Student News

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 .

Scott Yanco Dissertation Defense 2:00 p.m. March 9, 2017 Please email jacki.craig@ucdenver.edu for Zoom Link information In Light of Ecology: Eco-Evolutionary Strategies for Persistence in Seasonal Environments The annual cycle of seasons is one of the most important sources of environmental variation that organisms face. In response, species have evolved...

Tiffany Gentry (Senior, Biology) has been awarded an Alice Eastwood Scholarship from the Colorado Native Plant Society. The scholarship, which was established by Professor Emeritus Leo P Bruederle, commemorates the early career of Alice Eastwood in Denver (1879-1892) who, as a self-trained botanist became an important contributor to a better...

Celebrating the Class of 2020 Virtual Fall Commencement Ceremony Saturday, December 12 10:00 a.m. Please review the information below for details about the celebration this Saturday. Watching The Ceremony The direct links to the ceremony video will be posted on the commencement website the morning of December 12. Graduates will...

Congratulations go out to Michael Alley (Bachelor of Science,Biology) for being selected as the CLAS 2020 Fall Outstanding Achievment Award recipient!

Congratulations to Integrative Biology Masters candidates, Megan Cherny and Richard Jones on their successful thesis defenses this month!

The Department is happy to announce our two current awardees for the Dissemination/Travel Grant awards. Congratulations to Katherine Hayes and Lahari Gadey. We look forward to hearing about the virtual conferences you chose and the presentations you made.

Integrative Biology is pleased to announce that MS student Megan Cerny’s thesis defense will be taking place via Zoom on Thursday, November 12th at 11:00 am . Megan is a member of Dr. Amanda Charlesworth’s lab and the title of her thesis is "Differential Expression of Oct Paralogs During Early...