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Miranda Redmond, currently a Ph.D. candidate working under faculty advisor Nichole Barger , has just been awarded a NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (GRFP). GRFP recipients receive three years of support from the National Science Foundation including an annual stipend of $30,000 and a cost-of-education allowance to the university of study...

In a paper published on November 9, 2011, in PLOS ONE , EBIO co-authors Clinton Francis, Catherine Ortega, and Alexander Cruz showed that in areas of high noise pollution it is actually the larger birds who are driven away. The researchers suggest this is because the lower pitch of their...

Welcome to Dr. Anne-Marie Hoskinson and Dr. Sarah Wise who join us as science teaching fellows. Anne-Marie and Sarah will be collaborating with small working groups of faculty to build on our teaching innovations, including enhanced learning goals and more active learning environments. They are funded by a Science Education...

Pikas are sensitive to changes in temperature and snowpack, which have driven them to higher elevations and even local extinction in some areas of the western US. But doctoral candidate Liesl Erb, with Rob Guralnick , Chris Ray , and EBIO undergraduate research assistants Gavin Dean, Justine Smith, and Lizzy...

Tim Seastedt got the good news of a new, large NSF grant. "Ecosystem transformations along the Colorado Front Range: Prairie dog interactions with multiple components of global environmental change", $851,704.00 (3 years), Tim Seastedt PI, Jesse Nippert (KSU) and Laurel Hartley (CU-Denver) Co-PIs. In a nutshell: This study will measure...

Barbara Demmig-Adams has been elected to membership in Leopoldina , the National Academy of Sciences for Germany/Austria/Switzerland. This is the highest academic honor awarded by an institution in Germany and more than 157 Nobel Laureates are fellows of Leopoldina. Past fellows include Darwin, Goethe and Ernest Rutherford. Many congrats to...

David Stock has just received a 3 yr, $500,000 NSF grant for his project entitled "Causes and Consequences of Dentition Reduction in the Zebrafish Lineage." Abstract: The direction of evolution is determined not only by the environments to which organisms are exposed, but also by features of their genetic and...

Chris Ray has received a $5500 grant from the Office of University Outreach to support a citizen-science program focused on the American pika. The Front Range Pika Project is a collaborative effort led by Chris and her EBIO graduate students (Liesl Erb and Jennifer Wilkening), and supported by the Denver...

Read more about the grant at the daily camera: http://www.dailycamera.com/cu-news/ci_18285749?IADID=Search-www.dailycamera.com-www.dailycamera.com

Tim Seastedt's research on biological control of spotted knapweed, dubbed the “wicked weed of the West,” a “national menace,” and a “weed of mass destruction” is featured here in the current edition of College of Arts and Sciences Magazine.