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

Anna Killeen Cameron is an undergraduate researcher who has worked in the Simberloff and Leppanen lab for the past year […]

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

Pursuing his DDS at Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tennessee, John Patrick (J.P.) Carney (’13) begins his fourth and final […]

Understanding the distributions and functions of microscopic fungi and bacteria is what drives new Assistant Professor Stephanie Kivlin’s research. “Microbes […]

The UT Etnier Ichthyology Collection (UTEIC) was established in 1965 when Professor David A. Etnier started collecting fish specimens from […]

Over the past two years, the UT Herbarium has proudly supported student botanical research through awards from the L. R. […]

Want to take a field course immersed in the natural beauty and ecological complexity of one the world’s biodiversity hotspots? […]

Graduate Student Spotlights One of the most important metrics when measuring the success of a department is external funding. Usually, […]

A songbird belting out its song – whether from the top of a tree in a forest or on a […]

By her senior year Hannah Anderson, an EEB major, had already been involved in several projects. She started in the […]

A simple, but intriguing question led Orou Gaoue to embrace a career in academia: how do we know if a […]

One of the greatest honors a faculty member can receive is for peers to recognize their contributions to the field. […]

After spending nearly six years at Oklahoma State University, Assistant Professor Monica Papeş has traded the Cross-Timbers and Great Plains […]

Buried in their Work! EEB volunteers get dirty digging roots to help with invasive species research. EEB Departmental Awards 2017 […]

This fall, students and faculty in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology will be able to conduct plant research […]

Rats. Fish. Mud. Though not readily apparent, water is the thread that ties all three together. “Too much water. Not […]

Alannie-Grace Grant is modeling the climatic differences between closely related self-fertilizing and cross-fertilizing angiosperm plants. Her results show that self-fertilizing […]

Increasing demand for food, energy, and raw materials is driving rapid environmental change with profound impacts on biodiversity around the […]

Sam Borstein is studying how dietary specialization may affect evolutionary patterns using ray-finned fishes as a study system. Ray-finned fishes […]

When Thomas Brooks (’98) graduated from the University of Cambridge with a degree in geography, he wanted to focus his […]

Chandler Brown, an undergraduate working in the Williams Lab, entered his first plants-focused class already intrigued by the evolution of […]

From publishing books to winning national awards, our faculty have made their mark on the field of ecology and evolutionary […]

Congratulations to students, faculty, and staff in EEB who have won grants, awards, and recognitions since our last newsletter. We […]

The halls of Hesler look more like an art museum than the plant biology section of a science building thanks […]

In 1972, UT was one of two universities offering a PhD in ecology. Curt Richardson (PhD ’72) was the second […]

Earlier this year, Jeff Martin began as the new greenhouse and garden facility manager for EEB. A native of South […]

Every day, biologists face the challenge of interpreting the patterns and processes of highly complex systems such as genomes, trait […]

“Plants are my passion,” says Assistant Professor Jessica Budke, whose research focus is on the development and evolution of mosses. […]

A desire to understand the patterns and processes that determine the distribution of species and to use this information to […]

Fascinated with the idea that huge and complicated tasks can be accomplished by groups that could not individually observe or […]

For the past year, Patrick Mckenzie, a senior in the EEB program, worked in the Armsworth Lab on his undergraduate […]

As an undergraduate, Joe Williams became fascinated by the often bizarre ways plants have sex. “Who would have thought that […]

Jim Drake, who recently retired from EEB, spent his entire professional career at UT after receiving his bachelor’s degree at […]

The cotyledons of a tulip tree (Liriodendron tulipifera) emerging from east Tennessee soil in 1970 would have by now produced […]

It has been an exciting year in EEB. Our department has grown on many fronts. First, we have recruited lots […]

Jacob Wessels, an undergraduate in EEB working in the Fitzpatrick Lab, is focused on the population ecology of the nonnative […]

A diverse group of graduate and undergraduate students are committed to enhancing the status and representation of women in science, […]