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Hip hip hooray! Awards aplenty for EEB grads

On U-M Gateway: dishonesty is aggressively punished in the world of paper wasps

EEB First Paper Award recognizes publication milestone

And the EEB Outstanding Paper Award goes to . . . Chuan Li!

EEB grads bring home “I’m a Scientist USA” Gold for two years running

EEB grads chosen for selective Genetics Training Program

U-M joins new National Microbiome Initiative

On U-M Gateway: oldest well-documented Blanding's turtle recaptured at U-M reserve at age 83

On U-M Gateway: Google searches for ‘chickenpox’ reveal big impact of vaccinations

FIVE EEB grad students win NSF DDIGs

On U-M Gateway: more than 13M U-M specimens moving to state-of-the-art facility

Climate warming sometimes – but not always – benefits insect pests

In memoriam: U-M zoology alumnus Paine called a keystone among ecologists

EEB’s current faculty searches

Kurdziel wins LSA award for outstanding undergrad education

EEB postdocs gather awards

New book by Hunter hot off the press: The Phytochemical Landscape

2016 promotions for Professors Chris Dick and Aaron King

Biological Sciences Building tops out

Visualizing and predicting evolution by mapping the elusive 'fitness landscape'

EEB First Paper Awards recognize publication milestone

Apply by Sept. 15 for EEB/MCDB Fall Graduate Program Preview Weekend

Namesake snakes for U-M Museum of Zoology researchers

Otero Jimenez named HHMI Gilliam Fellow

Previously on U-M Gateway: Google searches for ‘chickenpox’ reveal big impact of vaccinations

Invasive species may unexpectedly reduce disease prevalence

Building community: EEB 32nd annual retreat

eXXpedition 2016: scientists sampled plastics in Great Lakes

Science with Passion and a Moral Compass: A Symposium in Honor of John Vandermeer

“Michigan Shrubs and Vines,” long-awaited companion to “Michigan Trees” published

Revving the microbial engine: Horsepower versus fuel efficiency in bacterial genomes

Tests of shifting tree distributions in response to climate change reveal impact of seasonal drought

EEB First Paper Award recognizes publication milestone

Thompson receives service award from American Society of Mammalogists

Journal Cell asks Wittkopp about big questions in evolution

20th annual ID Day delights community and scientists alike

Biology Letters cover story: a role of mimicry in brightly colored ground beetles?

ASLO honors Duffy with 2017 Early Career Award

Previously on U-M Gateway: Shifts in mating strategies help herbicide-resistant ‘superweeds’ persist

Review published on how humans affect evolution of emerging diseases

U-M Gateway feature: Camera-trap project captures Michigan wildlife selfies

A Night at the Museum: EEB’s holiday party

New UMMZ digital collection unearths mysterious order of amphibians

U-M volunteers fire up GIRL STEM POWER!

Warm welcome to our newest EEB faculty

Genomic tools for species discovery inflate estimates of species numbers, U-Michigan biologists contend

Moments in time captured: EEB Photographer at Large Contest 2016

Duffy named AAAS public engagement fellow

OConnor and Klimov: USDA Bee Mite ID released

EEB volunteers at Detroit’s Cooke STEM Academy Career Day

Thomaz wins notable Museum of Zoology Tinkle Award

Goldberg awarded prestigious Thurnau Professorship

Topographically complex areas hold much of Earth’s biodiversity

Cheng wins ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Honorable Mention

Duffy invited as main stage speaker for DC March for Science

Undergrads find research niche in Harris lab

LSA and the March for Science

Crocker wins UROP Outstanding Research Mentor recognition

EEB grads coach area students for Michigan Science Olympiad

Tropical lowland frogs at greater risk from climate warming than high-elevation species

Introducing EEB's new grad student administrative assistant

Early Career Scientists Symposium: “a real gem”

On U-M Gateway: Bumblebee populations higher in Detroit than in some less urbanized areas; vacant lots could be a factor

EEB First Paper Award marks publication achievement

Mid-continent Paleobotanical Conference hosted at U-M by EEB and EARTH

And the EEB Outstanding Paper Award goes to…Pascal Title!

Great turnout for EEB’s annual spring picnic

Genetic analysis of New World birds confirms untested evolutionary assumption

TOP U-M HONOR: Hunter named Distinguished University Professor

Inaugural Digital Data in Biodiversity Research Conference hosted by U-M museums

Three cheers! Jenkinson named Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor

Grad student curatorial project: U-M Herbarium begins digitizing its wood collection

EEB + FEMMES = a great partnership

EEB grads rack up Rackham awards

DIG this: three NSF DDIG awards and two Graduate Research Fellowships

Gold stars galore for grads

New speciation research in Andean cloud forest birds shines light on age-old questions

On U-M Gateway: three species of tiny frogs discovered in Peruvian Andes

BioBlitz Detroit 2017: discovering biodiversity in the city

U-M biologist teaches microbe-hunting skills honed at sea

Duffy hosting Twitter's @RealScientists week of Aug. 21

Close encounters of the scientific kind at A2 SummerFest KidZone

Animal coloration research: on the threshold of a new era

U-M partners in project to create digital encyclopedia of thousands of 3-D vertebrate specimens

On U-M Gateway: Due to climate change, one-third of animal parasites may be extinct by 2070

Hop, skip, run, leap: Unpredictability boosts survival for bipedal desert rodents

Celebration of EEB awards and promotions

Welcome new faculty Allgeier and Winger

On U-M Gateway: Soil holds potential to slow global warming, two studies show

On U-M Gateway: UMMZ bird collection plays pivotal role in study of air pollution in last century

On U-M Gateway: Duffy selected for inaugural President’s Award for Public Impact

Kondrashov authors new book: "Crumbling Genome"

