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Ben Freeman, Once war refugee in Liberia, now KU-EEB doctoral student trying to conserve the rain forest that saved his life.
July 10, 2019
Lawrence native named KBS Director
July 8, 2019
EEB graduate student Ali Khalighifar uses AI to indentify bugs that spread Chagas disease
July 2, 2019
Emeritus Professor, Chip Taylor, indicates migratory behavior in Monarch butterflies are very fragile part of the system.in migrating south.
June 25, 2019
EEB Alumni discover new species of Tweezer-Beaked Rats
June 13, 2019
Congratulations 2019 EEB PhD graduates and mentors
May 20, 2019
New EEB graduate students Tim Burnette and Kathleen Rust awarded Self Graduate Fellowships
April 25, 2019
Katie Tapondjou receives Lewis and Clark Award
April 16, 2019
EEB Graduate Students win Field Station Awards
April 16, 2019
Michael Engel receives Nautilus Book Award
April 12, 2019
Jayhawks Breaking Barriers (JBB) win award for raising awareness about gender and diversity gap in STEMM
April 10, 2019
Kirsten Jensen to receive University Scholarly Achievement Award
April 3, 2019
Undergraduate student mentored by Emily Arsenault awarded Instars Fellowship
April 1, 2019
EEB researchers study the microbiome of a native prairie.
March 22, 2019
Kansas Biological Survey scientists and graduate student study prairie health.
March 22, 2019
Anna Goddard, mentored by Maria Orive, nominated for Goldwater Scholarship
March 19, 2019
Michael Engel publishes in The Washington Post
March 4, 2019
Camille Delavaux and Jim Bever paper published in Nature Ecology & Evolution
February 25, 2019
Monarch colony found in Mexico steep mountainside
February 19, 2019
EEB faculty mentor undergraduate research awardees
February 19, 2019
Johana Goyes Vallejos (mentored by Rafe Brown) research in National Geographic
February 6, 2019
Robin Abraham (mentored by Rafe Brown) awarded National Geographic Society grant.
February 5, 2019
Monarch population up but will climate change pose a threat to the species.
February 1, 2019
Nature Magazine ranks stained fish skeleton by EEB faculty member and BI curator Leo Smith and EEB graduate student Matt Girard as one of the "Best Science Images of the Year"
December 17, 2018
Nature magazine picks Michael Engel's book: Innumerable Insects as Top 5 reads!
December 17, 2018
Johana Goyes Vallejos, post-doctoral reseacher, featured research in New York Times
December 4, 2018
Chris Beard published research in PLOS One details insight into evolution of animal life on islands
November 16, 2018
EEB graduate students in the Biodiversity Institute use pop-up exhibits to display natural history collections
November 14, 2018
EEB Graduate student Matthew Travert recipient of Fall 2018 Chancellor's Doctoral Fellowship
November 7, 2018
KU Field Station to Host 3rd Biennial Frolic/Mari Pesek Memorial Run on November 10
November 2, 2018
EEB's Paige Hansen is a member of the inaugural cohort of Self Senior Fellows
October 26, 2018
Amy Burgin, Associate Professor in EEB, will present talk on Kansas River water quality
October 3, 2018
Jorge Soberon receives Distinguished Mexican Award from Consulate of Mexico!
September 28, 2018
Kate Ingenloff awarded GBIF Young Researcher Award for innovative approach to niche modelling
September 26, 2018
Billings co-investigates structural soil changes that influence water quality.
