Tomato Production At Risk Due to Decrease in Buzz Pollinators Tomatoes are the heart of many backyard gardens. Tomato crops […]
Katherine Whitaker graduated magna cum laude in May 2021 as a biology major, concentrating in ecology and evolutionary biology. Katie […]
Alumni Spotlight: Vernon C. (Tom) Gilbert Members of the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology recognize and are proud of […]
Message from EEB Head and Associate Heads In 2020, EEB underwent a ten-year Academic Program Review to evaluate the entire […]
Laura Russo, assistant professor of ecology, conducts research revolving around win-win scenarios, from the level of mutualistic interactions between microbial […]
The legacy of Biology in a Box lives on after Susan Reichert’s retirement with new Director Elizabeth Derryberry and former […]
We are grateful for our donors whose gifts help us provide support for undergraduate and graduate students in the department. […]
Jessica Budke, an assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and director of UT’s Herbarium, published a paper titled “Evolution […]
What kind of careers am I qualified for with a concentration in EEB? Do I need to go to graduate […]
Graduate Researchers in Ecology, Behavior, and Evolution (GREBE) is the graduate student association in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary […]
How did they do it?! Many people are asking how we managed the changes in teaching, research, and administration required […]
Students in the Ben Fitzpatrick Lab are encouraged to pose big questions about the origin and maintenance of biodiversity. Over […]
Alix Pfennigwerth, a vegetation ecologist and UT EEB alumna (’11, ’17), has spent the past several years working in land […]
Jacob Moutouama was born and raised in the Atacora Mountain chain, a biodiversity hotspot of Benin in West Africa. Several […]
Morgan Fleming is a senior working in the Sheldon Lab. She has always loved the sciences and the outdoors, and […]
The University of Tennessee is nestled in an important global biodiversity hotspot. The Great Smoky Mountains National Park (GSMNP) is […]
Jonathan Dickey, a graduate student in the Fordyce lab, investigates the mediation of pollinator network assembly by rhizospheric soil microbiota […]
In spring 2018, Daniel Malagon won the EEB Undergraduate Research Poster Contest as a junior. He has been conducting out-of-class […]
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 […]
What’s the difference? How is it that a pest or pathogen can kill its host in one place but not […]
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? […]
The Fall 2017 issue of Explorations, the EEB Newsletter, is now available! You can view the newsletter as a printable […]
In late November of 2016, a single spark started a fire on a mountain in the Great Smoky Mountains National […]
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, […]
EEB’s GREBE (Graduate Researchers in Ecology, Behavior, and Evolution) was featured in the Knoxville News-Herald newspaper for their recent outreach […]
The most recent version of the EEB Newsletter has appeared. You can download a PDF, submit items to the editor, […]
The first issue of the new EEB newsletter has now appeared. You can download the PDF or email eebnews@utk.edu for […]
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