Integrative Biology

A forest can look healthy from a distance and still be in trouble up close. That’s the concern driving a recent conversation in northern New Mexico about the southwestern white pine, a native tree found in the Santa Fe National Forest and across parts of the Southwest.

Dr. Michael Moore, Associate Professor in the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of Colorado Denver's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, has been named the 2026 recipient of the George A. Bartholomew Award by the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology. This national honor recognizes Dr. Moore's career-spanning...

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...