Newsletters

Fall 2021, (Download PDF)

• Pivot! Pivot! Unexpected challenges, lessons learned and where we (think we) are now
• Chair's column
• Faculty feature: Sanders seeks to unravel causes and consequences of biodiversity
• Faculty feature: Classen Lab focuses on climate and global change
• Millions of EEB Museum specimens digitized for worldwide online access
• EEB Photographer at Large Contest 2020 
  

Fall 2020, (Download PDF)

• The many facets of COVID-19 research in EEB
  
• Chair's note
  
• New faculty feature: Monarch migration mysteries under the microscope, André Green
  
• Grad student feature: Elusive bats hold clues to aid conservation efforts, Giorgia Auteri
  
• Changing of the chairs: Wittkopp assumes leadership role
  
• Alum profile: Zemenick seeks to make biology more inclusive, Ash Zemenick
  
• EEB Photographer at Large Contest 2019
  

Fall 2019, (Download PDF)

• EEB photo for the ages
  
• An eye toward conservation of natural communities in diverse ecosystems, María Natalia Umaña
  
• Pioneering research: studying life in silico and in vivo, Luis Zaman
• A fascination with neotropical fish diversity, evolutionary history and conservation, Hernán López-Fernández
  
• Photo contest highlights 2018
  

Fall 2018, (Download PDF)

• Biological Sciences Building brings EEB into 21st century
  
• Chair's note
• BSB and Museum of Natural History dedication
• Photo Contest highlights 2017
  

• Our grads rock! | Hill named NCAA Elite 90 Award Winner for women's cross country

• Research feature | Snake dietary diversity exploded after mass extinction 66 million years ago
  
  
• High honor: Wittkopp named AAAS Fellow for contributions to evolutionary genetics
  

• Alumni News | Moody's teaching and research in natural history and zoology honored

• Early Career Scientists Symposium: Racial Justice and Anti-racist Research in EEB begins March 19
  

• Support EEB undergraduate research and EEB Museums on Giving Blueday March 16
  
  
• Tucker, groundbreaking researcher of house mice hybrid zones, retires

• Science Fun Fact | Is dirt "alive?"

• Our grads rock: A LOUD "GO BLUE" HAIL! Our 2020-2021 graduate student award celebration

• Research feature | Snails carrying the world's smallest computer help solve mass extinction survivor mystery

• BioBlitz Committee wins inaugural EEB JEDI Award

• Alumni News | West-Eberhard awarded 2021 Linnean Medal for Zoology

• Fall 2021 seminar schedule is forthcoming

• New Biosciences Initiative award recognizes mid-career excellence 

• Science Fun Fact | The invisible roles of color

May 2021

• Our grads rock! EEB grads score three coveted NSF Graduate Research Fellowships
  

• Research feature | Biodiversity protects bee communities from disease, U-M study concludes
  

• New crowdsourced project to digitize Michigan lake and fish records, looking for climate trends
  

• Alumni news | Alums' international collaboration discovers new floral bacteria, and honors late Professor Emerita Beverly Rathcke
  

• First virtual Early Career Scientists Symposium attracts broad worldwide audience
  

• U-M biologist eager for arrival of Brood X cicadas, the sixth emergence of these noisy 17-year bugs in his lifetime
  

• Science fun fact | What we eat plays a huge role in climate change

February 2021

• Our GREEBs volunteers rock!

• Research feature: Museum scientistis: prepare for the next pandemic now by preserving animal specimens in natural history collections

• Mark Hunter, celebrated ecologist and inspiring teacher, retires
  

• Knute Nadelhoffer, legendary ecosystem ecologist and passionate environemental advocate, retires
  

• Alumni news | Honors undergrad alum Lima finds her passion in urban ecology
  

• What's up in EEBVIRTUAL Early Career Scientists Symposium 2021 | Natural History Collections: Drivers of Innovation
  

• Giving Blueday March 10
  

• Science fun fact: Match that sperm!
  

August 2020

• Our grads rock: EEB volunteers at Feria de Ciencias

• Research feature: Tiny brains, big surprise: eavesdropping wasps gain insights about fighting abilities of potential rivals

• Ecologists across the country say academy must root out racism, recognize Black scholar excellence

• Alumni news: Russell investigates wildlife disease that's decimating amphibians

• Changing of the EEB chairs: Wittkopp assumes leadership role

• EEB fall seminars go virtual

• Fall preview event

• Science fun fact: So many dewlaps, so little time