Integrative Biology News

Funded by the Obama Foundation, the Voyager Scholarship Program is a two-year, leadership development and scholarship program. William is the only student in the state of Colorado to receive the scholarship this year.

Why Life-Changing Scholarship Opportunities at CU Denver Were Only the Beginning for Scott Cao ’17

Sara Branco (Assistant Professor, Integrative Biology) received funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the United States Department of Agriculture National Institute for Food and Agriculture (USDA NIFA) to support SPORES, a mentorship program for underrepresented undergraduate students. This project is a collaboration with Clark University, Purdue University, and...

Diana Tomback, Professor of Integrative Biology, explains the effects of climate change and blister rust on whitebark pine restoration in an article by popular environmental writer Jim Robbins for Yale Environment 360 . Yale Environment 360 , Jan. 11

Some species have been able to meet the challenge with rapid evolutionary adaptation and other changes in behavior or physiology. Dark-colored dragonflies are getting paler in order to reduce the amount of heat they absorb from the sun. Mustard plants are flowering earlier to take advantage of earlier snowmelt. Lizards...

Michael Moore, Assistant Professor of Integrative Biology, led a study analyzing data on 800 species of insects around the world and discovered that flying insects (many of them pollinators) are migrating at slower rates than their non-flying counterparts and appear to be dying at faster rates. That includes many insect...

"Fire is a perfectly normal thing in Colorado," said Brain Buma, Associate Professor of Integrative Biology. "It's been here for tens of thousands of years, and it will be... our forests are quite adapted to those fires.” But Mother Nature's job is getting harder. "The fires that we're getting now...

“The listing of whitebark pine provides authority, coordination, additional funding sources, and soon, a roadmap for restoration,” says Diana Tomback, Professor of Integrative Biology and Policy and Outreach Coordinator for the Whitebark Pine Ecosystem Foundation. Whitebark Pine Tree Gets Endangered Species Act Protection All About Birds , April 5

Integrative Biology Professor Diana Tomback, along with Summer Merrell and Chariss Thexton (Biology undergraduate independent study students in the Tomback Forest Ecology Lab), attended the February Colorado Wildlife Commission meeting, at the Adams County Fairgrounds. This meeting was the last opportunity for public comment on the Draft Colorado Wolf Restoration...

Showy traits like dark pigmentation on a dragonfly’s wings or a lion’s big, dark mane play a key role in how some animals choose a mate. New research suggests that climate change is making some classically attractive traits more difficult to pull off. Evolutionary Ecologist and Assistant Professor of Integrative...