September 19, 2018
KU researchers teach summer course at KU Field Station
September 14, 2018
Leo Smith's research uses State-of-the Art imaging techniques
September 5, 2018
Engel's research recently appeared in New York Times
August 27, 2018
Strotz and Lieberman studies 'survival of the sluggish'
August 22, 2018
Mark Mort receives Ned N. Fleming Teaching award
August 2, 2018
Madison Foster wins Maynard F. Moseley Award
July 30, 2018
EEB/KBS researchers probe harmful algal blooms in state's reservoirs
July 26, 2018
Michael Engel named Distinguished Professor
July 19, 2018
EEB faculty and doctoral candidate, Sally Chang dicover a unique form of coloniality
July 11, 2018
Four EEB students win Field Station Awards
June 20, 2018
EEB faculty mentor students who receive Undergraduate Research Awards
June 13, 2018
Reuman receive NSF funding to study importance of synchrony in ecological systems
May 17, 2018
Andrew Mongue recipient of the 2018 Undergraduate Research Mentor Award
May 10, 2018
Camille Delavaux selected for Fulbright award to Ecuador
May 2, 2018
Chet Bhatta receives 2018 Best Dissertation Chapter on an International Topic Award from Phi Beta Delta, Honor Society of International Scholars, Alpha Pi Chapter, University of Kansas.
May 2, 2018
Jorge Soberon elected into prestigious American Academy of Arts and Sciences
April 19, 2018
EEB Graduate Student Organization Honored for Outreach Efforts with Girl Scouts
April 12, 2018
EEB students win awards at the Kansas Academy of Science and Kansas Entomolgical Society Meetings, Washburn Univerisity
April 10, 2018
Leo Smith's research on venomous fish evolve a glowing eye spike
March 29, 2018
EEB researchers assist in finding five new fossil forests in Antarctica
March 26, 2018
KU Field Station ready for controlled burns
March 12, 2018
Jensen's research reveals 'underappreciated' beauty of tapeworms!
February 28, 2018
Andrew Short receives Fullbright Scholarship to conduct research in Brazil
February 23, 2018
Inaugural Lecture to be presented by Distinguished Foundation Professor James Bever,
February 15, 2018
Emily Arsenault discusses NSF river research expeditions into Mongolia and the Western US during Friday Ecology Seminar
February 13, 2018
Laura Breitkreuz, EEB graduate student, co-authors Annual Reviews chapter on evolution of lacewings
February 1, 2018
Research paper reveals lizards in Asia to be similar cousins to geckos.
January 25, 2018
EEB faculty collaborates on NSF grant that creates 3-D imaging for ornithology and ichthyology collections.
January 23, 2018
Taylor research team on mission to gather petrified Antarctic plants.
December 6, 2017
EEB professor co-authors book on how wolves and humans co-evolved
November 21, 2017
Jensen's research spends almost a decade discovering and describing tapeworms
November 21, 2017
EEB professor named fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
November 20, 2017
EEB grad student Chan Kin Onn (mentored by Rafe Brown) finds that using "black box" methods may overestimate the number of new speicies
November 15, 2017
A recent study demonstrates cautious implementation and interpretation should be considered when declaring new species.
November 14, 2017
Entomology Professor asked to identify insect in world-famous Van Gogh masterpiece.
November 10, 2017
Walter Tapondjou's proposal funded to do field work in Kimbi-Fungom National Park (Cameroon)
October 30, 2017
KU researchers made strong showing at the Indonesian Southeast Asian Gateway to Evolution Biogeography meetings
October 30, 2017
Bever's NSF grant focuses on key factor in maintaining microscopic organisms in soil
October 27, 2017
Grey Gustafson research published in the journal of Scientific Reports stretches back 206 million years!
October 4, 2017
Che-Ling Ho awarded Outstanding Thesis Award
October 3, 2017
Alex Erwin receives Student Achiever Award
September 22, 2017
Brian Atkinson's fossil displayed on International Journal of Plant Science
September 19, 2017
Bever and Billings receives collaborative NSF award to study microorganisms
September 19, 2017
EEB graduate student Javier Torres donates important Cuban reptile tissue collection
September 12, 2017
Michael Engel named recipient of the Thomas Say Award
September 8, 2017
Bryan Foster's long-term research results in the restoration of native prairie ecosystem
August 30, 2017
Courtney Coppinger's undergraduate research award leads to successful learning experience.
