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Professor Brad Shaffer's latest co-authored Publication in SCIENCE Continues to Trend on Multiple News Avenues

Professor Brad Shaffer's latest co-authored Publication in SCIENCE with previous postdoctoral scholar, Peter Scott, continues to trend on multiple news avenues:
KPCC November 27, KPCC November 30th, KFI online, My News LA, Telemundo, UCLA IoES, and Eurekalert.

December 5, 2024
Professor Lawren Sack named among the world’s most influential researchers
November 1, 2024
Congratulations to Elvira D'Bastiani from the Pinter-Wollman for receiving an Honorable Mention Award
November 1, 2024
Professor Dan Blumstein on Halloween and the sound of fear
July 26, 2024
Recent Publication by Professor James Lloyd-Smith and Master's Student, Elizabeth Blackmore is featured in several news outlets
July 1, 2024
Professor Elsa Ordway awarded a 2024-25 UCLA Society of Hellman Fellows Award
June 21, 2024
EEB/IoES Distinguished Research Professor, Thomas Smith, and EEB/IoES Professors, Elsa Ordway and Felipe Zapata's work with UCLA Congo Basin Institute is featured in the UCLA Newsroom
June 3, 2024
EEB research team, led by Joey Curti and Morgan Tingley, publish study evaluating what species tolerate and which do not, Los Angeles’s urban environment.
May 31, 2024
Professor Peter Nonacs Honored with a UCLA URC Faculty Mentor Award 2024
May 17, 2024
Blumstein Lab's Team Marmot featured on Rocky Mountain PBS
May 2, 2024
EEB Distinguished Research Professor, Tom Smith, elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
April 29, 2024
EEB graduate student, Ary Amaya's work on Indigenous-led reforestation in LA gets spotlight in UCLA Newsroom
March 15, 2024
EEB Professor, Morgan Tingley, featured in a recent article by the National Audubon Society
February 14, 2024
Recent Publication by Postdoctoral Fellow, Monte Neate-Clegg and Professor Morgan Tingley is Featured in the UCLA Newsroom
February 14, 2024
EEB Professor Dan Blumstein Publishes Article in Opinion section of msnbc.com
January 12, 2024
Recent Study Published in late 2023 by Professor Dan Blumstein is featured in the UCLA Newsroom
January 10, 2024
A 2018 publication by Professor Pamela Yeh is featured in a recent Nature article
January 5, 2024
Recent co-authored publication by Distinguished Research Professor, Thomas Smith, is featured in the UCLA Newsroom
December 5, 2023
EEB Ph.D. Candidate, Ashlyn Ford, named a Taylor M. Brown Memorial Award Recipient
December 1, 2023
EEB PhD student Chris Sayers' study is featured on the UCLA Newsroom
November 27, 2023
Professor Noa Pinter-Wollman was a guest on KCRW's "Greater LA" show
November 27, 2023
Professor Daniel Blumstein's paper is awarded the Elsevier Atlas award for the World Animal Protection Day
November 21, 2023
Professor Lawren Sack named among the world’s most influential researchers in the sciences and social sciences
November 21, 2023
Professor Dan Blumstein provides Insight on CalTrans' World's Largest Wildlife Crossing
November 2, 2023
EEB PhD student Chris Sayers leads study on how tropical gold mining leads to mercury accumulation in birds
October 31, 2023
Professor Lawren Sack provides insight on new research for Science News
October 26, 2023
Distinguished Professor Peter Narins is awarded the 2023 Northwestern's Hugh Knowles Prize for Distinguished Achievement
October 23, 2023
Former EEB PhD Students and Professors Bob Wayne and Kirk Lohmueller's recent publication featured in the UCLA Newsroom
October 20, 2023
Former EEB Postdoctoral Fellow and First Author, Jennifer Smith, and co-authors, EEB Professor Michael Alfaro and EEB Adjunct Professor Barbara Natterson-Horowitz's recent publication is featured in the UCLA Newsroom
October 16, 2023
La Kretz Postdoc Olivia Sanderfoot and EEB Professor Morgan Tingley Quoted by the NY Times
October 10, 2023
EEB Postdoc, Robert Fofrich, of the Ordway lab recently named an IDRE Postdoctoral Fellowship
October 2, 2023
Professors Blaire Van Valkenburgh, Brad Shaffer, and Peter Narins Recently Inducted into the American Academy of Arts & Sciences
September 28, 2023
Recent Publication by EEB Postdoc Camila Medeiros, Professor Lawren Sack and team, "Predicting plant species climate niches on the basis of mechanistic traits" featured in UCLA newsroom and other News Outlets
September 21, 2023
EEB PhD Student, Joanna Wu, interviewed for New York Times on "Why ‘the most misunderstood birds in North America’ are female"
September 11, 2023
Recent Publication in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B is reported by Spectrum News 1
September 8, 2023
EEB Graduate Student, Sean O'Fallon, lead author, and EEB Professor, Noa Pinter-Wollman's recent publication is featured in the UCLA Newsroom
August 25, 2023
Recent publication, with EEB Ph.D. Eleanor Diamant as lead author, and EEB professors, Dan Blumstein and Pamela Yeh as co-authors, is featured in the UCLA Newsroom
August 22, 2023
Project Phoenix, a joint project from UCLA and the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Directed by Olivia Sanderfoot of the Tingley Lab, Continues to Trend through Multiple News Outlets
August 18, 2023
The Congo Basin Institute (CBI) collaborates with ESRI
August 16, 2023
EEB PhD student Joanna Wu interviewed by Smithsonian Magazine for article on female birds.
