News
- Pikas are sensitive to changes in temperature and snowpack, which have driven them to higher elevations and even local extinction in some areas of the western US. But doctoral candidate Liesl Erb, with Rob Guralnick, Chris Ray, and EBIO
- Tim Seastedt got the good news of a new, large NSF grant. "Ecosystem transformations along the Colorado Front Range: Prairie dog interactions with multiple components of global environmental change", $851,704.00 (3 years), Tim Seastedt PI, Jesse
- Barbara Demmig-Adams has been elected to membership in Leopoldina, the National Academy of Sciences for Germany/Austria/Switzerland. This is the highest academic honor awarded by an institution in Germany and more than 157 Nobel Laureates are
- David Stock has just received a 3 yr, $500,000 NSF grant for his project entitled "Causes and Consequences of Dentition Reduction in the Zebrafish Lineage."Abstract: The direction of evolution is determined not only by the environments to which
- Chris Ray has received a $5500 grant from the Office of University Outreach to support a citizen-science program focused on the American pika. The Front Range Pika Project is a collaborative effort led by Chris and her EBIO graduate students (Liesl
- Read more about the grant at the daily camera: http://www.dailycamera.com/cu-news/ci_18285749?IADID=Search-www.dailycamera.com-www.dailycamera.com
- Tim Seastedt's research on biological control of spotted knapweed, dubbed the “wicked weed of the West,” a “national menace,” and a “weed of mass destruction” is featured here in the current edition of College of Arts and Sciences Magazine.
- Good news about one of our EBIO undergraduate students - Cacia Steensen. Cacia was the recipient of the Knowles Science Teaching Fellowship valued at nearly $150,000 over five years. Cacia will also be graduating with highest honors (Summa cum Laude
- Rob Guralnick has news from NASA and NSF.Rob is Co-Investigator on "Integrating global species distributions, remote sensing information and climate station data to assess recent biodiversity response to climate change" Awarded from the NASA Climate
- Joey Knelman, who is finishing his MA with Diana Nemergut and has been admitted to our PhD program, has been awarded a Fulbright-Hays grant to spend a year in Tromsø, Norway conducting research in rhizosphere ecology - the ecology of interactions