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Colorado Matters host Nathan Heffel speaks with Erin about her new book ( Field Guide to the Lichens of White Rocks) , lichens, and Colorado. That episode aired March 17th. Erin was also featured on May 25th in the Boulder Daily Camera in recognition of the book.

CU Boulder's Disability Services will be hosting its first annual awards ceremony next month to recognize students, alumni, and faculty who have fostered outreach and supported other students and faculty in the disabled community. Disability Services will present four awards--one for a faculty member; one for a staff member; one...

A $6.8 million NSF renewal grant to CU Boulder’s Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research will give an additional six years of longevity to the study of natural and human-caused ecological change at Niwot Ridge, a site which has provided invaluable data since the 1940s. Read the full report here.

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 other environmental impacts. Congratulations to Topher and Brett! Read the paper here .

CU Boulder'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 the full article here .

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 more information about the presentation .

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 ants carrying a payload of tuna fish back to their nest,...

CU Boulder continues to excel: U.S. News & World Report’s 2017 rankings list places CU Boulder 26th in environmental studies and ecology, out of 1000 universities in 65 countries, based on academic research performance and global and regional reputation. More information on their measurements and methodology can be found here .

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 Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis ( Bd). The naturally-occurring bacterium J. lividum (nicknamed purple rain for it's distinctive purple hue)...

Congratulations to Christy McCain for her research into drivers of mountain biodiversity, featured here in The Atlantic !