Wittkopp named Sally L. Allen Collegiate Professor of EEB and MCDB

First Green Life Science Symposium at U-M bridges pure and applied sciences on plants and food systems

On U-M Gateway: 2017 experimental burn at UMBS extends research on forest recovery from fire to over a century

EEB First Paper Award celebrates publication landmark

Museum mammal specimens “sign up” for Intro Bio

Top notch: Massey named HHMI Janelia Graduate Research Fellow

Nadelhoffer visits Michigan Congressional offices

Vandermeer pens new book: Ecological Complexity and Agroecology

On U-M Gateway: ID Day ABCs: algae, bird skull, cicada

High honor: Zhang named AAAS Fellow for contributions to molecular evolution

Photo contest 2017: a venomous frog hops to first place

Introducing new faculty: López-Fernández and Valdovinos

Introducing EEB’s grad program assistant

New two-way shuttle runs between RMC and Ruthven

Researchers publish first compendium of vascular plant species of the Americas

Promoting diversity and excellence: EEB welcomes U-M Presidential Postdoc and LSA Collegiate Postdoc

On U-M DEI website: EEB is committed to diversity, equity and inclusion

On U-M Gateway: Climate change, urbanization driving opossum's northward march

FEMMES keeps STEM sparks alive in young girls

EEB First Paper Award celebrates publication milestone

U-M Gateway feature: Science and art collide brilliantly in class: Making Science Visible

How to Science: Recap of Season 1

Reforesting US topsoils store massive amounts of carbon, with potential for much more

Grad student curatorial project: U-M Herbarium discovers unique specimens in decades old ES George Reserve Herbarium collection

EEB is on the move!

Digitizing the U-M Herbarium collections: microfungi digitization project completed

U-M EEB graduate program ranked sixth nationwide

The honeymoon is over: Decades-long trends, not flawed vaccine, explain resurgent whooping cough

Not just for the birds: possibilities abound for EEB and sociology undergraduate

Three cheers for GREEBs volunteers!

ECSS 2018: Ecology and Evolution of Color: an exciting, emerging frontier in integrative biology

Dissecting the changing “fitness landscape” across environments helps decode evolution

And EEB’s Outstanding Paper of the Year Award goes to…Paul Glaum!

Woot woot! 2017 – 2018 EEB awards honor roll

EEB grads rack up Rackham awards

Insights into alien pollinators’ invasion success and impacts on natives

New video: Edwin S. George Reserve turtle research and more

EEB First Paper Award celebrates publication milestone

On U-M Gateway: rising carbon dioxide levels pose a previously unrecognized threat to monarch butterflies

A celebration of EEB faculty and research scientist awards and promotions

New scholarly focus needed to help solve global food crisis, U-M experts say

U-M Gateway feature: Puerto Rico -- networking to power a grid

HAIL! EEB grads capture best talk and best poster at IMC

EEB website awarded University Standard of Excellence from Web Marketing Association

Fitness effects of altering gene expression noise in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Cindy Carl wins LSA Outstanding Individual Staff Award before retirement

Walk of Remembrance of the Burt Lake Village burnout at EEB annual retreat

Recent retirements: Professors Emeritus Berry, Burnham and Dunlap

EEB photo for the ages

Video celebrates successful museum specimen move

Citizen science: Research Museums Center prairie restoration project begins

Expanding fungal diversity, one cell at a time

Moore wins U-M Outstanding Postdoctoral Fellow Award

Introducing EEB’s new executive secretary and grad coordinator

Early Career Scientists Symposium 2019 theme and call for nominations announced

Goldberg honored with Distinguished University Professorship

Research Museums Center holds first all-museums tour

U-M howler monkey study examines mechanisms of new species formation

On U-M Gateway: Photo finish: frog (once again) leaps to first place

EEB announces new DEI library

Alumnus publishes about 3D scans of UMMZ bat skulls

Introducing EEB’s new graduate program assistant

Poisons or medicines? Cyanobacteria toxins protect tiny lake dwellers from parasites

In memoriam: the great Dick Alexander’s legacy spread far, wide, deep

On U-M Gateway: Historical letters in U-M zoology museum archive highlight links between specimen collection, conservation

On U-M Gateway: U-M biologists capture super-creepy photos of Amazon spiders making meals of frogs, lizards, furry mammals

On U-M Gateway: Impact of urbanization on wild bees underestimated

EEB holds town hall on student mental health

Challenging bird biology dogma, Winger Lab wins AOS Katma Award

Science Fun Facts

Fun Facts Archive

New EEB reading group focuses on inclusive teaching

Deadly snakes or just pretending? The evolution of mimicry

Visualizing and predicting evolution by mapping the elusive 'fitness landscape'

Staff appreciation week celebrates outstanding work

Wynneophycus, a new genus of red algae named for Wynne

Invasive species ID’d at regional UMMZ Fish Division workshop

Three EEB projects awarded Water Center grants

Educational and entertaining! Watch "Nature Boom Time" online

Bakker and Thomaz win prestigious Rackham Predoc Fellowships

On U-M Gateway: EEB highlighted in Planet Blue Sustainability Progress Report

Metzger wins ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award

Highest honors to Wittkopp, named Arthur F. Thurnau Professor

12th U-M EEB Early Career Scientists Symposium still hitting its stride

In memoriam: Professor Emeritus David M. Gates

Diversify EEB: new effort by two EEB professors

Previously on U-M Gateway: on Darwin's birthday, tomato genetics study sheds light on plant evolution

On U-M Gateway: solving the mystery of birds singing different songs: a discovery in India leads to a museum at U-M

Students analyze their own biological samples to study microbes' effect

From NPR Science: Our 'Golden Mole' winner used to paint wasps for a living

EEB Professor George Kling on Cameroon's 'Killer Lakes'

Count on EEB volunteers at Great Lakes Bowl

On U-M Gateway: U-M researchers leading effort to explain recent howler monkey deaths in Nicaragua

