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…
Dear Colleagues, It is my great pleasure to offer congratulations to Developmental and Cell Biology Professor Aimee Edinger on being named the UC Irvine Dr. De Gallow Professor of the Year. This prestigious honor was bestowed…
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…
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary BiologySpring Quarter Seminar SeriesApr. 30:Dr. Nandita Garud, Assistant Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, UCLA”Adaptation in natural populations: Lessons from Drosophila melanogaster and the human gut microbiome”Host: Graduate StudentsMay…
Dear colleagues,
On behalf of Chancellor Gillman, we are pleased to announce that Adriana Darielle Mejía Briscoe, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, has been awarded a 2021 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship. Appointed on…