August 7, 2017
Resarch collaboration between Bever and Sikes and The Land Institute aims to make farming viable for the long term.
August 1, 2017
EEB REU students to present summer research
July 27, 2017
EEB students receive KU Field Station Research Awards
July 13, 2017
Marilyn Barragan joins elite group of Astronaut Scholars for the 2017-18
June 20, 2017
Camille Delavaux awarded Young Explorer grant to study the role of soil microbes in plant invasions on the Galapagos Islands
June 13, 2017
David Cuellar receives summer 2017 Undergraduate Research Award
June 6, 2017
Rachel Bowes receives Marnie and Bill Argersinger Award
May 23, 2017
Chip Taylor honored by Garden Club of America
May 9, 2017
Camille Delavaux and Kaylee Herzog selected for the prestigious Madison and Lila Self Graduate Fellowship
May 3, 2017
Invasive species love climate change
May 3, 2017
Emma Hauser and Theo Michaels receive KU Field Station Student Research Awards
May 2, 2017
Sara Taliaferro selected for the Lawrence Coalition for Peace and Justice Award
May 1, 2017
Camille Delavaux and Pietro De Mello awarded Summer Pre-Dissertation Grants
April 20, 2017
Leo Smith's research with fish venoms may lead to alleviating pain.
April 19, 2017
Alex Erwin awarded Kathleen McCluskey-Fawcett Woman Mentoring Women Award
April 12, 2017
Kaila Colyott awarded Marlesa and Hannalesa Roney Student Success Mentor Award
April 12, 2017
Amy Burgin's research relates to climate change and drinking water.
March 29, 2017
Chet Bhatta's teaching recognized with GTA award
March 20, 2017
Lieberman's research on fossils of Kansas chalk featured in Chancellor's report
March 14, 2017
Distinguished Professor Soberon to showcase distribution of species talk
March 10, 2017
Lauren Fitzgerald creates ecology video with Undergraduate Research Award
March 9, 2017
Life history and scientific achievements of Stephen Baca
March 9, 2017
Andrew Short to conduct entomology research in Suriname
March 6, 2017
EEB Graduate students help empower Undergraduate women in STEM at KU
February 23, 2017
Discovery magazine announces New Guinea mammal as Top Discovery for 2016
February 1, 2017
Chris Beard receives David B. Jones Foundation grant to develop new paleontologist at KU
January 31, 2017
Emerging Scholars engaged in research with EEB faculty
November 9, 2016
Moyle and Brown conduct research in Solomon Islands
November 2, 2016
Mindanao island in Southern Philippines a biodiversity hotspot for Rafe Brown's research
October 24, 2016
Haufler's fern research proves inaccuracies in most biology textbooks.
October 12, 2016
Rob Moyle awarded $1.3 millon NSF research grant
September 27, 2016
Michael Engel interviewed by NSF Science360 radio
September 2, 2016
Moyle's research on Songbirds diversification in Australia published in Nature Communications
August 31, 2016
Rachel Bowes and Joy Ward honored as Women of Distinction
August 26, 2016
Research headed by recent EEB graduate Abdallah Samy predicts the spread of Zika around the world
August 12, 2016
Leo Smith's research on Venomous fish appear in the journal of Integrative and Comparative Biology
July 7, 2016
EEB graduate student Kathy Denning awarded NSF grant to research plant-pollinator networks across tallgrass prairies
July 7, 2016
Hileman's research could hold answers about how natural selection enables flowers to shift stratgies from bee pollination to hummingbird pollination
June 21, 2016
Claire Tracy receives Undergraduate Research Award
June 16, 2016
Leo Smith's research studies variety of bioluminescent ocean fishes
June 9, 2016
EEB students awarded 2016 Tinker Field Research Grants
June 3, 2016
EEB students receive KU Field Station Student Research Awards
June 3, 2016
Former EEB Graduate elected to the National Academy of Sciences
May 9, 2016
Chris Beard's research published in Science
May 9, 2016
EEB graduate students Sally Chang, Alex Erwin, Lucas Hemmer, and Luke Klicka participate in DNA Day 2016 high school science classroom outreach program in Kansas
May 9, 2016
KU remembers Distinguished Professor Thomas N. Taylor
May 5, 2016
EEB faculty mentor undergraduate research presentations
April 29, 2016
Matt Girard (mentored by Leo Smith) awarded the Graduate Studies Summer Research Fellowship
April 21, 2016
Rachel Bowes (mentored by Jim Thorp) recognized as a 2016-2017 Woman of Distinction
April 21, 2016
Jennifer Stern honored as The Sally Mason Woman Student in Science award
April 13, 2016
KU mourns the death of Professor Val H. Smith
April 7, 2016
Kaila Colyott awarded Graduate Studies GTA Award
April 4, 2016
EEB graduate student Daphne Mayes presents award winning poster
April 4, 2016
Dorothy Johanning February employee of the month
March 30, 2016
EEB Graduate student Jesse Grismer researches the role of land bridges linking ancient India and Eurasia on biodiversity exchange
March 24, 2016
Rich Glor receives NSF grant to analyze how lizards branch into varous species.