In March issue of Scientific American: All 2.3 million species are mapped into a single circle of life

“Nature Boom Time” makes TV debut on NatGeo WILD March 5

On U-M Gateway: On Darwin's birthday, tomato genetics study sheds light on plant evolution

EEB/Matthaei Botanical Gardens Research Awards announced

Registration is open for Early Career Scientists Symposium: Frontiers in Community Assembly

EEB grads educate community on urban pollination

Huang awarded UMMZ Tinkle Scholarship

Kling wins ASLO Martin Award for paper with strong impact in aquatic sciences field

New Program in the Environment video features EEB cameos

On U-M Gateway: call of the wild: male geladas captivate females with moans, yawns

EEB plays key role in bringing women’s science event to campus

On U-M Gateway: A new hope: study shows tropical forest protected areas can sustain biodiversity

Goldberg appointed associate chair for research and facilities

Apply by Feb. 21: NextProf Science - Future Faculty Workshop

U-M biologists support Ann Arbor deer cull

Early Career Scientists Symposium 2016 theme and call for nominations

EEB First Paper Award recognizes publication milestone

EEB grad students volunteer at Peace Neighborhood Center

Through the lens of science

Duhaime Lab undergrad awarded prestigious ASM fellowship

James appointed as Wehmeyer Chair in the Taxonomy of Fungi

Previously on U-M Gateway: ‘tree of life’ for 2.3M species released; EEB plays key role in project

Popma awarded Rackham International Student Fellowship

From LSA Today: for many profs, Twitter is where it’s @

Nearly $1.5 million in donations to UMMZ from Cohn bequest

Science feature: how the Amazon became a crucible of life

Fast Food for Thought videos online

Nearly $1.5 million grant to transform learning at U-M and UMBS

On Michigan Radio: researchers say biodiversity is key to saving threatened coffee crops

On U-M Gateway: parasitic fungi and the battle against coffee rust disease

Investigating the toxicity of Lake Erie cyanobacterial blooms

Three cheers for GREEBs volunteers!

Digitizing the U-M museum collections: Collections in Support of Biological Research update

Museums ID Day in the news

UMMZ hosted invasive fish identification workshops

LSA Magazine features EEB

Welcome new associate chair for museum collections - Herbarium

Knowles named Robert Payne Collegiate Professor

On becoming emeritus: Webb leaves extraordinary legacy in U-M education and fish biology

Michigan Daily: in intro biology lab, students become research subjects

American Society of Mammalogists’ Grants awarded

Chelsea-area farmer donates mammoth remains to U-M

Hinshaw honored by Wilson Ornithological Society

On U-M Gateway: four biological kingdoms influence disease transmission in monarch butterflies

EEB hosts American Malacological Society Annual Meeting at UMBS

From Michigan News: old-school literature search helps ecologist identify puzzling parasite

Dunlap's NIH-JSPS fellowship for research in Okinawa

On U-M Gateway: MAMMOTH DISCOVERY

Detroit Free Press OpEd: Nadelhoffer and priest on pope and climate change

Michigan Today feature: the butterfly effect

On U-M Gateway: ‘tree of life’ for 2.3M species released; EEB plays key role in project

U-M Gateway feature story and videos COFFEE KILLER: tracking ‘la roya’ – the fungus threatening coffee’s future

Don't miss out: EEBlog’s Coffee in Mexico series

Digitizing the U-M Herbarium collections: Great Lakes invasive species update

On U-M Gateway: watching Wasmannia: ants on a Mexican coffee farm

Dick quoted in two climate change articles: Wired and The Christian Science Monitor

Previously on the U-M Gateway: how to wipe out polio and prevent its re-emergence

From Michigan News: bitter pill: monarchs, milkweed and self-medication in a changing world

Digitizing the U-M Herbarium collections: macroalgal update

Li awarded best poster at SMBE conference

On U-M Gateway: researching lizards in Mexican coffee fields

U-M Gateway feature: harvesting invasive cattails to restore marsh biodiversity

EEB promotions 2015 – 2016

On U-M Gateway: summer in Mexico, catching rats on a coffee farm

Digitizing the U-M Herbarium collections: macrofungi update

On U-M Gateway: investigating the toxicity of Lake Erie cyanobacterial blooms (with video)

Digitizing the U-M Herbarium collections: tri-trophic update

Previously on the U-M Gateway: faulty modeling studies led to overstated predictions of Ebola outbreak

O’Brien named Honorary Lifetime Member of Michigan Entomological Society

The Wall Street Journal: Badgley says organic agriculture can feed the world

LSA teaching awards trifecta for EEB

Six EEBers are Detroit Zoo Fellows in Science Communication

EEB grads coach Potions and Disease Detectives at Science Olympiad

A warm welcome to new EEB office staff

From Michigan News: how to wipe out polio and prevent its re-emergence

From Michigan News: old-school literature search helps ecologist identify puzzling parasite

Previously on U-M Gateway: predatory snails evolved diverse venoms to subdue a wide range of prey species

Blum named Distinguished University Professor

Life with Dead Birds blog is “for all your bird-nerdy questions”

First standalone meeting of Society of Systematic Biologists held at University of Michigan

A plethora of student awards to celebrate

New book by Vandermeer and Perfecto published: Coffee Agroecology

Duffy’s popular blog lands her in nature.com

From Michigan News: How to explain tropical biodiversity? Cross ‘faster evolution’ off the list

Getting to know you: unique scientific illustration class explores UMMZ collections

Quanta Magazine article: Scientists map 5,000 new ocean viruses

Shi wins “I’m a Scientist USA” competition

And the EEB outstanding paper award goes to . . . Brian Metzger!

