There is an August 23, 2017 article in New Scientist about hallucinogenic mushrooms and their insect-repellent properties.  The article mentions […]

EEB’s Brandon Matheny, together with Neale Bougher from the Western Australian Herbarium, authored a book that came out in June […]

Associate Professor Michael Blum joined EEB on August 1.  He has been researching rats in New Orleans, in the aftermath […]

The Fall 2017 EEB Seminar Calendar can now be viewed at http://eeb.bio.utk.edu/news-events/current-seminars/.  It may take a week for the seminars […]

EEB Volunteers get Dirty Digging Roots to Help with Invasive Species Research In July, a group of EEB faculty, staff, […]

A distinguished professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and mathematics at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UT), Gross is also […]

Professor Gordon Burghardt appears in the June 23 Knoxville News-Sentinel, in an article by Philip Kronk called, “Fear of snakes […]

Shannon Bayliss (Bailey Lab) has received a Penley Fellowship from the Graduate School at UT.  This award is quite new […]

The June 2017 issue of Natural History has a ½ page article featuring Adjunct Professor Todd Freeberg.  The article reports […]

Amanda Benoit (Kalisz Lab) has won a Botanical Society of America’s 2017 Graduate Student Research Award for her proposal, “Sit-and-wait […]

Sergey Gavrilets has coauthored a recent paper in PNAS called “Collective action and the evolution of social norm internalization.” Following […]

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 […]

The June 2017 issue of Discover Magazine has an article on play behavior in non-mammalian animals.  Called “The Play’s the […]

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: […]

Distinguished Professor Sergey Gavrilets has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Founded in 1780, the American […]

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

The Knoxville News-Sentinel has an article on the research that Karen Hughes, Brandon Matheny and Ron Petersen are doing on […]

The 3rd Annual Women in STEM Research Symposium was held Tuesday, March 21, 2017 in Hodges Library from 8:00 a.m. […]

EEB Professor Sergey Gavrilets has a new paper out in Scientific Reports called “The evolution of extreme cooperation via shared […]

EEB students have done very well again in the 2017 round of NSF GRFP (Graduate Research Fellowship Program) fellowships!  Our […]

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

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. […]

EEB’s Gordon Burghardt and Nina Fefferman were featured on WUOT’s Dialogue program (NPR 91.9 FM) on Wednesday March 1.  You […]

Marisol Sanchez-Garcia (PhD 2016), former Matheny Lab member and now a postdoc at Clark University, landed a paper on ectomycorrhizal […]

EEB adjunct professor and alumna Colleen M. Iversen (PhD 2008) has been named as an Ecological Society of America Early […]

Kimberly Sheldon was recently featured in Entomology Today for her work on climate and thermal limits in beetles. This is […]

This year marks the 20th year of Darwin Day celebrations at UT! Mark your calendars for the following events, and […]

A recent article in Ecosphere on “Academic productivity in the field of ecology” lists UT at #21 out of over […]

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

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). […]

The UT Herbarium (TENN) is now on social media! Like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter to hear […]

Prof. Gordon Burghardt’s research is highlighted in the cover story of the November 2016 issue of the Association for Psychological […]

Daniel Simberloff, the Gore Hunger Professor of Environmental Science, received the Honorable John C. Pritzlaff Conservation Award at the 2016 […]

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

A new paper by Gary McCracken and colleagues will be published online in the Royal Society journal Open Science  on […]

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 […]