March 10, 2016
Ecology & Evolutionary and Molecular Biosciences graduate students organize symposium exploring non-academic careers in science
February 24, 2016
Jesse Grismer's publication featured on BMC Evolutionary Biology
February 23, 2016
The College offers several faculty awards to recognize outstanding faculty in service, teaching, and advising
February 23, 2016
Kaila Colyott's Dissertation Improvement grant recommended for funding
February 23, 2016
7 EEB students receive Undergraduate Research Awards for Spring
February 10, 2016
Mark Mort is co-PI on a $2.5 millon NSF TRESTLE grant award
February 10, 2016
EEB graduate student Kathy Denning awarded NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant
February 4, 2016
Dan Reuman co-authors paper on how climate change affects crop pests like aphids.
January 27, 2016
EEB scientists selected as "Highly Cited Researchers"
January 27, 2016
Climate change affects ecological crop pests like aphids.
December 9, 2015
Early anthropoid primate species discovered in Libya
November 23, 2015
Sally Chang and Paulyn Cartwright's research on 'micro jellyfish' is published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
November 17, 2015
KU mourns the passing of Charles D. Michener
November 5, 2015
Recent donation aids undergraduate student scholarships and honors Chip Taylor!
November 4, 2015
David Alexander publishes new book on animal flight!
October 27, 2015
Jim Thorp and his co-investigators receive 4.2 million from NSF to conduct pioneering research on vast river systems.
October 26, 2015
Emmanuel Toussaint awarded 2016 R.J.H. Hintelmann Award
October 19, 2015
Robert Timm and collaborators describe virus that causes cancer in cottontail rabbits
October 8, 2015
Chip Taylor's Monarch Watch receives $527K grant from National Fish and Wildlife Foundation
September 30, 2015
Chris Beard presents inaugural lecture
September 25, 2015
Mackenzie Johnson awarded Undergraduate Research Award
September 10, 2015
Andrew Short elected President-Elect of Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity Section of ESA
September 1, 2015
Chris Beard's research studies mammal evolution in Turkey
August 19, 2015
REU undergraduate students present summer research
August 13, 2015
Carla Harper awarded Isabel Cookson Award at the Botanical Society meeting
August 5, 2015
EEB graduate student Joe Manthey finds that environment triggers genetic differences in bird populations
July 14, 2015
Chan Kin Onn's research in Malaysia featured in Nature World News
July 7, 2015
Temperature shifts relate to loss of bird species in Mexico
July 7, 2015
Joe Manthey and Rob Moyle publish exciting paper in Molecular Ecology
July 2, 2015
Chan Kin Onn awarded National Geographic Society grant to study diversity in his native country of Malaysia
June 30, 2015
Jacob Carter awarded postdoctoral fellowship through the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education
June 23, 2015
EEB Graduate Student Organization active in science outreach
June 23, 2015
Katie Becklin receives the IRACDA Outstanding Scholar Award
June 23, 2015
Cicada project needs volunteers
June 16, 2015
Rafe Brown's research team finds two species of amphibians lost to science
June 15, 2015
Taylor Broadhead, KU McNair program scholar is awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
June 15, 2015