Consistency is the key to success in bread baking and biology

EEB partners with Detroit youth for BioBlitz biodiversity survey

You Are Welcome Here initiative in EEB

EEB features in LSA Spring Magazine

LSA Today exposes nature’s beauty with EEB photo contest

Three cheers for three EEB grads awarded NSF Grad Research Fellowships

A beautiful day for the EEB annual spring picnic

A hopping success: Save the Frogs Days

Artistic photo shoot of Museums Annex prior to demolition

Crocker wins Rackham’s Lipschutz Award and more

Grad students teach middle schoolers about infectious disease and scientific inquiry

EEB First Paper Awards recognize student milestone

Wood wins UROP Outstanding Research Mentor Award

Sweet, bitter, savory: penguins lack three of the five basic tastes

Myers Endowed Award for Field Research established

Vote on student genomics videos this week

Blockbuster year for the EEB Early Career Scientists Symposium

Gould scores Rackham Predoc Fellowship and publishes paper in journal, Coral Reefs

Journal of Ecology publishes Eminent Ecologist Virtual Issue in Honour of Goldberg

On U-M Gateway: U-M researchers track the toxicity of Lake Erie cyanobacterial blooms

Burnham authors first book “Ecology of Lianas”

Five(!) EEB grad students awarded NSF DDIGs

EEB appreciates staff with playful week

U-M Earth Day celebration features Nadelhoffer

On U-M Gateway: faulty modeling studies led to overstated predictions of Ebola outbreak

EEB First Paper Awards honor student excellence

Gould shines in the Rackham Student Spotlight

Predators, parasites, pests and the paradox of biological control

In University Record: $2.5M award to help train young scientists in microbial systems

On U-M Gateway: predatory snails evolved diverse venoms to subdue a wide range of prey species

EEB helps organize Teach-In + 50: End the War Against the Planet

Duhaime takes Great Lakes microbead research to the airwaves as Michigan Senate considers ban

On U-M Gateway: consistency is the key to success in bread baking and biology

Women in Science and Engineering convened at Software Carpentry Workshop

UMMZ staff honored with well-deserved LSA Outstanding Team Award

Michigan News featured story: Fighting invasive species in Michigan's lakes

Myers quoted in Detroit Free Press: Michigan’s mysterious, misunderstood coywolves

Research by Assistant Professor Vincent Denef Helps Fight Invasive Species in the Great Lakes

Behind the Scenes Day: engrossed in the wonder of science

The ants that conquered the world – twice

On U-M Gateway: sweet, bitter, savory: penguins lack three of the five basic tastes

Ms. Andrews goes to Washington

A warm EEB welcome to new staff

EEB First Paper Award recognizes publication milestone

Kling to present Collegiate Professorship Inaugural Lecture

Burnham’s lianas research featured in Brazilian research magazine

Early Career Scientists Symposium speakers announced; registration open

Bed nets and vaccines: some combinations may worsen malaria

Know your enemy: combating whooping cough requires informed vaccine booster schedules

Predators, parasites, pests and the paradox of biological control

EEB Study: Some Combinations of Bed Nets and Vaccines May Worsen Malaria

Not quite snakes on a plane but mites on planes!

Brazilian Society of Ichthyologists Bulletin features Nelson

USDA awards half a million to Baucom for herbicide resistance study

Mighty ants conquered the world – twice

Duffy’s “Dynamic Ecology” blog among most influential

From LSA Today: Creative Inspiration: 8 LSA Inventions

Previously on U-M Gateway: contamination likely explains ‘food genes in blood’ claim

Pesky Dust Mites Travel the World on Our Luggage, Clothes, and Food, Says LSA Research

EEB First Paper Award celebrates student accomplishment

From LSA Magazine: Animal House

U-M ecologist wins prestigious award for young scientists

From LSA Magazine: The Dead Elephant in the Room

Kurdziel named Beverly Rathcke Collegiate Lecturer

Goldberg named AAAS Fellow for contributions to advancing community ecology

Shout-out to GREEBs volunteers

EEB outreach with FEMMES Saturday Science Capstones

Bio-sciences building design blends research, teaching, museums

Great Lakes invaders go digital on Michigan Radio’s “The Environment Report”

EEB alumna named to Popular Science “Brilliant 10”

Two EEB grad students on editorial board of Michigan Journal of Sustainability

U-M EEB grad student selected for pilot program to increase Native Americans in STEM

ECSS 2015 theme and call for nominations

MIDAS touch brings in $2.8 million in NIH grants

New study uses DNA sequences to look back in time at key events in plant evolution

On U-M Gateway: contamination likely explains 'food genes in blood' claim

Shi wins N. American Society for Bat Research’s Koopman Prize

Rohani invited to White House panel on predicting the next pandemic

EEB welcomes new Michigan Fellow

On U-M Gateway: Rabosky awarded 2014 Packard Fellowship

U-M forest preserve joins Smithsonian global network

A community favorite: ID Day

Rohani named Pearl L. Kendrick Collegiate Professor

Wittkopp honored for scholarship and service

Open Tree of Life/hackathon attracts international participants

On U-M Gateway: U-M biology student and nature filmmaker wins $50K National Geographic Channel exploration contest

ESGR ponds hold clues to how amphibians will respond to climate change

In memoriam: Professor Emeritus Shappirio

Shi shares passion for science writing with local students

Martinez-Bakker invited to give international seminars

Bakker’s disease ecology research gets press at ESA meeting

Evolution and venomous snakes: diet distinguishes look-alikes on two continents

Get out the vote: UM EEB undergrad NatGeo grant finalist

Two of six NSF awards to digitize biodiversity collections include U-M museums

Photos and videos: 30th annual EEB fall retreat: “a great way to start the semester”

Kudos: 2014 EEB promotions

New EEB associate chairs announced

New chair Ó Foighil takes helm of EEB

On the U-M Gateway: Sunlight controls the fate of carbon released from thawing Arctic permafrost

