Spring 2023 EEB honors graduate Colton Adams received a Fulbright student award. Read about his plans here: https://news.utk.edu/2023/05/17/11-ut-students-receive-fulbright-awards/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=2023-24%20Fulbright%20student%20awards&utm_campaign=TN%20Today

Jonathan Dickey, a graduate student in the Fordyce lab, investigates the mediation of pollinator network assembly by rhizospheric soil microbiota […]

Although it is likely most people have experienced ants at a picnic, they may not realize ants are important seed […]

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 […]

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

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

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 […]

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 […]

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

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 […]

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

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 […]

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

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: […]

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

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

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

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

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

Did you know that 25% of our graduate students are self-funded?  In Academic Year 2015-16, 14 of our 56 grad […]

Graduate student Morgan Roche (Kalisz Lab) is one of Phipps Conservatory’s six current Botany in Action fellows.   The fellows recently […]

The popular Scientific American Blog has posted an article about bat research done by grad student Jessica Welch (McCracken and […]

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 […]

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: […]

Rachel Fovargue (Armsworth Lab) has received a 2016-2017 Yates Dissertation Fellowship! The fellowships provide recognition and financial support to outstanding […]

Ian Ware (Bailey Lab) has received the Center for Tree Science Graduate Research Fellowship with the Morton Arboretum.  The fellowship […]

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 […]

One of our alumna has been awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship this year: Sarah Caroline Daws (BS 2015)! In […]

Premal Shah, a PhD student who graduated from EEB in 2011, is now an Assistant Professor of Genetics at Rutgers […]

Jayne Lampley (Schilling Lab) is one of just 26 graduate students across UT who have received a 2016 Summer Graduate […]

Michael Van Nuland (Schweitzer Lab) has been awarded a Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant from the National Science Foundation. The goal […]

The Ecological Society of America announced the six 2016 recipients of its annual Graduate Student Policy Award, and the list […]

Brian Looney (Matheny Lab) has one of his Russula mushroom photos from Thailand on the cover of the January 2016 […]

Sam Borstein (O’Meara Lab) is a coauthor on a new article in Science called “A pharyngeal jaw evolutionary innovation facilitated […]

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 […]

Alix Pfennigwerth (Schweitzer Lab) was awarded a Natural Areas Association Student Scholarship to fund her travel, lodging and registration to […]

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 […]

Angela Chuang (Riechert Lab) has recently received awards from both the American Philosophical Society AND the National Geographic Society Young […]

Riley Bernard (McCracken Lab) was on Local8 News on June 4, talking about her work with bats in the Great […]

Congratulations to Shelby Ward (Armsworth Lab) who was selected to receive the Margaret “Tina” Riedinger Societal Impact Award for the First Annual Women […]

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. […]

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 […]

The 2015 NSF Graduate Research Fellowships have been announced; Jordan Bush (Simberloff Lab) and Todd Pierson (Fitzpatrick Lab) each received […]

Chelsea Miller (Kwit Lab) has been awarded Catherine H. Beattie Fellowship for Conservation Horticulture from the Garden Club of America […]

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, […]

Congratulations to Brian Looney (Matheny Lab)!  His NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant (DDIG) will be funded! DISSERTATION RESEARCH: Systematics, diversification, […]

PhD student Courtney Gorman (Bailey Lab), Jen Schweitzer, and Joe Bailey recently published an article in PLoS One that’s making […]

Congratulations to Gary McCracken, Emma Willcox (FWF) and Riley Bernard!  They were recently notified of a $10,000 grant from the […]

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 […]

Last week, GREBE led the first annual graduate student retreat in the Smoky mountains. New and current students ventured up […]

Leigh Moorhead, a graduate student in the Classen Lab, was recently awarded a Graduate Research Opportunities Worldwide (GROW) grant from […]

Alix Pfenningwerth (EEB grad student) and Su’ad Yoon (EEB undergrad) both got NSF GRFP awards.  Brian Looney and Katie Massana […]

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 […]

Dr. Edward Schilling, Dr. Susan B. Farmer and graduate student Aaron Floden, have identified a brand-new species of trillium, Trillium […]

EEB congratulates our graduate students who won awards from UT’s Division of Biology! Alexander Hollaender Fellowship Award Zachary Marion (EEB) […]

Graduate Student Rafael Zenni has a new paper in Ecology Letters, entitled “Rapid evolution and range expansion of an invasive […]

Congratulations to Zach Marion & Ben Fitzpatrick. They just found out that Zach’s NSF Dissertation Improvement Grant will be funded […]

Orders must be placed by February 12.  Shirts cost only $12 each, and all profits will go towards GREBE-sponsored travel […]

A new paper by Hollingsworth et al. has come out in BMC Evolutionary Biology that provides the most complete phylogeny […]

A new paper by Gorman et al. has come out in AoB Plants, with 11 graduate and undergraduate student authors […]

Michael Van Nuland, along with other EEB grad students and undergrads just published a paper in PLoS One resulting from […]

In 2012-2013, thirty-nine EEB grad students submitted progress reports (1st years do not submit a report).  This is what they […]

A paper describing a new species of Clematis by EEB graduate student Aaron Floden appeared in the latest volume of […]

A recent paper that Ben Keck and Darrin Hulsey of UTK co-authored was published in the Proceedings of the Royal […]

A group of EEB-ers (and friends) went rafting on the Ocoee last weekend.  The trip was organized by Zach Marion, […]

The incoming cohort of EEB graduate students is one of the (if not the) largest ever!  Welcome to all 18 […]

Gary McCracken took 3 graduate students (Amanda Janicki, Riley Bernard, and Melqui Gamba Rios) to the International Bat Research Conference […]

Anna (Annie) Furches won third place in the Thomson Reuters Web of Knowledge Ideation Challenge in April. Competitors submitted innovative […]