Student News

The Department would like to congratulate Jacob for successfully defending his thisis! Job well done Jacob! CU Denver Dept. of Integrative Biology Graduate Student Thesis Defense Jacob Carson Integrative Biology M.S. Candidate in Dr. Michel Greene’s Lab WHEN: April 16 th , 2:00pm WHERE: Seminar will be presented via Zoom...

The Department would like to congratulate Kyle for successfully defending his thisis! Job well done Kyle! CU Denver Dept. of Integrative Biology Graduate Student Thesis Defense Kyle Turchick Integrative Biology M.S. Candidate in Dr. Brian Buma’s Lab WHEN: April 16 th , 1:00p WHERE: Seminar will be presented via Zoom...

The Department of Integrative Biology would like to congratulate our student awardees for the 2021 Spring Smilodon Outstanding Underclassman/Upperclassman Awards, Integrative Biology Outstanding Student Awards and Dissemination/Travel Grants. SMILODON OUTSTANDING UNDERCLASSMAN & UPPERCLASSMAN AWARDS: The Smilodon Outstanding Scholar Endowment was established by a generous anonymous donation to support graduate and...

The Department would like to congratulate Gabrielle for successfully defending her thisis! Job well done Gabrielle! GABRIELLE RIETZ Integrative Biology M.S. Candidate in Dr. Christopher Phiel’s Lab WHEN: April 14 th , 12:30p-1:30p WHERE: Seminar will be presented via Zoom Zoom Meeting: Please email Jacki Craig for the Zoom Link...

The Department would like to congratulate Amanda for successfully defending her thisis!!! Job well done Amanda!!! Amanda Miller Integrative Biology M.S. Candidate in Dr. Rebecca Hufft’s Lab WHEN: April 8 th , 4:00p WHERE: Seminar will be presented via Zoom. Zoom Meeting: You can email Jacki Craig for the Zoom...

The department is excited to announce our newest PhD graduate, Dr. Scott Yanco who successfully defended his dissertation on March 9th. In Light of Ecology: Eco-Evolutionary Strategies for Persistence in Seasonal Environments My dissertation developed and applied a conceptual framework for addressing questions about ultimate eco-evolutionary drivers of organismal responses...

Lahari Gadey , a master’s student from the Ragland Lab in the Department of Integrative Biology, has finished her poster presentation for the 2021 Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB) annual conference which was virtual this year. Lahari presented a poster titled “A remarkably consistent life-history trait with a...

From Virginia Ware - Hi Everyone, I hope you all are doing well and had a great weekend. I’ve attached the updated “travel” award application for this spring – I say “travel” because as many of you know, there is still a University wide travel ban in place. That being...

Integrative Biology M.S. Candidate, Katherine Hayes received a second place recognition for her oral presentation at the Front Range Student Ecology Symposium. Katherine presented some results from the study she and Dr. Brian Buma conducted, investigating how multiple short-interval fires are changing forest community, forest structure and forest carbon in...

Integrative Biology PhD candidate, Katherine Hayes and Dr. Brian Buma have co-authored a paper, “Effects of short-interval disturbances continue to accumulate, overwhelming variability in local resilience” in Ecosphere. You can read the full article here .