Faculty News

The Department of Integrative Biology is proud to celebrate a lifetime honor for our chair, Dr. Diana Tomback, who has just been named as an AAAS Fellow for the class of 2023! The American Association for the Advancement of Science is one of the world’s largest general scientific societies and...

“ Climate change is already forcing lizards, insects and other species to evolve – and most can't keep up”, an article written by Dr. Michael Moore and Dr. James T. Stroud, (Georgia Institute of Technology), was published in the current edition of Yahoo News – “The Conversation addresses. The article...

Diana Tomback, former Integrative Biology graduate student Thomas McLaren, and Yellowstone National Park wildlife biologists, publish a chapter on Clark's nutcrackers and whitebark pine in Yellowstone’s Birds: Diversity and Abundance in the World’s First National Park , a 2023 Princeton University Press book. This book is the first to describe...

The Ricketts Conservation Foundation and American Forests in association with Yellowstone National Park hosted an event on September 28, 2023, at the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman, Montana. The event publicized conservation work for whitebark pine and highlighted its seed disperser Clark’s nutcracker. This was the unveiling of a...

Bees, and Other Flying Insects, at Greater Risk of Climate Change Extinction, According to CU Denver and Georgia Tech Researchers CU Denver News, September 11, 2023 Press Release Flying insects struggle with low oxygen and thin air at high elevations . DENVER— In response to rising global temperatures, many plants...

Dr. Sara Branco is awarded a $1,169,284 Department of Energy, Joint Genome Institute (JGI) Director’s Science Program grant entitled ‘ Myco-Ed: Mycological Curriculum for Education and Discovery’ . This multi-institution effort lead by the JGI and involving the Arizona Genomics Institute, CU Denver, CU Boulder, Colorado State University, Oregon State...

Photo Credit - American Forests On March 22 nd , American Forests hosted the screening of the video, Hope and Restoration, at the National Press Club in Washington DC followed by a panel discussion. The purpose was to showcase the video on restoring whitebark pin, now a Threatened Species under...

Climate Change and Mating, an interview with Dr. Michael Moore 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...

Dr. Diana Tomback along with Summer Merrell and Chariss Thexton, (Biology undergraduate independent study students in the Tomback Forest Ecology Lab), attended the February 22 Colorado Wildlife Commission meeting, at Waymire Dome, Adams County Fairgrounds. This was the last opportunity for public comment on the Draft Colorado Wolf Restoration and...

Dr. Diana Tomback has been a tireless champion for the conservation of the whitebark pine, working through the non-Profit Organization, Whitebark Pine Ecosystem Foundation that she and colleagues founded in 2001. In December 2022, her efforts were rewarded when the tree was provided protection as a threatened species under the...