Student News

Colorado native Elizabeth “Libby” Pansing spent her high school and undergraduate college years on the slopes, competing nationally in slopestyle (jumps and rails), half pipe, and boardercross. Her parents fostered a love of nature that led her to many adventures off the slopes as well: “I spent a considerable amount...

Kyle Turchick hosts a webinar on COSTAL MARGIN WEBINAR SERIES November 14, 2019 Topic: The role of wind and landslide disturbance in temperate rainforests Presenter: Kyle Turchick, University of Colorado Denver You can hear Kyle’s webinar here.

Lamya’a Dawud M.S., a doctoral student in Dr. Sondra Bland's lab with the department of Integrative and Systems Biology and a recipient of the 2019 Fall Graduate Student Travel Award, CLAS Travel Award, and Graduate School Travel Award has recently returned from presenting a poster at the Society for Neuroscience...

Julie Byle M.S., is doctoral student in Dr. Laurel Hartley's lab with the department of Integrative and Systems Biology and a recipient of the 2019 Fall Graduate Student Travel Award. She has just returned from speaking on the panel at the North American Association for Environmental Education national conference in...

The Department is pleased to announce and congratulate our 2019 Fall Semester Graduate Student Travel Awardees! David Bertolatus - Dr. Alan Vajda's lab Julie Byle - Dr. Greg Cronin's lab Marianne Davenport - Dr. Greg Ragland's lab Adam Duster - Dr. Hai Lin's lab Katherine Hayes - Dr. Brian Buma's...

Congratulations to Elizabeth (Libby) Pansing, PhD candidate in Dr. Diana Tomback’s lab, for her nomination as the Integrative Biology’s nominee for the 2019 Fall CLAS Outstanding PhD Student Award. Fall and Spring awards recpients will be honored at the CLAS Dean's Awards Reception on Friday, May 1st. Call for Spring...

Katherine Hayes , PhD. candidate in Dr. Brian Buma's lab , was awarded a GRIN (Graduate Research Innovation Grant) to expand her PhD work focusing on vegetation succession and in particular how changes in the post-fire communities alter flammability, testing the overall strength of negative feedbacks associated with the transition...

Andrés Andrade (PhD candidate in Dr. Diana Tomback's lab) was recently elected as the new student representative of the Vegetation section of the Ecological Society of America (ESA). Andrés and the new section chair were introduced to section members last week during the 2019 ESA meeting in Louisville, Kentucky. The...

Scott Yanco (PhD candidate in the Wunder Lab) was recently featured on the Wild Animals podcast, produced by the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences. The podcast series shares stories of individual animals told by researchers. Scott discussed his research on Flammulated Owl movement ecology and the story of one...

Raven Radio - Researchers conducting landslide studies in Sitka’s forests Dr. Adam Booth, Kyle Turchick, Bryce Vascik and David de Guzman joined KCAW’s Rich McClear in the studio for “The Morning Interview” to discuss their various landslide projects. The teams are conducting “ecosystem dynamics research”- examining how characteristics of the...