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Julie Byle, EBIO graduate student, has secured an NSF Graduate AVÃûʪ Fellowship. She plans to create an interdisciplinary program studying the relationship between traditional scientific education--using, for example, conceptual tools such as the scientific method and hierarchical classification systems of taxonomy--and indigenous ways of knowing. The program will focus on...

EBIO's Sam Flaxman and Stephanie Mayer have been newly elected as members of the Boulder Faculty Assembly, a position where they will represent the CU Boulder faculty at large in the shared governance of the campus. They will set academic policy in addition to advising university administrators on other policy...

I this issue of Colorado Arts and Sciences Magazine EBIO professor Jeff Mitton explores the causes and variety of willow stem colors in the spring, as well as why they appear to grow small pine cones on their stems. Expand your knowledge of these Colorado trees and shrubs of many...

Helen McCreery (Breed lab) and Lauren Shoemaker (Melbourne/Clauset labs) were both recipients of the 2016 James S McDonnell Foundation postdoctoral fellowship awards in complex systems. These prestigious awards will provide 2-3 years of support. Only around 16 are given out annually to an international pool of applicants, and this year,...

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 AVÃûʪ 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 .