Viruses hijack deep-sea bacteria at hydrothermal vents

Fink, leading authority on the biology and systematics of fishes, retires

Unique Pacific mollusc collection donated to UMMZ

Pascual presented ESA’s Robert T. MacArthur Award

Thought-provoking posts on EEBlog

Award duo at ichthyologists and herpetologists meeting

EEB runs high school biology teacher workshop

International forestry workshop returns to UMBS

LSA feature: A bird in the hand

Unvaccinated infants act as “kindling” to fuel epidemics

A SIGEO forest plot in Michigan

Incoming student, Myers, awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

Hot on Twitter: Knowles Evolution 2014 talk

Frontiers Master’s 2014 cohort dives in at U-M Biological Station

Zhang is president-elect of SMBE

Cardinale ranks among most highly cited ecologists

Kling quoted in LA Times opinion piece, “A reality check from the Arctic for global warming deniers”

Undergrad Engelman shoots UMMZ videos for Insect Week

Moth study suggests hidden climate change impacts

Huffmeyer wins Smithsonian Minority Award and takes part in G10K

Three 2014 ESA Fellows hail from U-M EEB

On U-M Gateway: evolution and venomous snakes: diet distinguishes look-alikes on two continents

U-M Gateway featured photo: the science of beauty

Rackham Predoc and Merit Fellowships announced

EEB/Matthaei Botanical Gardens Research Award

Wittkopp awarded over $1.15 million NIH grant

UMMZ’s endowments from early 1900s support today’s students: 2014 awards announced

EEB Spring-a-Ling celebration

Title’s awards trifecta

Collecting biological specimens essential to science and conservation

LSA Researcher Cody Thompson Says Collecting Biological Specimens Is Essential To Science And Conservation

UMMZ herpetological collection goes global

What’s trending in weeds

$550K NSF grant for James to unveil early evolution in fungal kingdom

Cheng wins Brower Fellowship

Celebrating EEB staff with admini golf and more

On U-M Gateway: viruses hijack deep-sea bacteria at hydrothermal vents

Rabosky wins IBS MacArthur & Wilson Award

New insights on ecological dynamics driven by genetically modified crops

Li wins Edwin H. Edwards Scholarship

Myers, a leading scholar in mammalian systematics and biodiversity, retires

On U-M Gateway: moth study suggests hidden climate change impacts | Tune in to Michigan Radio Stateside today

Eight EEB science covers honored by Shapiro Science Library

New videos: Arctic permafrost frozen for thousands of years is melting

10th annual Early Career Scientists Symposium: opening doors for future collaborations

Ancient sharks reared young in prehistoric river-delta nursery

Introducing EEB’s YouTube channel

Student creates video on Sustainable Food Systems initiatives at U-M

Gould hits a grants triple: DDIG, Lipshutz and PADI

Grad students volunteer to engage young girls in science

On the U-M Gateway: unvaccinated infants act as “kindling” to fuel epidemics

Dick is E.S. George Reserve’s new director; forest inventory plot to join Smithsonian Global Earth Observatory

Introducing new staff: lab/classroom services and HR

Edwards' stint in the Peace Corps: the power of knowledge and consciousness

Global warming led to dwarfism in mammals – twice

New book published on red algae by Wynne

One-of-a-kind learning at Behind the Scenes Day 2014

A unique look at birds

On NPR: Fisher gives his perspective on the disappearance of the woolly mammoth

Mutual benefits: Stressed-out trees boost sugary rewards to ant defenders

Professor Earl Werner, “a giant of ecology,” retires

A night at the museum 2013

ECSS 2014 speakers announced and registration open

On U-M Gateway: Pringle’s public radio Academic Minute

Long-held assumption about emergence of new species questioned

AP story quotes EEB experts: deep freeze has silver linings for natural world

From Michigan News: biology students program bacterial cells to make computer-like decisions

From Michigan News: ancient sharks reared young in prehistoric river-delta nursery

New book “The Princeton Guide to Evolution” features chapters by EEB faculty

Cardinale named AAAS Fellow

Irrigation in arid regions can increase malaria risk for a decade

Travel the globe with EEB photo contest winners

U-M Herbarium receives over $1.3 million from Voss Trust

NSF award for studying Andean-Amazon plant groups

On the U-M Gateway: culling vampire bats to stem rabies in Latin America can backfire

In memoriam: Emeritus Professor of Botany William Anderson

Jenkinson named Dow Sustainability Fellow and wins best oral presentation at MSA meeting

Zhang awarded $1.16 million grant from NIH

Cheng is Audience Choice winner at Three-Minute Thesis®

EEB’s Honorary Photographer at Large contest is back!

Shout out to students for their service!

Two EEB researchers among new U-M Water Center grant awardees for freshwater research

Early Career Scientists Symposium 2014 call for nominations is posted

Otero Jimenez selected for Genetics Training Grant Program

Mercury levels in Pacific fish likely to rise in coming decades

Ibáñez receives NSF early-career award for forest study

National Geographic features Hunter’s research on self-medication in nature

New collection manager in UMMZ mammal division

On U-M Gateway: global warming led to dwarfism in mammals – twice

Wittkopp awarded Work/Life Champion Award for Supervisors

Cohn Endowment created to benefit UMMZ Bird Division

ID Day: a special day to share treasures

Dobkowski’s Arctic research featured by LSA

Mimicking venomous snakes: untangling the history of deceptive coloration

Burnham’s research part of biodiversity presentation to Ecuador’s Congress

New student advisors in biology, neuroscience

Nadelhoffer coauthors report on ecological fracking impacts in Michigan

EEB Professor Uncovers Why Some Fish Contain More Mercury Than Others

Welcome 2013 cohort!

