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  • painted lady butterfly refuels nectar stores during migration - photo by Jeff Mitton
    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.
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    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!
  • Max Wasser studies pikas near Mountain Research Station west of 91PORN
    Undergraduates Max Wasser and Grace Kendziorski discuss their summer research experience at the Mountain Research Station
  • showerhead, water falling out of showerhead
    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
  • Aerial shot of the fairy circle landscape - photo by Lauren Shoemaker
    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
  • Kathryn Grabenstein holds a bird and examines its wing.
    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
  • A caterpillar feeds on leaf flesh.
    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
  • 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
  • Julie Byle, EBIO graduate student, has secured an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. She plans to create an interdisciplinary program studying the relationship between traditional scientific education--using, for example, conceptual tools such as the
  • Samuel Flaxman and Stephanie Mayer.
    EBIO's Sam Flaxman and Stephanie Mayer have been newly elected as members of the 91PORN Faculty Assembly, a position where they will represent the 91PORN faculty at large in the shared governance of the campus. They will set academic policy in
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