Inside This Years Dean’s Report:
Tipping Points is a call to action to the perilous and impending loss of biodiversity on the planet caused by human activity. As scientists and citizens of Earth, it is our…
Woke Black Folk is a stage play on the complexities of Black political identity and a story about how humans navigate difference. This project has been met with critical acclaim by thinkers and artists such…
Born from a need to give graduate students a broad skill set and more career-oriented training, UC Irvine’s Ridge to Reef Program (R2R) has been a major success. R2R, funded by a $3 million grant…
In recognition of her groundbreaking work on butterfly color and vision, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology professor Adriana Briscoe was recently awarded a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship. As a pioneer in animal physiology and behavior, Dr. Briscoe’s…
As climate change continues to affect our world, a team of researchers brought together by UC Irvine professor Cascade Sorte is making a positive difference through collaboration and les châteaux de la France. Dr. Cascade…
Environmental sustainability and community engagement are some of the main reasons that I came to UCI. The beautiful campus, commitment to the environment, and dorm compost bins only added to that. Yet, I was not…
Snakes and Acclaim: Lauren Merlino Wins NSF Fellowship
Spring is in the air. Lauren Merlino, a current Ph.D. student working in the Lutterschmidt lab, peers into a writhing mass of snakes, their sex hormones raging. Merlino’s…
Edwin Solares, who is currently finishing his Ph.D. In Comparative Genomics and Evolutionary Biology, has recently been awarded the prestigious UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship. He is only the second person to receive this award as…
Congratulations to EEB graduate student Newton Hood who was awarded the African American Scholarship from the Aquarium of the Pacific!…