Integrative Biology

CU Denver Prof. Diana Tomback explores why 25% to 35% of Wyoming’s forests are now dominated by “ghost forests” — standing dead timber from beetle epidemics and disease.

The funding will help expand the successful College of Liberal Arts and Sciences program within the College of Engineering, Design and Computing. Abigail Hollmann was headed for a career in health care when she first came to CU Denver—but she was dreading the physics classes she’d have to take as...

Denver Scholarship Foundation celebrated its 2025 Annual Homecoming Gala. The event honored and celebrate the economic impact and accomplishments of Denver Public Schools high school students, DSF scholars and alumni. The Gala featured University of Colorado Denver graduate, Diego Burciaga. He shared his educational journey from North High School to...

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...

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.

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.

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.

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...

Dispatches from the Wild: Novel solutions to save the federally protected whitebark pine

Dr. Michelle DePrenger-Levin, a CU Denver Integrative Biology PhD graduate and Manager of Conservation Programs at Denver Botanic Gardens, joined the In Defense of Plants podcast to share how her team is transforming plant conservation through drone technology. In Episode 521, she discusses the challenges of monitoring rare plant populations...