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University of Colorado Denver Assistant Professor Brian Buma was awarded a $476,254 grant from the National Science Foundation . With this grant, Buma will explore what limits, if any, historical management patterns of carbon place on current carbon-management actions, and what that means for carbon management in the future. Carbon...

This summer , CU Denver’s seven deans announced a multiyear, $500,000 initiative meant to “strengthen research related to urban development at CU Denver through a transdisciplinary research initiative engaging all schools and colleges with a focus on enhancing life quality for all, now and into the future.” The initiative aligns...

Congratulations to Tassawwar Khan, a former student of Dr. Cheri Jones for being accepted into Rocky Vista College of Osteopathic Medicine!

Dr. Rachel Vannette Assistant Professor, Dept. of Entomology & Nematology University of California Davis WHEN: Oct. 30, 2020 at Noon WHERE: Seminar will be presented via Zoom Zoom Meeting https://ucdenver.zoom.us/j/91048440693 Ecology and evolution of flower microbes Flowers are essential to plant reproduction and pollinator health. Yet little is known about...

From Timberley Roan and Trishia Vasquez : It is with great sadness that we share with you news of Greg White’s passing . Greg passed away on Tuesday, September 29 th , due to complications from a long-standing illness. Greg will be dearly missed. As a project specialist, he was...

Dr. Jessie Uehling Assistant Professor of Fungal Biology Oregon State University WHEN: Oct. 23, 2020 at Noon WHERE: Seminar will be presented via Zoom Zoom Meeting https://ucdenver.zoom.us/j/91048440693 , Meeting ID: 910 4844 0693 Fungal endosymbiont evolution: insights into mechanisms, diversity, and ubiquity from the Mucoromycota fungi The generation of thousands...

CU Denver’s Timberley Roane passionately supports Native American/American Indian community Timberley Roane, Ph.D., is the recipient of the 2020 Chase Faculty Community Service award, recognition that honors her unrelenting support of the Native American/American Indian community in the education of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). An associate professor, Roane...

Dr. Katie Ferris Assistant Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Tulane University WHEN: Oct. 16th, 2020 at Noon WHERE : Seminar will be presented via Zoom Zoom Meeting https://ucdenver.zoom.us/j/91048440693 Meeting ID: 910 4844 0693 Natural selection on sympatric Monkeyflower species: variation over space and time Divergent natural selection can...

Dr. Anya Brown Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Postdoctoral Fellow WHEN: Oct. 9th, 2020 at Noon WHERE: Seminar will be presented via Zoom Zoom Meeting https://ucdenver.zoom.us/j/91048440693 Meeting ID: 910 4844 0693 Microbially-mediated species interactions and the extended phenotype Ecologists have begun to appreciate the wide-reaching associations between organisms and microbes, such...

Fruit flies have the uncanny ability to wake up from a months-long hibernation right when their food of choice is at its peak. A new study coauthored by Gregory Ragland, Assistant Professor of Integrative Biology, found many genes responsible for setting the fruit flies’ internal alarm clocks, and that an...