On the U-M Gateway: long-held assumption about emergence of new species questioned

Passing on the chair baton from Goldberg to Vandermeer

Welcome international students

UMMZ news from the World Congress of Malacology

Cardinale letter opposing anti-biodiversity SB 78 signed by 133 Michigan scientists

On the U-M Gateway: irrigation in arid regions can increase malaria risk for a decade

New faculty welcome to Baucom

Herbarium awarded NSF grant to digitize macroalgae collection

Thomaz scores best poster award

Lifetime achievement award for Smith

Shaping the future of undergrad biology education

Michigan Today features EEB alum: A bug's life

Danger zone: volunteering in the path of tornadoes

Dengue research in NY Times

Influenza infection increases likelihood of bacterial pneumonia 100-fold

UROP Outstanding Poster Award to Hajian-Forooshani

Cardinale named to international research initiative, Future Earth

On the U-M Gateway: Mimicking venomous snakes: untangling the history of deceptive coloration

Soils in newly forested areas store substantial carbon that could help offset climate change

Leading explanations for whooping cough's resurgence don't stand up to scrutiny

Welcome ED-QUE2ST students!

ADW and NSF Innovation Corps program join forces

Duffy named ESA Early Career Fellow

Elgersma awarded U-M Water Center research grant

Living fossils? Actually, sturgeon are evolutionary speedsters

Genetic study of house dust mites demonstrates reversible evolution

The votes are in: He wins EEB's outstanding paper 2012-13

Cheng wins Michigan Space Grant Consortium award

Bick awarded Center for the Education of Women grant

Rackham International Research Awards go to Valencia-Mestre and Yitbarek

Wilson wins Epidemiology Faculty of the Year

Great turnout for EEB's Spring-a-Ling 2013

Welcome new HR and purchasing staff

Coveted NSF Graduate Research Fellowships announced

Stressed-out tadpoles grow larger tails to escape predators

Shining the spotlight on Megahan

Admini golf returns for staff appreciation week

UMMZ announces student awards

Rabosky awarded $600K NSF grant

Li awarded UMMZ Tinkle Scholarship

$420K NSF grant for Hunter

Herbarium completes imaging and digitization of type collections

On U-M Gateway: Vandermeer chosen for U-M diversity service award

On U-M Gateway: FRACKTOPIA video with Nadelhoffer

In memoriam: alumna Dr. Nancy Walls: a lifetime of adventure and generosity

On U-M Gateway: geladas' vocal lip smacks resemble human speech

Sunlight stimulates release of climate-warming gas from melting Arctic permafrost

LSA Biologist Thore Bergman Says Gelada Monkeys Produce Sounds Similar To Human Speech

On U-M Gateway: self-medication in animals much more widespread than believed

He wins Edwin H. Edwards Scholarship

Crumsey awarded Brower Fellowship

LSA Ecologist Luke Nave Says Planting Trees On Barren Land Can Increase Soil Carbon

Five more years for UMBS Director Nadelhoffer

Sheehan's dissertation wins honorable mention

Welcome to Schmidt, first joint EEB-Medical School appointment

Myers' NSF grant seeks to improve undergrad biology education

Tumblr. blog makes science visible

Cryptic clams: ÓFoighil and Li find species hiding in plain view

Early Career Scientists Symposium 2013 in review: identifying field's cutting edge

LSA Biologist Barry O'Connor Says Study Of Dust Mites Shows That Evolution Is Reversible

WCBN-FM broadcast on U-M peregrine falcons by EEB alumna

Vandermeer publishes "Inequality and Innovativeness" in social science journal

Wittkopp writes GENETICS primer

The Detroit News Op Ed: Biodiversity bill jeopardizes Michigan's natural resources

On U-M Gateway: genetic study of house dust mites demonstrates reversible evolution

The Michigan Botanist dedicates current journal to Voss

Early warning system of malaria epidemics in northwest India developed

Stressed-out tadpoles grow larger tails to escape predators

Wei awarded prestigious Barbour Scholarship

Science outreach opportunity with Huron High School

Li awarded Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship

From humble beginnings: refreshed Animal Diversity Web reaches millions worldwide

Hunter honored with Rackham Master's Mentoring Award

On U-M Gateway: lessons from cockroaches could inform robotics

The Scientist opinion: biodiversity impacts humanity

U-M celebrates three Sloan Fellowships for research

Blum wins 2013 Patterson Award for research on mercury

Duveau awarded international fellowship

On U-M Gateway: Sunlight stimulates release of climate-warming gas from melting Arctic permafrost

Climate warming unlikely to cause near-term extinction of ancient Amazon trees

On Michigan Radio: Cardinale discusses SB 78; Hearing Feb. 14, Lansing

On U-M Gateway: climate warming unlikely to wipe out ancient Amazon trees

Megahan's paintings selected for Artists for Conservation show

EEB in first round of MCubed with two projects

Research turns to rap video

Spotlight shines on Barvinok

Ho awarded Rackham Chia-Lun Lo Fellowship

Miller and Shi awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowships

View and vote on photo contest entries

King crowned with AAAS Fellowship

LSA Magazine feature: Tiny Wars We Barely Understand

Early Career Scientists Symposium 2013 topic and date announced

On U-M Gateway: fracking in Michigan: U-M researchers study potential impacts

In memoriam: Dr. Ted Cohn

In memoriam: Dr. Sally Allen

Getting to know our new administrative staff

Inaugural MNA Award recognizes excellence in conservation science

Grant to help attract diverse students in math, science, engineering

National Geographic grant for endangered Pacific Island land snails

LSA Shares A $2 Million National Science Foundation Grant To Increase The Number of Degrees Awarded In Science, Technology, Engineering And Math

On U-M Gateway: Gross anatomy, Museum of Zoology video

Submit stunning snaps: EEB photo contest 2012

On the U-M Gateway: U-M launches $9 million effort to strengthen Great Lakes restoration

