The 2015 NSF Graduate Research Fellowships have been announced; Jordan Bush (Simberloff Lab) and Todd Pierson (Fitzpatrick Lab) each received […]
Eugene Wofford is an author on a new book coming out from the University of Tennessee press. Guide to the […]
Chelsea Miller (Kwit Lab) has been awarded Catherine H. Beattie Fellowship for Conservation Horticulture from the Garden Club of America […]
Associate Professor Paul Armsworth is featured in TN Today with a new paper in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment […]
Christine Hawkes’ seminar, which was scheduled for 3:30pm on Friday, February 27, has been cancelled, due to inclement weather.
On pages 6-7 in the March 2015 issue of National Geographic, there is a shout-out to J.R. Shute (MS 1984, […]
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, […]
The 65th annual Spring Wildflower Pilgrimage is April 21 to 25, 2015. This event in Great Smoky Mountains National Park and nearby […]
Darwin Day is an international, annual event to celebrate the science of Charles Darwin and promote science education. UT has been […]
Congratulations to Brian Looney (Matheny Lab)! His NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant (DDIG) will be funded! DISSERTATION RESEARCH: Systematics, diversification, […]
Hey, Undergrads… don’t forget that there is a whole EEB webpage devoted to research opportunities (REU’s, summer field assistants, etc.) […]
Gordon Burghardt’s work is featured in a New York Times piece: Learning from Animal Friendships
Gary McCracken will be interviewing tomorrow (Wednesday 1/14) on the NPR radio show “On Point with Tom Ashbrook.” This show […]
The Matheny Lab has two new publications coming out this week, describing SIX new genera of fungi! Congratulations! Sanchez-Garcia et […]
PhD student Courtney Gorman (Bailey Lab), Jen Schweitzer, and Joe Bailey recently published an article in PLoS One that’s making […]
UPDATE: The local NPR station, WUOT, aired an interview with Gordon Burghardt on October 24 for the program, Changing Course. […]
Congratulations to Gary McCracken, Emma Willcox (FWF) and Riley Bernard! They were recently notified of a $10,000 grant from the […]
EEB Researcher Veronica Brown, from the McCracken Lab, appeared on the WATE Evening News shortly before 5pm on Wednesday September […]
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 […]
Dan Simberloff’s critique of the ‘novel ecosystem’ concept, recently published as an opinion piece in TREE, has been featured in […]
Gordon Burghardt was recently honored and his career celebrated at a symposium during the 2014 meeting of the American Society […]
Sergey Gavrilets and collaborators have a new paper out in Molecular Ecology that made the cover of the journal. Congratulations! […]
Sergey Gavrilets and two colleagues published a study in the Quarterly Review of Biology on the biology of same-sex attraction, […]
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 […]
Alix Pfenningwerth (EEB grad student) and Su’ad Yoon (EEB undergrad) both got NSF GRFP awards. Brian Looney and Katie Massana […]
EEB faculty Joe Williams and Brian O’Meara, together with former grad student Mackenzie Taylor, have a new article out in […]
Joseph Bailey was named UT Quest Scholar of the Week on May 2, in recognition of his forthcoming visiting professorship […]
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 […]
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) […]
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 […]
Graduate Student Rafael Zenni has a new paper in Ecology Letters, entitled “Rapid evolution and range expansion of an invasive […]
Sergey Gavrilets recently had paper on “altruistic bullies” come out in Nature Communications: http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2014/140326/ncomms4526/full/ncomms4526.html The work has been discussed in Time Magazine: […]
The Herbarium has completed its move and is in operation on the first floor of the newly renovated Temple Hall […]
Three five-day National Science Foundation Ideas Labs —one for biology, one for engineering, and one for geosciences—are being held this […]
The EEB website now has a page devoted to Undergraduate Research Opportunities (things like REU’s etc): eeb.bio.utk.edu/undergraduate-research-opportunities/ To submit opportunities […]
Darwin Day in TN was started in 1997 in EEB. This tradition continues this week with movies, information booth, workshops, […]
Congratulations to Zach Marion & Ben Fitzpatrick. They just found out that Zach’s NSF Dissertation Improvement Grant will be funded […]
Dr. Joe Bailey has won a Visiting Professor Fellowship at the Center for Ecological Research at Kyoto University, Japan (June-Aug. […]
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 […]
Congratulations to Brian O’Meara and Mike Gilchrist, who were recently awarded a new grant from NSF for “Population genetics-based codon […]
Aimee Classen has received more than $880,000 from the U.S. Department of Energy to investigate often-overlooked carbon cycle players. She […]
