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Missed the Grad School Worshop? Catch it Here.
November 11, 2020Undergrads, if you missed the Grad School workshop earlier in the fall, you can catch it here and hear great advice from current EEB grad students. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yhGZXDMQa8
Do I need to go to grad school and how do I apply?
September 16, 2019Please join an EEB Undergraduate Brownbag Workshop aimed at answering your most pressing questions about graduate school! A panel of EEB faculty & current UT Grads will answer questions like: – Why grad school? – How to set yourself up for grad school – How to search for programs & advisers – How to apply – What we wish we ...
POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT
August 14, 2019ISLAND CONSERVATION STUDY- GUAM KINGFISHER AND THE BROWN TREE SNAKE 1-2 Student Research Assistants will be hired ($15/hour) to work with a multidisciplinary team evaluating the likelihood of Guam kingfisher Todiramphus cinnamominus reintroduction success on the western Pacific island of Guam. STUDY DESCRIPTIONSince 1988, the critically endangered Guam kingfisher has survived solely in captivity. Now only ca. ...
Undergrad Research Opportunities 04/02/2019
April 2, 20194th Annual Undergraduate Research Poster Symposium We’re excited to announce the 4th Annual EEB Undergraduate Research Poster Symposium. Any undergrad who has done research related to ecology or evolution is invited to apply. To apply, please use the following form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfcx7El6oqqkR-l7_LdM-nNm8s5A2B1fcgAfsQ06tpVLdRqmw/viewform?usp=sf_link This year’s symposium will be on Friday, April 26th from 11am-2pm in Hesler 427. Once your ...
Undergrad Research Opportunities 03/18/2019
March 18, 2019Paid Smithsonian Internship, Washington DC Researchers with the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute are seeking a skilled intern to help with a pilot project on fish communication in Washington DC this summer. A small stipend will be provided. See full description of the project below. Project Name: Eavesdropping on Amazonian Fish Introduction: At the Smithsonian Institution, 2019 has been declared the ...
Undergrad Research Opportunities 03/11/2019
March 14, 20194th Annual EEB Undergraduate Research Poster Symposium We’re excited to announce the 4th Annual EEB Undergraduate Research Poster Symposium. Any undergraduate who has done research related to ecology or evolution is invited to apply. To apply, please use the following form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfcx7El6oqqkR-l7_LdM-nNm8s5A2B1fcgAfsQ06tpVLdRqmw/viewform?usp=sf_link This year’s symposium will be on Friday, April 26th from 11am-2pm in Hesler 427. ...
Undergrad Research Opportunities 03/04/2019
March 14, 2019The Exhibition of Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement (EURēCA) is an annual event that showcases research and creative activities by currently enrolled undergraduate students in collaboration with a University of Tennessee, Knoxville or UTIA faculty mentor. Entries can be individual or group projects and are judged by a panel of UT faculty members and industry ...
Undergrad Research Opportunities 02/18/2019
March 14, 2019Research Internships in Plant Ecology, Archbold Biological Station, Florida Beginning April, May, or June 2019; running about 8 months. Applications due March 8, 2019. Ideal for Students with Undergraduate Degrees Contemplating Graduate School Includes independent research project. Provides Stipend, Room and Board. Internships available at Archbold Biological Station in south-central Florida in the Plant Ecology Program, led by Dr. Eric ...
Undergrad Research Opportunities 02/11/2019
March 14, 2019Summer REU Program in Global Change Ecology The Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC) in Edgewater, Maryland offers undergraduate students a unique opportunity to gain hand-on experience in the fields of environmental research and education. The program enables students to work on specific projects while getting experience in valuable lab techniques all under the direction of the ...
Undergrad Research Opportunities 02/4/2019
March 14, 2019Summer Undergraduate Research Internships Applications are due February 12, 2019. Multiple internships of up to $1,900 each will be awarded to support students who will work on a research or creative project with a UT faculty mentor in the summer of 2019. https://ugresearch.utk.edu/summer-research-internships/ Scholarship opportunities to students pursuing careers in STEM Technology plays a key role in many ...