EEB students receive Undergraduate Research awards
June 9, 2015
Jennifer Stern nominated for prestigious Astronaut Scholarship
May 28, 2015
Charles Michener interviewed by Nature
May 28, 2015
Congratulations to Kin Onn Chan on being awarded National Geographic grant
May 12, 2015
Daphne Mayes provides outreach education about wild bees for the new bee hotel
May 8, 2015
EEB scientists reveal top six supermoms found in nature
May 5, 2015
Carla Harper 2015 recipient of the Undergraduate Research Mentor Award
April 30, 2015
Kaila Colyott awarded Graduate Research Competition Award
April 30, 2015
Boryana Koseva awarded Carlin Graduate Teaching Assistant Award
April 30, 2015
Rachel Bowes receives honorable mention for the Undergraduate Research Mentor Award
April 30, 2015
Joy Ward receives Undergraduate Mentor Award
April 20, 2015
Hannah Owens awarded NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
April 7, 2015
Beard conducts research in Sirt Basin site in Libya
March 12, 2015
Rachel Bowes awarded DDIG
January 28, 2015
EEB Undergraduate Research Award winners selected
January 15, 2015
Rafe Brown's research team finds new lizard species on Philippine black market
January 15, 2015
Jacob Carter (mentored by Joy Ward) selected as 2015 Presidential Management Fellow semi-finalist
December 17, 2014
Kathy Roccaforte poster awarded the President's Prize
December 12, 2014
KU Field Station picked for NSF NEON project
November 17, 2014
Thomas and Edith Taylor's Research Team Travels to Antarctica
November 13, 2014
Carla Harper, EEB graduate student in paleobotany, joins Antarctic research expedition
November 12, 2014
Chancellor's Doctoral Fellowship recipient Keely Brown featured in KU Today
November 11, 2014
Chris Beard to present at KU Library lecture series
October 15, 2014
Trevor Rivers works with BBC-TV to make documentary
October 1, 2014
Peterson leads the Virtual Vector Project
September 24, 2014
Student Spotlight: Jenny Stern
September 3, 2014
Sukhindervir Sandhu's research with Lena Hileman tracks down gene that regulates plant hair growth
September 3, 2014
Novel evolutionary lineage of miniature primate discovered in Philippines
August 21, 2014
Chan Kin Onn discovers that a new species of frog has a doppelgänger
August 7, 2014
REU students present research
August 1, 2014
Ward and Becklin's packrat research reveals how plants coped with past climate change
July 30, 2014
Orive's research on species evolutionary lag time featured in KU Today
July 16, 2014
Jorge Soberón appointed Distinguished Professor
June 26, 2014
Sofia Munoz awarded doctoral fellowship from Ecuador Government
June 2, 2014
EEB graduate student Laura Breitkreuz introduces Harry Potter to the magical world of binominal nomenclature
May 20, 2014
Chip Taylor award winner of the 2014 Growing Green Pollinator Protector Award
May 19, 2014
Jesse Grismer awarded a $20,000 grant by the National Geographic Committee for Research and Exploration
May 15, 2014
Scott Travers awarded grant by the National Geographic Young Explorer's Club
May 15, 2014
Cori Fain and Kayla Sale award winning undergraduate research.
April 30, 2014
Rachel Bowes award winner of the 2014 Undergraduate Research Mentor Award
April 29, 2014
Michael Engel recently receives University Scholarship Achievement award
April 21, 2014
Maria Orive awarded NSF grant to model the effects of clonal structure on the rate of evolution.