Friends and colleagues of Pat Mulholland have an opportunity to double the impact of their contributions in support of the […]
Eugene Wofford has co-authored a new book called Woody Plants of Kentucky and Tennessee: The Complete Winter Guide to Their […]
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 […]
E.O. Wilson will receive an Honorary Degree in Science and Letters in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at UT’s Spring 2014 […]
A paper describing a new species of Clematis by EEB graduate student Aaron Floden appeared in the latest volume of […]
Gaining Admission into Highly Competitive Graduate Programs Wednesday October 2nd, 4:00-5:30 University Center Auditorium All students, first year and beyond, […]
Sergey Gavrilets has a new open-access paper in PNAS, which is getting a great deal of media attention in places […]
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, […]
Jen Schweitzer was awarded over $145,000 in Technology Fee Funds from the University in May. These funds are being used […]
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 […]
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded $18.6 million to the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, for the National Institute for […]
Anna (Annie) Furches won third place in the Thomson Reuters Web of Knowledge Ideation Challenge in April. Competitors submitted innovative […]
Faculty Aimee Classen and Nate Sanders taught a Maymester class in Costa Rica focusing on suitability issues. In addition to […]
Graduate students Jeremiah Henning (Classen Lab) and Quentin Read (Sanders Lab) were just invited to participate in the Boreal Forest […]
Undergraduate student, Sarah Wood (Classen Lab), was awarded a Sigma Xi grant in aid of research (http://www.sigmaxi.org/programs/giar/) for her undergraduate […]
norUndergraduate Nora Dunkirk, was awarded a prestigious National Science Foundation REU fellowship this summer to work at the Sevilleta LTER. […]
Undergraduate Brandy Pieper (Classen Lab) was awarded a prestigious National Science Foundation REU fellowship this summer to work in Puerto […]
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 […]
Five Six current or incoming EEB students were awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowships or honorable mentions: Awards: Rachel Fovargue (Armsworth lab) […]
The UT Chancellor’s Office gives annual awards to recognize “extraordinary achievements” for faculty, staff, students, and other members of the […]
The 63rd annual Spring Wildflower Pilgrimage is April 23 – 37. It is “an annual five-day event in Great Smoky […]
EEB PhD student Jessica Welch, a grad student with Gary McCracken and Dan Simberloff, recently received grants to study how […]
Research assistant professor Barb Banbury and assistant professor Brian O’Meara recently received funding from the Encyclopedia of Life for creating […]
PhD student Jennifer Krauel (a Gary McCracken student) was recently funded by Bat Conservation International for her project, “Identifying insect […]
EEB PhD candidate Riley Bernard was featured in the Knoxville News Sentinel for her research on white nose syndrome in […]
EEB undergrad Devin Jones won first place in the EUReCA undergraduate research symposium, Ecology, Evolution, and Water Quality category, at […]
UTK EEB graduate student Amanda Janicki (McCracken lab), as well as other scientists from UTK and the US Fish and […]
A recent paper by Bill Rice, Urban Fridberg, and UTK EEB faculty member Sergey Gavrilets, proposes that epigenetic factors, the […]
HEAD – DEPARTMENT OF ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY The Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (http://eeb.bio.utk.edu) at the flagship campus of […]
UTK Distinguished Professor Sergey Gavrilets’ work on the evolution of monogamy, published in PNAS, has been featured in an article […]
A recent paper in PLOS ONE by dept. head Gary McCracken and colleagues, including former UTK EEB grad students Veronica Brown […]
UTK EEB grad student Sara Kuebbing was recently featured in a podcast by the Ecological Society of America. See more […]
UTK Distinguished Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology and Mathematics Sergey Gavrilets recently published a paper in PNAS on the evolutionary […]
Recent work by grad student Denise Kendall and assistant professor Beth Schussler was selected as an Editors’ Choice by Science. […]
UTK EEB PhD student Sara Kuebbing was recently featured in the Knoxville News Sentinel for her work as part of […]
Ecology & Evolutionary Biology (EEB) Department graduate students Emily Austin and Jessica Bryant along with Kelly Sturner, NIMBioS Education & Outreach Coordinator, were invited to […]
Sarah Wood, undergraduate in the Classen lab, teaches elementary students how to measure plant traits. The USA Science and Engineering […]
Ecology & Evolutionary Biology (EEB) Department graduate students Emily Austin and Jessica Bryant along with Kelly Sturner, NIMBioS Education & Outreach Coordinator, were invited to visit […]
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, […]
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