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Students from Insect Biology (EBIO 4660/5660, taught by Deane Bowers and Tim Szewczyk) lab dyeing silk (produced by caterpillars of the silk moth, Bombyxmori) with a dye made from cochineal insects (a small white scale insect that feeds on

November 25, 2015 • Natural SciencesNorth American bison adjust their diet seasonally in order to take full advantage of the growing season when grasses become less nutritious, researchers at the 91PORN have discovered.

Congratulations to Lauren Shoemaker and Topher Weiss-Lehman, who are recipients of the 2016 Dean's Grants!  It is very rare when one department has multiple recipients, but EBIO has done this three years in a row, showing what a

Flowers from the Petunieae: a colorful system for research and education. Clockwise from top right: Petunia, Calibrachoa, Nierembergia, BrunfelsiaStacey Smith, assistant professor in the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology department has just been

Congratulations to Noah Fierer for his recent involvement in an article published in The New Yorker, regarding his work investigating the microorganisms that live in our household dust. You can read the full article here, as well as the

Whales have a remarkable social structure much like that in humans and other primates. They form hierarchical societies. In the journal Nature Communications, EBIO graduate student Lauren Shoemaker and colleagues show for the first time that this

EBIO graduate student, Geoff Legault from the Melbourne lab was selected as the winner of the Volterra award for best student poster in theoretical ecology for his presentation at this year's Ecological Society of America meeting. His poster was

EBIO graduate student Tobin Hammer and Professor Deane Bowers were recently featured on the cover of Oecologia. How are herbivorous insects able to subsist on a diet that is often rich in toxic chemical compounds? In this issue Hammer and Bowers

In a new study published today in the journal Science, EBIO Professor Pieter Johnson and colleagues demonstrate how community ecology, which focuses on how species interact across different scales of biological organization, can provide

Climate Change & FilmInnovative class uses film making(by Clare Spitzer, EBIO undergraduate). This class brings students of all majors together to learn about film while obtaining a solid science background on climate change through an