Faculty, staff and students from EEB gathered on May 18, 2023 to celebrate the end of the semester, recognize award-winners, […]
Read about Dr. David Etnier’s Snail Darter legacy here: https://higherground.utk.edu/snail-darter/
Three of EEB’s own faculty members, Nina Fefferman, Orou Gaoue, and Xingli Giam, were honored with awards at the recent […]
In the years since social media became part of our daily lives, an increased number of individuals are self-organizing online […]
A road sign in Bursa, Turkey, warns drivers of the presence of dung beetles, stating ‘Attention! It may come out, […]
Each year, Dean Theresa Lee and members of her cabinet, with help from department heads, recognize faculty in the College […]
Birds respond to a half-century soundscape reversion during the COVID-19 shutdown When the novel coronavirus swept across the country, forcing […]
Across the planet’s terrestrial surface lives a layer of organisms that cannot be seen with the naked eye. Lichens and […]
Charles Kwit, assistant professor of ecology, and his graduate students Chloe Lash and Chelsea Miller studied the microbial communities of […]
Susan Kalisz, the College of Arts and Sciences Excellence Professor and head of the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, […]
Sergey Gavrilets, a distinguished professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, has received more than $1.1 million in […]
Stephanie Kivlin, an assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, coauthored a paper titled “Fungal aerobiota are not affected by […]
The 2019 College of Arts and Sciences Faculty Awards banquet took place Thursday, December 5 at the Holiday Inn Downtown. […]
Ourou Gaoue, an assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, coauthored a paper titled “Non-random medicinal plants selection in the […]
Jessica Budke, an assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and director of UT’s Herbarium, published a paper titled “Evolution […]
For a plant to thrive, it needs the help of a friendly fungus–preferably one that will dig its way deep […]
Elizabeth Derryberry, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, received recognition in a timeline of important female ornithologists in a […]
Understanding the distributions and functions of microscopic fungi and bacteria is what drives new Assistant Professor Stephanie Kivlin’s research. “Microbes […]
What’s the difference? How is it that a pest or pathogen can kill its host in one place but not […]
Professor Louis Gross was honored with the 2018 SEC Faculty Achievement Award this week. The award recognizes professors from the […]
Associate Professor Michael Blum joined EEB on August 1. He has been researching rats in New Orleans, in the aftermath […]
A distinguished professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and mathematics at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UT), Gross is also […]
EEB will be hiring a tenure track faculty member at the Assistant Professor level in the field of Ecosystem Ecology. […]
Jessica Budke has accepted our offer to become an Assistant Professor in EEB and the Director of TENN! She will […]
Susan Kalisz joined EEB as professor and head of department on August 1. She comes to UT from the University […]
Paul Armsworth has been selected as a James R. Cox Professor. The three-year award provides Armsworth with a stipend of […]
Eugene Wofford has co-authored a new book called Woody Plants of Kentucky and Tennessee: The Complete Winter Guide to Their […]
Gary McCracken took 3 graduate students (Amanda Janicki, Riley Bernard, and Melqui Gamba Rios) to the International Bat Research Conference […]
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded $18.6 million to the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, for the National Institute for […]
The most popular paper in the Quarterly Review of Biology over the past three years, based on downloads, is “Homosexuality […]
Research Assistant Professor Alison Boyer was interviewed today on local NPR station WUOT about her recent PNAS paper about extinctions […]
EEB faculty member Charlie Kwit was recently featured in a video by the Shedd Aquarium about rock iguanas. For more information about […]
The UT Chancellor’s Office gives annual awards to recognize “extraordinary achievements” for faculty, staff, students, and other members of the […]
UTK Distinguished Professor Sergey Gavrilets’ work on the evolution of monogamy, published in PNAS, has been featured in an article […]
Our esteemed colleague Hal DeSelm died July 12 at 7pm. Hal’s wife of 63 years, Bee, and their daughter Diane […]
Faculty member Brian O’Meara is giving a phyloseminar on March 30 at 2 pm eastern on “Making comparative methods as […]
Alison Boyer, a new Research Assistant Professor in EEB, just published a paper in last week’s issue of Science. The […]
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