April 18, 2014
Kirsten Jensen is recipient of Henry Baldwin Ward Medal
April 9, 2014
Michael Engel to receive University Scholarly Achievement Award
April 8, 2014
EEB researchers investigates blow to biodiversity in Philippines
April 8, 2014
EEB graduate students win awards at annual meeting of the Kansas Entomology Society and the Kansas Academy of Science
April 8, 2014
Alex Erwin and Stephen Baca awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowships
April 1, 2014
Joe Manthey awarded 2014 Graduate Studies Summer Research Fellowship
April 1, 2014
Carrie Wessinger receives NIH NRSA Fellowship
March 7, 2014
Permian plant fossil named for Edie Taylor
February 28, 2014
K. Christopher Beard named Distinguished Foundation Professor in EEB
February 25, 2014
Brown, Moyle, and Peterson awarded grant to re-survey sites in central Philippiness
February 11, 2014
Billings and Sikes awarded new Strategic Initiative Grant
February 3, 2014
Graduate students Andrès Lira and Joe Manthey publish article in Evolution
January 27, 2014
Chip Taylor and Monarch Watch in the NY Times
December 21, 2013
Smith awarded grant to study deep-sea fishes
December 12, 2013
Michael Engel featured in Guggenheim Foundation Newsletter
December 12, 2013
Michael Engel's work on "The Earliest Known Holometabolous Insects" in KU News
December 11, 2013
Daphne Fautin's work with ICZN featured in KU News
December 5, 2013
Billings awarded grant to establish Calhoun CZO
November 10, 2013
Foster awarded NSF Facilities grant
September 27, 2013
Brown's research featured in Nature
September 17, 2013
Peter Hosner discovers new bird species in Peru's cloud forest
July 25, 2013
Moyle recruited for expertise in Tailorbird genetics
July 19, 2013
Cartwright receives NSF IOS grant award
July 14, 2013
Brown's Research Featured in KU Today
June 13, 2013
Simões awarded Ernst Mayr Fellowship
May 18, 2013
Brown and Moyle receive RIC award from the Office of the Provost
May 7, 2013
Jamie Oaks Awarded 2013 Graduate Studies Summer Research Fellowship
April 27, 2013
Fautin's Research Featured on KU Today
April 26, 2013
Sofía Muñoz selected to participate in NSF-funded Thematic Collections Network Short Course
April 1, 2013
Michael Walker awarded 2nd place in Sigma Xi Research Competition
March 28, 2013
Val Smith Selected for ASLO Award
March 18, 2013
Gleason directs NSF REU Summer Program
March 14, 2013
David Hall Awarded Nature Conservancy J. E. Weaver Grant
March 1, 2013
Kathy Roccaforte Awarded Nature Conservancy J. E. Weaver Grant
March 1, 2013
Ward's Research Featured on KU Today
February 11, 2013
Billing's Research Featured on KU Today
January 11, 2013
Engel's research listed in Top 100 Discoveries for 2012
January 11, 2013
Brown Honored by Philippine Government
December 18, 2012
Short Receives UCR Grant Award
October 15, 2012
Taylor Honored with Career Award
October 12, 2012
Becklin Honored with Two Awards
August 8, 2012
Timm's Paper in Nature
July 25, 2012
Klymiuk Honored with Isabel Cookson Award
July 12, 2012
EEB Graduate Students Receive Awards from Undergraduate Biology Program
June 17, 2012
Simoes Receives Brazilian CNPq Fellowship
June 12, 2012
Lieberman's Research Featured on KU Today
June 12, 2012
Joe Manthey and Rob Moyle publish exciting paper in Molecular Ecology
KU Entomology Professor asked to identify insect in world-famous Van Gogh masterpiece

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July 10, 2019
Ben Freeman, Once war refugee in Liberia, now KU-EEB doctoral student trying to conserve the rain forest that saved his life.
July 8, 2019
Lawrence native named KBS Director
July 2, 2019
EEB graduate student Ali Khalighifar uses AI to indentify bugs that spread Chagas disease

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