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Sharon Billings named University Distinguished Professor
Sharon Billings, dean’s professor and senior scientist, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology and Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research has received the designation of University Distinguished Professor. Billings is known nationally and internationally for working across disciplines to understand how whole systems – terrestrial ecosystems in a diversity of biomes – function and respond to environmental change.
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IDEA OF ICE AGE 'SPECIES PUMP' IN THE PHILIPPINES BOOSTED BY NEW WAY OF DRAWING EVOLUTIONARY TREES
Professor Rafe Brown is co-author of a recent investigation published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, which reveals statistical support for a “species pump” in the Philippines during the ice age. Lead author Jamie Oaks of Auburn University and co-author Cameron Siler of the…
Justin Blumenstiel Receives Mentor Award
Congratulations to Justin Blumenstiel. He’s the recipient of the 2022 Grant Goodman Undergraduate Mentor Award! This award honors faculty whose mentorship continues to support and inspire students long after they leave the classroom.
Genomic research on scrub jays reveals new species
The paper, appearing in Systematic Biology, uses genomic data to sketch a natural history of scrub jays, showing how geographic changes over millennia split up and reconnected groups of the birds, swaying the flow of genes between them. Lead author Devon DeRaad, is a doctoral student at the…
Congratulations to three EEB professors for recent awards
Victor H. Gonzalez Betancourt received the Bob & Kathie Taylor Excellence in Teaching Award.
Mart Mort received the Chancellors Club Teaching Professorship.
Paulyn Cartwright received the Ned Fleming Trust Award.
Congratulations on your well-deserved achievements!
Sharon Billings named University Distinguished Professor
Sharon Billings, dean’s professor and senior scientist, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology and Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research has received the designation of University Distinguished Professor. Billings is known nationally and internationally for working…
Genomics Research Initiative Selected to Receive Research Rising Award
The project, Growing KU’s Interdisciplinary Strengths in Genomics, is one of four selected by the university, and aims to unlock the secrets held in genomes to understand where we come from, how we fight disease, how organisms respond to a changing environment/climate, and new bioengineering app
Center for Undergraduate Research Honors Students, Mentors
Lena Hileman, professor and chair of the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, is the recipient of the 2022 K. Barbara Schowen Undergraduate Research Mentor Award. Srishti Baid, doctoral candidate in molecular biosciences, and Pietro Longo Hollanda De Mello, doctoral candidate in…
Billings receives Byron A. Alexander Outstanding Graduate Mentor Award
Congratulations to Dr. Sharon Billings, recipient of the Byron A. Alexander Outstanding Graduate Mentor Award. This award is given to honor a faculty member who demonstrates exceptional effort, care, and guidance in advising graduate students.
Ellis receives undergraduate research award
Congratulations to Martel Ellis, a senior studying Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, who received the Undergraduate Research Award for Summer, for their work in "MAMP Comparison Between Hybrid and Inbred Maize Genotypes."
KU's 'I Am Striving Series': Featuring Paulyn Cartwright
Paulyn Cartwright, professor of ecology & evolutionary biology, shares what inspires her research and work, along with her goals for that research.
Watch a video and read a story about how Cartwright uses her study subject, jellyfish and their relatives, to help understand the evolutionary…