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    Hotspots, unearths the stories of people from all backgrounds and challenges viewers to view the world through a different lens. Carley Rutledge, built the Hotspots project with the aim to create a safe and
  • The annual U.S. News & World Report on global University rankings has placed ºÚÁÏÉçÇøÍø in the top 25 for Environment/ Ecology subjects. Globally, CU retained it's number 2 ratings for geosciences and ranks in the top 50 universities
  • painted lady butterfly refuels nectar stores during migration - photo by Jeff Mitton
    Painted ladies, Vanessa cardui migration continues through Colorado their 70-mile swarm was detected by weather radar. Professor Jeff Mitton shares insight and photos of the migration.
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    Each year, Provost Faculty Achievement awards are presented to select faculty members who have offered recent significant publications or creative contributions in their academic fields. Noah Fierer, Associate Professor has been awarded a Provost Faculty Achievement Award this year!
  • Max Wasser studies pikas near Mountain Research Station west of Boulder
    Undergraduates Max Wasser and Grace Kendziorski discuss their summer research experience at the Mountain Research Station
  • showerhead, water falling out of showerhead
    Noah Fierer, studies microbial communities that exist in the common household. Noah and research associate Matt Gerbert, are specifically interested in exploring what microbial communities might exist in shower heads. Using citizen science to
  • Aerial shot of the fairy circle landscape - photo by Lauren Shoemaker
    EBIO Graduate Student - Lauren Shoemaker, recalls her time spent in Namibia investigating  the formation of the famed Namibian Fairy Circles. Lauren, Nichole Barger and Holly Barnard spent half a month in the NamibRand Nature Reserve. Fairy
  • Kathryn Grabenstein holds a bird and examines its wing.
    Kathryn Grabenstein, a graduate student in the Taylor Lab, has received a Graduate Research Fellowship from the NSF for her dissertation project researching biodiversity and human-induced speciation/hybridization. Congratulations, Kathryn!Asked to
  • A caterpillar feeds on leaf flesh.
    Toby Hammer was interviewed about his work on the missing caterpillar gut microbiome in the May 18th, 2017 episode of the Nature podcast. His work (a preprint version) can be found on bioRxiv. The podcast is available for download from Nature's
  • EBIO graduate students Nathan Kleist (PhD 2017) and Clint Francis (PhD 2010) are featured in a recent article in Science about the increase and pervasiveness of noise pollution in the United States, especially in protected areas. Read about the
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