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The Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Graduate Student Organization (EEB GSO) is seeking your generous support to help our student biologists pursue opportunities for professional development and engage our local Kansas communities in scientific programming.
The Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Graduate Student Organization (EEB GSO) is seeking your generous support to help our student biologists pursue opportunities for professional development and engage our local Kansas communities in scientific programming. The Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Kansas is one of the most renowned in the nation, and the success of its students is one of the primary reasons.
Photo of fires burning in Amazon rainforest
A new study in Nature by an international team of researchers, including from the University of Kansas, shows the hotter, drier Amazon is a net source of global carbon emissions.
Dr. Deborah Smith, 2026 Chancellors Club Career Teaching Award recipient and students.
A professor in the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Smith said in her own education, experiential and outdoor learning in her field tended to resonate the most. She is the recipient of a Chancellors Club Career Teaching Award.

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