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Today, on The University Record, EEB Professor and Associate Chair for Graduate Studies, Marjorie Weber, was featured in the "In The News Section" :
“For a plant that can’t move, being able to create a home for the ants so that they give services is such an incredibly cool innovation. It’s like using this amazing built-in army,” said Marjorie Weber, associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, about plants called epiphytes that grow on trees and have a unique internal structure that allows rival ant colonies to coexist within the plants themselves.