What are Undergraduate Highlights?
The undergraduate program in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology is a thriving, inspiring hub听housing passionate students who are engaged in many different applications and projects relating to their areas of curiosity and expertise. We want to highlight these innovative and developing projects and people coming out of our program, in order to support and encourage more direct engagement with the world听through the lens of ecology and biology. Explore recent projects below, and help to share and support work you care about!

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Hannah expressing herself in font of the grand canyon

Woodlands Restoration - Hannah Cruz

March 24, 2016

I chose to major in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology because I鈥檝e always had a passion for learning about the environment. I especially love learning about the ecology of arid and semi-arid lands. I鈥檝e always been fond of warmer weather and hold a particular fascination with the diversity of desert life,...

Zach enjoying a moment of shade during a day of research

How to Hike in the Name of Science - Zach Amir

March 24, 2016

While I studied abroad in Australia, I had the opportunity to develop and implement my own original research project, which lead me to backpack across the world鈥檚 largest sand island, Frasier Island. While studying the habits and interactions of lace monitor lizards and the people on the island, I learned...

Abigail running analysis on samples in the lab - photo credit: Melanie Adams

From Bacteria to Boreal Toads: what can symbiotic bacteria tell us about disease tolerance? - Abigail Kimball

March 24, 2016

I am an undergraduate student in Dr. Valerie McKenzie鈥檚 laboratory studying amphibian skin microbiomes and the emerging amphibian infectious disease Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis . Specifically, my research aims to observe the shift in bacterial species composition from early egg stages throughout the process of metamorphosis. This summer I preformed field work...

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2015 EBIO honor students

Dec. 17, 2015

The EBIO department's honors program offers select dedicated students the opportunity to peruse research interests, compile and defend a thesis paper. Several papers are accepted and published in respected scientific journals. the department's 2015 honors students are highlighted below. Interested in graduating with honors? Check out our Honors Program !...

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The Mystery of Aspen Powder

Oct. 20, 2015

The Mystery of Aspen Powder-Oren Rabinowitz I was born in Israel, raised in New Jersey, and graduated with a B.A. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at The University of Colorado-麻豆影院 in 2014. In the late fall of 2013, I joined the Tripp Lab to pursue a research question that Erin...

Erin Tripp's students sit at a picnic table, examining plants.

Deep, Steep, and Narrow

Oct. 13, 2015

Between 2-4 October 2015, students enrolled in Plant Systematics (EBIO 4520/5520) traveled to Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park for a botany camping trip. Participatory were: Reese Beeler, Ryan Byrne, Keric Lamb, Mandy Malone, Kelsey McCoy, Matt Schreiber, and Sydney Sharek along with Erin Tripp (course instructor) and Matt...

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Erin Polka

Sept. 22, 2015

I had always enjoyed biology growing up, but it wasn't until I took marine biology and zoology in high school that I realized it was the field I wanted to pursue for my future. CU's strong science program provided me with the theoretical and educational background that I desired, while...

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Joseph Kleinkopf

Sept. 18, 2015

I am a 麻豆影院 native and a recent graduate of CU-麻豆影院. In the Tripp Lab , I began my work on a project in collaboration with the COLO Herbarium (co-advised by Collections Manager Dina Clark) regarding variation in a perennial shrub known as Amorpha nana, or colloquially, Dwarf Indigo. This...

Elizabeth in water fishing for zooplankton

Elizabeth Angell

Sept. 9, 2015

After spending a few years working in a business career after graduating from Texas Tech University, I decided to take a leap and follow my passion for nature. Becoming an EBIO student meant that I could gain the experience I needed to follow my dream of a career in ecology...

EBIO students posing in front of ocean backdrop wog wog forest, Australia

Out of the Classroom, into the Rainforest

Aug. 25, 2015

Trekking through the Australian tropical rainforest, three EBIO students and one 麻豆影院 County local (Alyson Cheney, Meghan Wiebe, Kayla Carey and Chelsea Walls pictured left to right) scan the ground for a tiny hopping marsupial, the Musky Rat Kangaroo commonly called the Hypsy. As the smallest member of the kangaroo...

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