Integrative Biology

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NSF Awards Michael Moore, CU Denver Integrative Biology Professor, more than $640,000 in New Grant

Sept. 30, 2025

In July 2025, Michael Moore, assistant professor in the Department of Integrative Biology, was awarded more than $640,000 from the National Science Foundation. With this NSF grant, Dr. Moore's lab will use dragonflies to test if low oxygen prevents animal species from moving to higher elevations in response to climate...

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Whitebark Pine Faces 80% Decline in Current Habitat by 2050: What That Means for Bears, Birds, Farmers, and Ranchers

Sept. 23, 2025

A new study, led by federal agencies in collaboration with the University of Colorado Denver, shows that the whitebark pine tree could lose as much as 80 percent of its habitat to climate change in the next 25 years.

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CU Denver Attends Summit, Sparks Collaboration to Safeguard Yellowstone's Future

Sept. 12, 2025

A remote valley in western Wyoming became the epicenter of bold conservation conversations this August, when scientists, community leaders, and advocates gathered for the inaugural Saving Yellowstone Conservation Summit.

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Sarah Nalley, a PhD student in CU Denver’s Integrative Biology program, studies how wildfires impact dragonflies.

Dragonflies Survived Asteroids—But Wildfires and Climate Change May Push Them to Extinction According to CU Denver Study

Sept. 10, 2025

A new study led by University of Colorado Denver has uncovered how climate change and intensifying wildfires are disrupting dragonfly mating traits—threatening to push some species toward local extinction.

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Doctoral Student Fayelynn Scheideman Featured in Museum of Natural History Tour

Aug. 8, 2025

Integrative Biology Doctoral Student Fayelynn Scheideman's research on bison conservation was recently including in tours given at the Museum of Natural History, where tour guides explain, "Conservation has brought [bison] numbers back to close to half a million, in many small herds on a variety of preserves, commercial ranches and...

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