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- Working with CSU's Ruth Hufbauer, EBIO faculty Brett Melbourne and graduate student Topher Weiss-Lehman have published a new paper in Nature Communications. The paper has important implications for the responses of organisms to climate change and
- CU Â鶹ӰԺ's Alan Townsend has written an opinion piece featured in the New York Times. He offers his thoughts and observations on the wide-ranging value of science, from cancer treatments to climate research, in our daily and personal lives. Read
- Amy Churchill's paper at the December 2016 American Geophysical Union meeting has been selected as one of the Outstanding Student Papers, an honor granted only to the top 5% of student participants. Congratulations, Amy! Click here for
EBIO grad student Helen McCreery's research into group problem-solving strategies among longhorn crazy ants has been featured in the New York Times. Using a variety of Lego barricades (straight walls, cul-de-sacs, and traps) to block the paths of- CU Â鶹ӰԺ continues to excel: U.S. News & World Report’s 2017 rankings list places CU Â鶹ӰԺ 26th in environmental studies and ecology, out of 1000 universities in 65 countries, based on academic research performance and global and regional
Boreal toads are considered to be endangered within Colorado. New research from the McKenzie lab has shown that a probiotic treatment protects the toads against the lethal and globally spreading amphibian chytrid fungus- Congratulations to Christy McCain for her research into drivers of mountain biodiversity, featured here in The Atlantic!
- Rebecca Safran and her team of researchers have shown that Colorado male barn swallows with certain artificially colored feathers and shorter tail feathers were more successful in reproduction.
Andy Martin, professor in EBIO has been awarded as one of this year's Presidential Teaching Scholars at CU Â鶹ӰԺ! The President's Teaching Scholar Program recognizes and honors faculty whom have demonstrated exemplary efforts in teaching, creative- William Bowman and collaborators work on the effect of air pollution on plant diversity is profiled in the Denver Post.