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Congratulations to Mike Breed for being named a Fellow of the Animal Behavior Society! Each year the Executive Committee of ABS elects a small number of fellows who have made distinguished contributions to the field. Fellows are limited in number, never exceeding 10% of the ABS membership. Mike's selection is...

Congratulations to EBIO graduate student Miranda Redmond for receiving the Campus Sustainability Award for Student Leadership. The annual campus sustainability awards program started in 1997 as a means to recognize commitment to reducing the burden that the CU campus places on the environment. Outstanding efforts make CU's successful and challenging...

Congratulations to Rebecca Safran for receiving the Innovative Seed Grant Program award (IGP)! The size of the award is $49950. See the project summary below. CU innovative seed grant – project summary The overarching goal of the proposed research is to understand the interface between social behavior and parasite/pathogen transmission...

As an undergrad studying ecology and evolutionary biology, Lizzie Lombardi found herself as one of the few “plant” people on a team of University of Colorado Boulder engineering students who were tasked with a lofty mission: build a robotic system that could garden in space. The aerospace engineering team was...

While working for an agriculture biotech company in the San Francisco Bay area, Tom Lemieux had a couple of benches where he would keep his “weird” plants. But his job entailed growing corn, tomatoes and petunias for research, so there wasn’t much room for the plants he enjoyed. He was...

The structure of some higher education institutions sometimes does not allow students to pursue dual passions. Such was the case with Aaron Hirsh, who loved biology and writing. Despite the “rules,” he found a way to combine his interests of writing and contributing to the project of working toward a...

CU-Boulder researchers lead breakthrough study on microbes in butterflies Red postman butterfly ( Courtesy photo / University of Colorado ) The internal bacterial makeup of a butterfly species through its three major life stages has been genetically sequenced for the first time by a team led by a University of...

For the first time ever, a team led by Toby Hammer at University of Colorado Boulder has sequenced the internal bacterial makeup of the three major life stages of a butterfly species, a project that showed some surprising events occur during metamorphosis. Congratulations on the publication of this exciting work!...

If you were a shrew snuffling around a North American forest, you would be 27 times less likely to respond to climate change than if you were a moose grazing nearby. That is just one of the findings of a new University of Colorado Boulder assessment led by Assistant Professor...

Congratulations to Sam Flaxman for being awarded an Award of Excellence as an Outstanding Teacher for Technology in Teaching. In December 2013, students were asked to nominate an instructor who uses technology in outstanding ways to support student learning. Sam's students particularly appreciated his “use of iClicker questions and video...