Student News

The Department is pleased to announce the 2020 Spring Smilodon and Outstanding Student awardees. These students were nominated by faculty, staff, and students for their scholarly achievements, ethics, and contributions to the Department. The Awardees will be honored at a reception (to be announced at a later date) and, will...

Annelise Rue Johns, PhD student with the Buma lab, has been offered a 2020 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship to start this coming fall. The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) helps ensure the vitality of the human resource base of science and engineering in the United States and reinforces its...

Congratulations go out to Cameron Cornn and Marco Zocchi undergraduate students in Dr. Charlesworth’s lab. Cameron has been accepted into both Stanford Summer Research Program (SSRP) and the summer Cancer Research Experience for Undergraduates (CREU) at Anschutz. He accepted the SSRP at Stanford, where he will also be an Amgen...

The Department would like to congratulate Marianne on successfully defending her thesis. Job well done! Marianne Davenport Masters Candidate in Dr. Ragland’s Lab "Variability in Adult Reproductive Diapause of the Spruce Beetle, Dendroctonus rufipennis" Organisms modify their life history strategies in highly variable environments, such as seasonally cycling temperature and...

The Department would like to congratulate Margo on her successful defense of her thesis! Job well done!! Margo Pace Masters Candidate in Dr. Rebecca Hufft’s lab CU Denver Department of Integrative Biology/Denver Botanic Gardens. "Beaver Dam Analogs Impact Riparian Plant Communities". Margo is investigating whether man-made in-stream structures have the...

The Department would like to congratulate Tyler on his successful defense of his Masters Thesis. Job well done! Tyler Michels Masters Candidate in Dr. Michael Wunder's Lab CU Denver Dept. of Integrative Biology The mountain plover ( Charadrius montanus ) is a migratory shorebird that breeds in rangelands of the...

The Department is happy to announce... Lamya'a successfully defended her thesis on March 30, 2020, Congratulations Dr. Dawud! Lamya'a Dawud Thesis Defense - March 30, 2020 From Virginia Ware - PhD candidate Lamya’a Dawud’s defense is taking place via zoom on Monday, March 30 th at 1 pm. I’ve provided...

Graduating senior, Matthew Mitchell , has been accepted into a number of medical schools for Fall 2020. They include Harvard University, the Mayo Clinic, University of Colorado, University of Pittsburgh, Creighton University, University of Minnesota, and the MD/PhD program at the University of Cincinnati. Matt has not yet decided where...

The Department would like to congratulate Liam on his successful defense of his thesis. Job well done! "City Bees: An Investigation of the Drivers of Bee Abundance and Bee Richness Along a Rural-to-Urban Gradient" This talk will highlight the bee community of the High Line Canal, an urban greenway in...

In early December, two Integrative Biology undergraduate students, Kristin Olson and Vishnusai Kodicherla , and two graduate students, Kate Hayes and Kyle Turchick , (not pictured) presented their research projects in Alaska at the largest earth science conference in the world, the annual AGU meeting in San Francisco, California. As...