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EEB FACULTY
EEB faculty are a group of highly interdisciplinary researchers whose expertise cover the broad range of important research in ecology, evolution and behavior, and beyond. Faculty are quantitative and focus on big data and models, and their work is organismal based, including working on human-nature interactions. Faculty members’ research informs and enriches their teaching.
EEB in the News
- Fern Scientist Uncovers How Limits Fuel Evolution
Combining curiosity about ferns with the high-tech imaging available at UT, Professor Jacob S. Suissa is adding new insight into evolution. - Rats! Science Redefines Social Media Sensation
The rodent that caused a sidewalk impression known as the “Chicago Rat Hole” likely was a squirrel, according to a UT animal researcher and his colleagues. - Burghardt Paper Earns Biosemiotics Award
Professor Emeritus Gordon Burghardt received the 2024 Biosemiotics Achievement Award for his contribution to a special issue of Biosemiotics, titled “Jakob von Uexküll, heterophenomenology, and behavior systems I: Core ethology and Merleau-Ponty.”
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