Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

Resources for Succeeding in EEB:

  1. EEB has a listserv where students can find out the latest opportunities and events. To subscribe to the EEB-UNDERGRAD listservs just email eeb@utk.edu and request to be added to the listserv.
  2. Check out the foci in EEB to help you choose courses that match your interests and career goals: see new EEB Concentration in Biology link.
  3. EEB has a Grads Mentoring Undergrads Program, which allows you to meet with graduate students who share your interests in order to learn more about EEB careers and research opportunities.  Click here to apply (Google Form), or email eebmentoring@gmail.com for more information.
  4. Important professional development courses include EEB 205 (Methods in EEB). You can learn valuable skills and have many career questions answered by taking EEB 311 Career and Professional Development. You can learn more about research and careers by taking EEB 490 (meet with the weekly seminar speakers) and get hands-on experience in research or an internship in EEB 400, 492, 493 (all require advance communication with the instructor).
  5. Get involved in a lab to gain research experience. Email individual faculty directly who do research you are interested in and check out opportunities from the office of undergraduate research (including funding opportunities!): https://studentsuccess.utk.edu/urf/getting-started/find-opportunities/
  6.  EEB Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium. All EEB majors or undergraduates working in EEB labs are invited to present a poster illustrating independent research, an intensive class project, or their work as an assistant. Email eebmentoring@gmail.com for more information
  7. Have you thought about graduate school? Check out this information (PDF) to help you get a better idea of what to be thinking about and what questions to ask.
  8. Each semester there are information workshops (Graduate School Demystified, How to Write a CV, How to Get in a Lab, et al). Look for flyers and announcements for dates and times of these workshops.

Additional EEB resources can be found here!