Fall Recruitment Partnership builds bridges to help diversify sciences

NSF grant for Dick's Amazon biota research is part of a $4 million US-Brazil initiative

Injaian spotlight on Rackham home page

Program in Biology office moves to USB

Werner named ESA Fellow

Ed Grant, a.k.a. Ed Kraus, retires

Wittkopp chosen to help create UT Academy of Distinguished Teachers

New resource: EEB grad and postdoc opportunities and announcements

On the U-M Gateway: Scientists uncover vast differences in Earth's polar ocean microbial communities

Miller awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

University Record spotlights O'Brien, insect collection manager and photographer

George Reserve collections donated to UMMZ provide portal through time

EEB-T design contest

U.S. Department of Interior grant for James' amphibian research

New UMMZ publication, "Fishes of the Greater Mekong Ecosystem," announced

New Frontiers students get feet wet at U-M BioStation

Kling's NSF grant renews for studying microbial diversity and ecosystem function

M-Bio wraps up second successful summer

Welcome exceptional new faculty -- fall 2012

Rackham International Connect Ambassador Crocker

Thursday Seminars

EEB Lunch Seminars

Discussion Groups

Archived Events

U-M Water Center Freshwater Research Symposium

Thesis defense: Inferring histories of adaptive divergence with gene flow: genetic, demographic and geographic effects

Tuesday Lunch Seminar: Fitness consequences of regulatory mutations across environments

EEB holiday party

No Thursday Seminar today

Tuesday Lunch Seminar: Fish out of water: comparative transcriptomics and stress response of fish in a drying river

No Thursday Seminar today

Tuesday Lunch Seminar: The role of environmental variation in gene expression evolution: copper reaction norms in the budding yeast

Biological Sciences Building Town Hall meeting

Biological Sciences Building Town Hall meeting

Thursday Seminar: Genome dynamics and the evolution of germline/soma distinctions across the (eukaryotic) tree of life

Tuesday Lunch Seminar: Genomic perspectives on species discovery - the problem of fractal diversity

Varsity Drive collections tour (not a public event)

Museum Studies Brown Bag Series: "Charlie Engelman's Museum Adventure, from iPhone Cinematographer to National Geographic Explorer"

Thursday Seminar: Do microbial community assembly processes matter for ecosystem function?

826michigan: Busting Bat Myths: A SPOOKY REPRISE of a HALLOWEEN Night in the Life of a Bat!

Tuesday Lunch Seminar: Stability from morphology : the surprising efficacy of legs

EEB cider mill visit

Tuesday Lunch Seminar: Mites in food: an emerging problem

Thursday Seminar: The origin of red flowers: genetic mechanisms and macroevolutionary patterns

Tuesday Lunch Seminar: How to have sex when mom and dad are 25 percent different?

Thursday Seminar: The eye of the finch: evolution of an emerging avian pathogen at multiple temporal and spatial scales

Recent Black & White Work. Photography by Mark O'Brien

No Tuesday Lunch Seminar today

Thursday Seminar: In search of eco - evolutionary dynamics in the plankton

2014 MCubed Symposium: Innovation Cubed: Successes, Insights & New Directions

Tuesday Lunch Seminar: Speed Talks

Michigan Conservation Speaker Series: Conservation of Tropical Wildlands Through Biodiversity Development

Thursday Seminar: Eco-evo-endocrinology: an integrative framework for understanding how animals adapt to changing environments

Tuesday Lunch Seminar: Snailing in the South Seas - the Partula story

Rachel Carson and Her Sisters: Extraordinary Women Who Have Shaped America's Environment

Great Lakes Bat Festival

Thursday Seminar: Infectious diseases and food webs: links between Daphnia, parasites, and the larger food web

Tuesday Lunch Seminar: Quantitative links between microbial life histories, physiology, and genome features

Thursday Seminar: Sexual selection and plant speciation

Special Seminar: The evolution of drug resistant pathogens: principles and practice

Thursday Seminar: Zombie ants: the precise manipulation of animal behavior by a microbe

Tuesday Lunch Seminar: Models, genomes, trees, and the future of phylogenomics

Biological/Biomedical Sciences (and Friends) Golf Outing

30th annual EEB Fall Retreat Weekend

EEB orientation breakfast and introductions

R Workshop 2014

Celebratory lunch for newest EEB professors emeriti

Thesis defense: Investigating the population genetics of an ongoing range expansion in the Virginia opossum (Didelphis virginiana)

Michigan Alumni Spirit Group of Little Traverse Bay Lunch and Learn

Michigan Ecology Mixer at 2014 Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting

Thesis defense: Evolutionary diversification of the marine bivalve clade Galeommatoidea

U-M Alumni Spirit Group of Little Traverse Bay Lunch and Learn

Thesis defense: Spatial and temporal niche partitioning of four sympatric ant species

Thesis defense: Effects of garden attributes on ant species richness and potential for pest control

Program in Biology Undergraduate Research Poster Session

Tuesday Lunch Seminar/student evaluation seminar: Bacterial diversity across a trophic gradient in Michigan stratified lakes

Thesis defense: Terrestrial-aquatic transfers of carbon dioxide, methane, and organic carbon from riparian wetlands to an Arctic headwater stream

Thursday Seminar: Beyond the 'Age of Fishes':assembling the other half of vertebrate biodiversity

Science Café: Wolves, People, and Policy

Warren Herb Wagner Guest Lecture in Plant Evolution: Evolution of the niche: phylogenetic and experimental perspectives

Student evaluation seminar: Can oceanic island endemic tree snails survive the Anthropocene?

