honored and his career celebrated at a symposium during the 2014 meeting of the American Society […]
The International Biogeographic Society Board has announced that Prof. Daniel Simberloff will receive the Alfred Russel Wallace Award at the […]
Leigh Moorhead, a graduate student in the Classen Lab, was recently awarded a Graduate Research Opportunities Worldwide (GROW) grant from […]
Jiang Jiang (NIMBioS fellow and Classen Lab postdoc) and Don DeAngelis (adjunct) have received the Ecological Society of America’s 2014 […]
EEB held its annual awards ceremony on Monday April 27. Congratulations to our departmental award winners! The Jim Tanner Award […]
EEB was well represented at the Chancellor’s Honors banquet on April 23! Faculty member Susan Riechert – 2014 Notable UT […]
EEB congratulates our graduate students who won awards from UT’s Division of Biology! Alexander Hollaender Fellowship Award Zachary Marion (EEB) […]
Daniel Simberloff was honored with the 2014 SEC Faculty Achievement Award, the SEC announced Wednesday. The SEC award recognizes professors […]
EEB Undergraduate Kenna Rewcastle has won a highly-competitive Sigma Xi Grant-in-Aid of Research award. Only about 20% of applicants receive […]
Dr. Joe Bailey has won a Visiting Professor Fellowship at the Center for Ecological Research at Kyoto University, Japan (June-Aug. […]
Anna (Annie) Furches won third place in the Thomson Reuters Web of Knowledge Ideation Challenge in April. Competitors submitted innovative […]
The UT Chancellor’s Office gives annual awards to recognize “extraordinary achievements” for faculty, staff, students, and other members of the […]
Photo from https://law.lclark.edu/centers/animal_law_studies/events/animal_law_conference/2010/speakers/ Gore Hunger Professor of Environmental Science Dan Simberloff (see also Wikipedia entry), a member of the EEB department, […]
The following EEB students received awards from Biology (open to all UTK biology departments): Hollaender Award Phillip Hollingsworth Science Alliance […]
Jaime Call, a staff member in the EEB main office, has been named as UTK’s most courteous employee for Sept. […]
Melissa Cregger, a PhD student in the Aimee Classen lab, was just awarded the 2011 Marvin L. Wesely Award from […]
EEB had its annual awards ceremony on Friday, May 6, 2011. Past EEB outstanding undergrad Jessica Welch took photos; department […]
The awards for excellence in progress towards a degree went to Romina Dimarco [not pictured], Mark Genung, and Katie Stuble.
The award for outstanding student paper went to Emmi Felker-Quinn.
The Jim Tanner award for outstanding dissertation was given to Premal Shah. One of Premal’s dissertation chapters (coauthored with advisor […]
The award for a biology GTA was given to Lauren Wilmoth for her teaching and leadership as a teaching assistant […]
This year’s recipients of the Cokinnius grad student awards were Melissa Cregger and Phillip Hollingsworth.
The outstanding teaching award was named the Sandy Echternacht award in recognition of his many years of excellent teaching here. […]
The award for outstanding EEB undergraduate went to Lauren Breza. Lauren started research at UTK just after high school, and […]
The UT-ORNL Science Alliance gives awards to outstanding graduate students. This year, half the awards to biologists across three UT […]
Staff members Marva Anderson, Jaime Call, Pearl Kirkland-Smith, Cheryl Lynn, and Anne Mintz all received awards for their service to […]
Assistant Professor Brandon Matheny sponsored two undergraduates, Pawel Kosentka (biochemistry concentration) and Sarah Sprague (psychology major), in an undergraduate research […]
PhD student Joshua Birkebak of the Matheny Lab received a Ben Woo Scholarship Award from the Puget Sound Mycological Society […]
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