2018 EEB Awards
May 15, 2018The Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department had their annual awards ceremony on Friday, May 11, 2018. Congratulations to: o 2018 EEB Outstanding Master’s Thesis: Chad Stachowiak o 2018 EEB Jim Tanner Outstanding Dissertation: Sara Lipshutz o 2018 EEB Best Progress Toward Dissertation: Chloe Lash o 2018 EEB Sandy Echternacht Outstanding Teaching by a Graduate Student: Melqui Gamba-Rios o 2018 EEB Outstanding ...
EUReCA award for Cahill
April 28, 2018There were some amazing entries from EEB for the April 16-20 EUReCA (Exhibition of Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement) event! Congratulations to Samantha Cahill (Giam Lab) for winning an Arts & Sciences Award in EUReCA with her research Spatial Analysis of Mountaintop Mining’s Impact on Water Quality and Macroinvertebrates. Honorable mention went to Alexis Case’s (Hughes Lab) ...
NSF Award and Recognition for EEB
April 13, 2018EEB undergraduate Justin Baldwin and EEB graduate student Maggie Mamantov (Sheldon Lab) both received honorable mentions in the prestigious National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program. This program selects early career students with high potential in science. Amanda Wilson Carter (postdoc, Sheldon Lab) was awarded an NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology! Using dung beetles, she ...
Undergrad Research Opportunities 04/10/2018
April 13, 2018Plant Community Ecology REU in Alpine Tundra – Review of applicants will begin April 15th The Spasojevic Ecology Lab at the University of California Riverside is recruiting one undergraduate to participate in a Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) this summer at the Niwot Ridge Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) site near Boulder Colorado. The successful applicant ...
Undergrad Research Opportunities 03/22/2018, updated 3/28
March 28, 2018Undergraduate field research: amphibians and microbes in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, CA. OVERVIEW An NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) fellowship is open for an undergraduate student to participate in a project studying Sierra Nevada amphibians affected by a chytrid fungal pathogen, and the role of the skin microbiome in disease resistance. The aim of this ...
Undergrad Research Opportunities 03/16/2018
March 16, 2018Hiring – undergrad summer researchers at the KBS LTER The Kellogg Biological Station Long-term Ecological Research (http://bit.ly/kbslter) program investigates the ecology of agricultural landscapes. We have two summer Research Experiences for Undergraduate (REU) positions open. These positions are based at Michigan State University’s main campus in East Lansing, MI. Impact of production system on soybean microbiome with ...
Course Offerings Spring 2018 (updated 1/9/18)
December 4, 2017In addition to the regular course offerings this spring, the following new courses may be of interest! Course Number Credits Schedule Course Title Instructor(s) Poster FWF 590, s.1; CRN 29418 3 11:10am-12:25pm Tu Th Rare Species Biology, Conservation and Management Charles Kwit poster EEB 461, CRN:31987 9:40-10:55am Tu Th Behavioral Ecology poster EEB 461, CRN:31595 3 8:00-11:00am M Mixed Severity Wildfires Karen Hughes poster EEB 461, CRN:26971 EEB 504, CRN:26273 3 12:40-1:55pm Tu Th Invasion Biology Dan Simberloff Christy Leppanen poster 1 poster 2 EEB 461 EEB 602 3 Landscape Ecology, an online course poster EEB ...
Herbarium Awards and Fellowships Available, 2017
October 18, 2017The EEB Collections Committee is pleased to announce the following three awards from the Hesler Fund to support and enhance herbarium-based research at UTK. Please share these award announcements with any students, colleagues, and collaborators who might be interested in applying. Student Research Awards – http://tenn.bio.utk.edu/HeslerInternalFacultyAwards.pdf Awards are available for research in the areas of systematics, ecology, biogeography, conservation, and ...
Undergrad Herbarium Research Opportunity at UT
May 17, 20171) Student Assistant – Herbarium Curation Technician, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology The TENN herbarium is seeking highly organized, detail-oriented individuals, to join our team as an Herbarium Curation Technician. Students will assist members of our staff with plant specimen curation. The TENN herbarium houses over 600,000 plant and fungal specimens, which is one of the largest ...
EEB Departmental Awards 2017
May 10, 2017Congratulations to all the graduate students, undergraduate students, and staff who received awards at the EEB Awards Ceremony on May 1. To view more photos, please visit the EEB Facebook page. For more information about any of the awards below, please visit the Departmental Awards and Scholarships page. 2017 EEB Outstanding Master’s Thesis Alix Pfennigwerth (Schweitzer ...