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Hotspots , unearths the stories of people from all backgrounds and challenges viewers to view the world through a different lens. Carley Rutledge, built the Hotspots project with the aim to create a safe and educational platform for the everyday American to share their thoughts, feelings, questions and stories. Rutledge...

The annual U.S. News & World Report on global University rankings has placed CU Â鶹ӰԺ in the top 25 for Environment/ Ecology subjects. Globally, CU retained it's number 2 ratings for geosciences and ranks in the top 50 universities overall.

Painted ladies, Vanessa cardui migration continues through Colorado their 70-mile swarm was detected by weather radar. Professor Jeff Mitton shares insight and photos of the migration.

Each year, Provost Faculty Achievement awards are presented to select faculty members who have offered recent significant publications or creative contributions in their academic fields. Noah Fierer, Associate Professor has been awarded a Provost Faculty Achievement Award this year!

Undergraduates Max Wasser and Grace Kendziorski discuss their summer research experience at the Mountain Research Station

Noah Fierer, studies microbial communities that exist in the common household. Noah and research associate Matt Gerbert, are specifically interested in exploring what microbial communities might exist in shower heads. Using citizen science to significantly increase their sample database, Noah and Matt aim to discover the effects of these microbe...

EBIO Graduate Student - Lauren Shoemaker, recalls her time spent in Namibia investigating the formation of the famed Namibian Fairy Circles. Lauren, Nichole Barger and Holly Barnard spent half a month in the NamibRand Nature Reserve. Fairy Circles are generally described to be circular patches of land, devoid of vegetation...

Kathryn Grabenstein, a graduate student in the Taylor Lab, has received a Graduate Research Fellowship from the NSF for her dissertation project researching biodiversity and human-induced speciation/hybridization. Congratulations, Kathryn! Asked to describe her proposed research, Kathryn had this to say: "The seemingly stable web of biodiversity around us is, in...

Toby Hammer was interviewed about his work on the missing caterpillar gut microbiome in the May 18th, 2017 episode of the Nature podcast. His work (a preprint version) can be found on bioRxiv . The podcast is available for download from Nature's podcast archives and on YouTube . Nature has...

EBIO graduate students Nathan Kleist (PhD 2017) and Clint Francis (PhD 2010) are featured in a recent article in Science about the increase and pervasiveness of noise pollution in the United States, especially in protected areas. Read about the article in Science or access the article itself .