News
More news
Featured Story
Science On Tap: 7:30-8:30 PM Wednesday, July 24 at Free State Brewing Company
Join us at Free State Brewing Company for the next Science on Tap event featuring Dr. Jorge Soberón, University Distinguished Professor in the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology and a senior scientist in biodiversity modeling at the KU Biodiversity Institute and Natural History Museum. The presentation, "On Redcoats, Bugs, and the Nopal. A Tale of Science and Commerce," will combine history and science to explain how a tiny cactus-dwelling insect, native to subtropical South America, became a global commodity in the 16th century.
More news
Science On Tap: 7:30-8:30 PM Wednesday, July 24 at Free State Brewing Company
Join us at Free State Brewing Company for the next Science on Tap event featuring Dr. Jorge Soberón, University Distinguished Professor in the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology and a senior scientist in biodiversity modeling at the KU Biodiversity Institute and Natural History Museum…
Five standout educators recognized as Kemper Fellows
Congratulations to Biology Assistant Professor Jenny Archibald for her achievement as one of five faculty members who received the William T. Kemper Fellowship for Teaching Excellence.
KU announces promotion and tenure for 149 faculty and researchers
Chancellor Douglas A. Girod has approved the promotion and award of tenure, where indicated, for 64 individuals at the University of Kansas Lawrence and Edwards campuses and 85 individuals at the KU Medical Center campuses. This include two of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology's own professors.…
Researchers parse oddity of distantly related bats in Solomon Islands that appear identical
The research team behind the study from the University of Melbourne, Australia, included several evolutionary biologists from the University of Kansas — who collected specimens in the field, conducted genetic analysis and co-wrote the research appearing in the journal Evolution. This includes…
EEB alumnus nominated into the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
KU EEB alumnus Rob Anderson, Ph.D. 2001, was recently elected to the rank of Elected Fellow in the AAAS. Anderson is currently a Professor in the Department of Biology at City College of New York, City University of New York. Election as a Fellow honors members whose efforts on behalf of the…
Dr. Rafe Brown selected as Fulbright U.S. Scholar for 2024-2025 for Philippines
Congratulations to Rafe Brown, Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, and curator-in-charge of the Herpetology Division of the KU Biodiversity Institute & Natural History Museum! Brown largely conducts research in the Philippines, Indonesia and the Solomon Islands, but he has…
KU, Haskell students to present research projects at 24th annual symposium
Thirteen undergraduate students and six postbaccalaureate scholars supported by KU’s Office for Diversity in Science Training will present posters explaining their research from 4 to 5:30 p.m. April 12 in Navarre Hall at Haskell.
The presenters include undergraduates from KU and Haskell, along…
Red Hot Research: Friday, March 29, 4 to 5:30 PM, Watson Library, 3 West
Plan to attend to see Undergraduate Biology’s Jenny Archibald discuss systematics, taxonomy, species, plant, diversity.
Red Hot Research introduces researchers to the work of their colleagues; prompts questions within current research through the perspectives of many disciplines; and develops…
Red Hot Graduate Research: Friday, March 22, 4 to 5:30 p.m., Watson Library, 3 West
EEB and the BI research highlighted once again at Red Hot Research! Plan to attend to see EEB's Keana Tang present. Red Hot Graduate Research introduces KU scholars to the work of their colleagues; prompts questions within current research through the perspectives of many disciplines; and develops…
Tang receives MAGS Distinguished Thesis Award
Keana Tang, PhD Candidate and National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow with the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at KU, has been awarded the Midwestern Association of Graduate Schools (MAGS) Distinguished Thesis Award for the Biological Sciences. The award recognizes and…