- Departmental Support Boosts NSF Awards For Graduate StudentsDepartmental Support Boosts NSF Awards For Graduate Students by Randall Brown An increasing number of Vols in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (EEB) earned awards through the National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP). It marks a… Read more: Departmental Support Boosts NSF Awards For Graduate Students
- Love and Bailey published in Knowable MagazineIn Water Canyon, New Mexico, there is a small, 18-mile-long, high-elevation area called the Magdalena Mountains, surrounded by desert. The isolated peaks host a scrubby collection of plants, including a tiny cluster of about 20 cottonwood trees. They are trapped, as… Read more: Love and Bailey published in Knowable Magazine
- Sheldon’s and Mamantov’s research featured in National Parks MagazineThe award-winning National Parks magazine shares stories about our beloved and diverse National Park System.
- Faculty Recognized for Excellence in Teaching, Service, and Academic OutreachFaculty Recognized for Excellence in Teaching, Service, and Academic Outreach During the 2023 UT College of Arts and Sciences faculty convocation, EEB faculty received awards for excellence in teaching, research, and academic outreach. Benjamin Keck, Lecturer – Excellence in Teaching Awards:… Read more: Faculty Recognized for Excellence in Teaching, Service, and Academic Outreach
- Armsworth Discusses Climate Adaptation with US Interior Secretary HaalandUnited States Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland and US Geological Survey Director Dave Applegate joined students, scientists, and community partners affiliated with the Southeast Climate Adaptation Science Center at NC State University in February for detailed conversations about climate adaptation. … Read more: Armsworth Discusses Climate Adaptation with US Interior Secretary Haaland
- Kimberly Sheldon’s Research Featured on CBSKimberly Sheldon’s research on climate change effects on dung beetles was featured on CBS Saturday Morning, as part of a segment on insect declines in the Anthropocene.
- Graduate Student Wieteke Holthuijzen Published in ‘The Conversation’Murderous mice attack and kill nesting albatrosses on Midway Atoll − scientists struggle to stop this gruesome new behavior Their ‘island naïveté’ means these seabirds are easy pickings when mice attack. USFWS – Pacific Region/Flickr, CC BY-NC Wieteke Holthuijzen, University of Tennessee… Read more: Graduate Student Wieteke Holthuijzen Published in ‘The Conversation’
- Jessica Budke helps identify rare aquatic plants for TVAhttps://www.tva.com/newsroom/articles/the-race-at-cutoff-reach
- More than 180 UT Faculty Members Among World’s Top 2% of Cited Scientists
- Richard Norby Among Six UT Faculty Members Included Among Highly Cited Researchershttps://news.utk.edu/2023/12/14/six-ut-faculty-members-included-among-highly-cited-researchers/
- Wieteke A. Holthuijzen, a doctoral student in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, is the first author on a new research study in PLOS on the diets of house mice and their conservation threat on islands.
- From Plants to Prints: University of Tennessee Printmaking Artists Drawing from Herbarium Specimens
- New study shows more species can be saved if policy-makers and private donors allow even a little more flexibility in where conservation funds can be spent
- Important new work about invasive species by former EEB grad student, Martin Nunez
- Fruit flies may enjoy taking carousels for a spin
- UT Hosts Summer Camp for Local Middle Schoolers
- Simberloff Honored by British Ecological SocietyEach year, the British Ecological Society (BES) recognizes 11 distinguished ecologists whose work has benefited the scientific community and society in general. Daniel Simberloff, the Gore Hunger Professor of Environmental Science in the UT Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, received… Read more: Simberloff Honored by British Ecological Society
- Blum Named Associate Dean for Research and Creative Activity
- UNDERstory Game is Award Finalist
- EEB Senior Receives Gilman Scholarship to Study Abroad
- American Academy of Microbiology Colloquium: Microbes in Models Final Report
- Dr. Benjamin Keck et. al. Published in Science
- EEB Spring 2023 Awards Video
- Tiny Fish Makes Big Splash
- EEB Graduate Receives Fulbright Award
- EEB Department Alumnus Weighs in on Shy SpidersDr. Angela Chuang, formerly of the Riechert lab, was consulted for this NY Times article on Joro Spiders, and whether current research is in fact proving how shy the species can be.
- EEB Graduate Student Maryrose Weatherton nominated for Cheek Graduate Student Medal of Excellence Award
- Studying Mysteries of the Microbiome – interview with Dr. Stephanie Kivlin
- Dr. Lou Gross named Fellow of the Ecological Society of America
- EEB Graduate Students Selected for US Fish & Wildlife Service Directorate Fellows Program
- EEB Graduate Student Django Grootmyers discusses “zombie” fungi on WVLT
- Rapid Plant Evolution May Make Coastal Wetlands More Susceptible to Sea Level Rise
- EEB Faculty Awarded
- Graduate Student Wieteke Holthuijzen awarded at 50th Annual Meeting of the Pacific Seabird Group
- Investigating New Digital Authorities – Dr. Sergey Gavrilets receives largest Templeton Foundation award in UT history
- Investigating New Digital Authorities
- “Rapid Plant Trait Evolution Can Alter Coastal Wetland Resilience to Sea Level Rise” – paper co-authored by EEB’s Dr. Mike Blum published in Science magazinehttps://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abq0595
- Faculty Spotlight: Dr. Elisabeth Schussler
- Printmaking Students Create Herbarium Specimens Portfolio
- Dr. Ben Fitzpatrick and his graduate student, Rebecca Smith are recipients of the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation: Bring Back the Native Fish award
- Ecology Professor Receives NSF Grant to Research Global Change Affecting Ecosystems
- EEB Adjunct Research Professor Dr. Richard Norby Among Most Highly Cited Researchers for 2022
- In Their Own Words: Daniel Simberloff
- Dung beetle mothers protect their offspring from a warming world by digging deeperA road sign in Bursa, Turkey, warns drivers of the presence of dung beetles, stating ‘Attention! It may come out, don’t crush it please!’ Ugur Ulu/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images Kimberly S. Sheldon, University of Tennessee If the TV series “Dirty… Read more: Dung beetle mothers protect their offspring from a warming world by digging deeper
- Sheldon Publishes Research on Dung Beetles and Climate Change
- Russo Co-Authors Planting for Pollinators
- New Research Suggests Heat Waves Could Lead to Avian Population Decline
- For the Love of Plants
- Darwin Day Highlights Evolution Education
- Gross Investigates Relationship Between Climate Change Beliefs and Risk
- Doctoral Student Lauren Lyon Publishes Chapters on Red Panda Conservation in East TennesseeMillions of years ago, Red Pandas used to roam the hills of East Tennessee. Now, Zoo Knoxville leads one of the most successful captive breeding programs of Red Pandas in the world. Lauren Lyon, a PhD candidate from the University of… Read more: Doctoral Student Lauren Lyon Publishes Chapters on Red Panda Conservation in East Tennessee
- Local University Joins Global 4-day Effort to Digitize Centuries of Data About Life on Earth
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- A Man of the Biosphere
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- Sharing a Love of Insects and Plants
- The Legacy Continues