Student News

Ally Davidge is a master's student in the Wunder/Hartley lab studying the impacts of 1938 redlining policies on Cooper’s hawk occupancy in Denver, Colorado. She recently received the Integrative Biology Department’s travel award to visit an urban Cooper’s hawk expert, Dr. Brian Millsap , who has been studying a population...

Department of Integrative Biology Graduate Thesis Defense. Congratulations to Sarah Louie M.S. Student in Dr. Brad Stith’s lab on her successful thesis defense! Sarah has accepted an offer from Oregon State’s Biochemistry and Biophysics PhD program and is “very excited” about the next chapter in her educational journey. We wish...

Department of Integrative Biology Graduate Thesis Defense. UPDATE! We are pleased to announce that Andrew is now Dr. Andrew J. Andrade ! Andrew is joining the Desert Research Institute in Reno, Nevada as a postdoctoral fellow where he’ll be examining the relationship between increasing aridity in the western US and...

Congratulations to Margaret Tanner, a student in Dr. Ben Greenwood’s lab, for being awarded the CLAS Outstanding PhD Graduate Award for Spring 2022. Margaret will be recognized at the Spring commencement and at a rewards reception also in the Spring. Many best wishes Margaret, from the Department of Integrative Biology.

The Integrative Biology (IB) Awards, Scholarship and Outreach (ASO) Committee is soliciting self-nominations and faculty/staff nominations for students that have excelled in their programs. We recognize students in the following categories: • Integrative Biology Graduate Student Excellence in Research Award ($250 from Smilodon) • Integrative Biology Graduate Student Excellence in...

CU Denver Dept. of Integrative Biology Graduate Student Thesis Defense We are pleased to announce that Michael's thesis defense was a success! Congratulations Michael! Michael Kain Integrative Biology M.S. Candidate in Dr. Annika Mosier’s Lab WHEN: Thursday, Dec. 2, 2021 at Noon WHERE: Seminar will be presented via Zoom Zoom...

CU Denver Dept. of Integrative Biology Graduate Student Ph.D.Dissertation Defense KATHERINE FU Integrative Biology Ph.D. Candidate in Dr. Rebecca Hufft’s Lab, Denver Botanic Gardens WHEN: Nov. 17, 2021 at 9:30 am MDT WHERE: Seminar will be presented via Zoom Zoom Meeting: You can email Jacki Craig for the Zoom Link...

CU Denver Dept. of Integrative Biology Graduate Student Thesis Defense ADAM DUSTER Integrative Biology Ph.D. Candidate in Dr. Hai Lin Lab WHEN: Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2021, at 10:00 am WHERE: Seminar will be presented via Zoom Zoom Meeting: Please email Jacki Craig for the Zoom Link Information but preferably before...

Annelise Rue-Johns, a Ph.D. student in Dr. Brian Buma's lab (CU Denver Integrative Biology) has a recent publication in Northwest Science. In this paper, Annelise and coauthors develop ways to estimate understory biomass in the forest floor, an important but very poorly constrained pool of carbon in temperate rainforest ecosystems...

CU Denver Dept. of Integrative Biology Graduate Student Ph.D. Comprehensive Exam ALLISON K. PIERCE Integrative Biology Ph.D. Candidate in Dr. Michael Wunder’s Lab WHEN: Sept. 30, 2021, at 9 am MDT WHERE: Seminar will be presented via Zoom Zoom Meeting: You can email Jacki Craig for the Zoom Link Information...