Thursday Seminar: A long term perspective on recent discoveries in marine microbiology

Communication skills workshop for graduate students: summer 2014

Information session on applying to graduate programs in the life sciences

Communication skills workshop for graduate students: summer 2014

Save the Frogs Day, Herpetology Club

Thursday Seminar: Genetic, morphological and behavioral perspectives on hybridization in Mexican howler monkeys

Diversity and Social Justice Symposium

Shapiro Science Library's 7th Annual Science Covers Celebration

Tuesday Lunch Seminar/student evaluation seminar: Internal and anthropogenic drivers of plant, pest, and pollinator metacommunity dynamics

Thursday Seminar: Trait and niche evolution and the assembly of plant communities

Tuesday Lunch Seminar/student evaluation seminar: The evolution of ecological diversity across extant bats

U-M Biological Station Winter Research Meeting

Thursday Seminar: Acclimation and adaptation in the face of climate change: news from the reef

Tuesday Lunch Seminar/student evaluation seminar: The spatial context of Australian squamate diversification

SNRE 2014 Conservation Ecology Seminar Series

EEB Ph.D. recruitment weekend

Thursday Seminar: Scorpion neurotoxins and their ion channel targets: exploring the molecular genetic and physiological bases of adaptive traits that mediate species interactions

Tuesday Lunch Seminar: Student speed talks

Ruthven Museums Behind the Scenes Day

Thursday Seminar: The long past in front of us: Miocene ecosystems of Pakistan

Tuesday Lunch Seminar: Student speed talks

Thursday Seminar: Latitudinal diversity gradients: the role of speciation, extinction and biogeographic interchange

CANCELED: Tuesday Lunch Seminar: The Amborella genome and the evolution of flowering plants

Thesis defense: Examination of the evolution and function of mite pockets in lizards

Classical Revolution Chamber Music Monday: I'll Be Bach

Special seminar: Predicting novel trophic interactions

From lake to sea: Free U-M Life Sciences Orchestra Winter Concert

EES William T. Smith Lecture Series: Invasive species, mass extinction, and speciation: how biogeography impacts the history of life

Thursday Seminar: Community ecology in a changing environment: Context-dependent interactions between plants and mycorrhizal fungi

No Tuesday Lunch Seminar

Tuesday Lunch Seminars resume Jan. 14, 2014

Deadline for Early Career Scientists Symposium nominations

Thursday Seminars resume Jan. 16, 2014

Tuesday Lunch Seminar: Disentangling the effects of mutation and selection on the evolution of gene expression

Thesis defense: Disentangling the mechanisms and uncovering the scale of the neotropical liana takeover

EEB holiday party

Thursday Seminar: Fighting frog fungus?

Tuesday Lunch Seminar: Biodiversity and disease dynamics: the effects of host diversity on aquatic parasites

Thesis defense: Title TBD

Thesis defense: Genetic structure and diversity in Mexican black howler monkeys (Alouatta pigra)

Unseen Partners: Manipulating Microbial Communities that Support Life on Earth

EEB annual spring picnic

NextProf Science: Future Faculty Workshop at the University of Michigan

Thesis defense: Shedding light on photosynthesis: the impacts of atmospheric conditions and plant canopy structure on ecosystem carbon uptake

Science with Passion and a Moral Compass: 2016 John Vandermeer Festschrift

Thesis defense: Chronic plant litter loading alters forest soil organic matter stability

Save the Frogs Day!

Thursday Seminar: Population genomics of plant evolutionary transitions

Tuesday Lunch Seminar/student evaluation: Top down effects of ungulate browsers on forest nutrient cycling

Thursday Seminar: Polyploidy and the origins of novelty: impact of duplication on genomes and network evolution

Tuesday Lunch Seminar/student evaluation: Do microbes contribute to invasiveness? The interactive effects of plant-associated microbes on native and non-native plants

The Michigan Entomological Society: Breaking Diapause

Tuesday Lunch Seminar/student evaluation: Genetic mechanisms underlying species correlated differences in appearance and behavior

Frontiers master's students recruitment days

Non-academic career path talk

Special Seminar: Ocean viruses: model systems and 'big data' to explore global impacts of the biosphere's nanoscale modulators

Early Career Scientists Symposium 2016: Frontiers in Community Assembly

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Presents: Early Career Scientists Symposium 2016: Frontiers in Community Assembly

Thursday Seminar: The consequences of rarity for community stability

Non-academic career path talk

No Tuesday Lunch Seminar: have a good mid-winter break

Thursday Seminar: Sequencing 10,000s of human genomes: early results, opportunities and challenges

Tuesday Lunch Seminar/student evaluation: Natural history and evolution of snake feeding ecology

SNRE presents: Terrestrial vertebrate conservation in tropical forest protected areas

UMBS Winter Research Meeting

Thursday Seminar: Evolution of the Amazon of the ocean: increasing diversity through the study of marine diversity

U-M Museum of Natural History Science Café: Evolution and Deep Time

EEB Ph.D. recruitment weekend

Tuesday Lunch Seminar/student evaluation: Squamate microbes in space and time

Thursday Seminar: Conservation science in the tropics: why most ecological research is useless, and why we need more of it

Tuesday Lunch Seminar/student evaluation: Molecular evolutionary patterns and Caryophyllales adaptations: examples in carnivory and cold tolerance

Thursday Seminar: Why do plants grow where and when they grow? Using remote sensing to interpret vegetation patterns in semi-arid and savanna-type ecosystems

Tuesday Lunch Seminar/student evaluation: Viruses of fungi: in search of mutualisms and other benefits of persistent infection

EEB Diversity Town Hall Meeting

Thursday Seminar: Natural born and experimentally evolved killer fungi

U-M Water Center's Water @ Michigan

Tuesday Lunch Seminar/student evaluation: The disturbed world of microbes: decomposers in a northern temperate forest

Thursday Seminar: Yeast genome diversity and how to tap it

No Tuesday Lunch Seminar today: see you next week!

Tuesday Lunch Seminars resume Jan. 19, 2016

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