Trevor Price, PhD, Professor of Ecology and Evolution, has been elected a Fellow of The Royal Society, an organization of many of the world's most eminent scientists and the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence. There are ~1,700 Fellows and Foreign Members, including around 85 Nobel Laureates; this year, 60 scientists from around the world were elected Fellows or Foreign Members of the Society for their outstanding contributions
BSD Dean Kenneth Polonsky has formally announced the appointment of J. Timothy Wootton, PhD, as chair of the Committee on Evolutionary Biology (CEB), effective May 1, 2022.
The Department of Ecology & Evolution, and its affiliated PhD training program, has been awarded a GAANN training grant through the U.S. Department of Education, focused on Quantitative Ecology.
The following students are presenting dissertation defenses in Summer Quarter 2021. Please look for emails to the clusterall listserv for specific information on joining students' presentations via Zoom.
The following students are presenting dissertation defenses, or proposal defenses, in Spring Quarter 2021. Please look for emails to the clusterall listserv for specific information on joining students' presentations via Zoom.
As we reach the one-year anniversary of the U.S., and the University of Chicago, shutting down in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, we recognize Ecology & Evolution faculty and students who have been on the front lines of research, communication and outreach:
The following students are presenting dissertation defenses, or proposal defenses, in Autumn Quarter 2020. Please look for emails to the clusterall listserv for specific information on joining students' presentations via Zoom.
The following students are presenting dissertation defenses, or proposal defenses, in Summer Quarter 2020. Please look for emails to the clusterall listserv for specific information on joining students' presentations via Zoom.
We wish to extend hearty congratulations to E&E doctoral candidate Arvind Pillai, on the publication of Origin of complexity in haemoglobin evolution in the journal Nature this past May.
Congratulations to Jiawei Liu, E&E PhD candidate and second author on Stochasticity and Infectious Disease Dynamics: Density and Weather Effects on a Fungal Insect Pathogen, which was published in the March 2020 edition of The American Naturalist.