July 25, 2023
EEB PhD Student, Benjamin Hà, and EEB faculty members, Paul Barber and Rachel Kennison, are featured in the UCLA Newsroom for recent publication
July 21, 2023
Professor Elsa Ordway named co-director of the Center for Tropical Research and the Congo Basin Institute
July 21, 2023
Project Phoenix, a joint project from UCLA and the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, launches with Project Director, Olivia Sanderfoot of the Tingley Lab
July 7, 2023
EEB Professor, Morgan Tingley and former EEB Postdoc, Casey Youngflesh are featured in the UCLA Newsroom for recent study publication
June 30, 2023
EEB Professor, Elsa Ordway, noted as a speaker at the Governors' Climate and Forests Task Force's (GCF Task Force) recent workshop at UCLA
June 30, 2023
Previous EEB Ph.D., Zack Gold and biology major graduate, Mckenzie Koch, lead co-authors, along with EEB Professor, Paul Barber's recent publication is featured in the UCLA Newsroom
June 28, 2023
Emeritus Professor Blaire Van Valkenburgh Quoted in the New York Times, "A Bear That Looked Like a Raccoon and Had a Dangerous Appetite"
June 22, 2023
Professor Lawren Sack quoted in the Wall Street Journal, "Supercharging Nature to Suck Carbon From the Air"
June 22, 2023
Postdoc in Tingley Lab, Olivia Sanderfoot, featured in the Ottawa-Citizen, Popular Science, and National Geographic with Professor Morgan Tingley
June 9, 2023
Recent publication by EEB PhD Student, Benjamin Hà, and EEB Faculty, Paul Barber and Rachel Kennison, on interdisciplinary approaches to advancing anti-racist teaching strategies in EEB
June 8, 2023
EEB Professor Dan Blumstein and colleagues paper in Trends in Ecology and Evolution are highlighted in an LA Times Opinion piece and The Conversation
June 8, 2023
Olivia Sanderfoot, La Kretz Center Postdoc in the Tingley lab, interviewed by TIME, "How Wildfire Smoke Affects Wildlife—and Your Pets"
May 26, 2023
Professor Tom Smith's recent co-authored publication is featured in the UCLA Newsroom
May 26, 2023
EEB PhD Student, Hayden Speck, Featured in the UCLA Newsroom, "Disney mermaids aren’t the only wondrous creatures ‘under the sea’"
May 24, 2023
Professor Lawren Sack Quoted in the Los Angeles Times
May 19, 2023
EEB Postdoc, Chris Kyriazis and EEB Professor, Elsa Ordway receive 2023 Life Science Excellence Awards
May 19, 2023
EEB Postdoc, Monte Neate-Clegg (lead author) and EEB Professor, Morgan Tingley's June 2023 publication is featured in the UCLA Newsroom
May 12, 2023
EEB Alumnus, Nathan Mallipeddi, receives a Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship
April 20, 2023
New article in Daily Bruin about the Field Biology Quarter
April 7, 2023
EEB Professors and Previous EEB Ph.D. Students Contribute to Remembrance Piece in honor of Distinguished Professor, Robert K. Wayne
April 7, 2023
EEB Adjunct Professor, Jon Keeley, Ranked in the 2023 Edition of Research.com's Best Scientists in the field of Ecology and Evolution
March 23, 2023
Current and recent EEB graduate students Tina Del Carpio, Ashlyn Ford, Eva Horna Lowell, Marissa Ochoa, and Hayden Speck published an article in Nature Ecology and Evolution
March 17, 2023
EEB PhD student in the Sack and Ordway Labs, Nidhi Vinod, wins a Corliss Knapp Engle Scholarship from the Garden Club of America
March 10, 2023
EEB Adjunct Professor, Barbara Natterson-Horowitz to lead National Academies Board
March 3, 2023
Professors Dan Blumstein and Barbara Natterson-Horowitz's recent publication featured in the UCLA Newsroom
February 17, 2023
EEB Professor, Nandita Garud receives CAREER Award from National Science Foundation
February 10, 2023
Professors Emeriti, Ken Nagy and Blaire Van Valkenburgh, named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
February 10, 2023
A recent publication from the Jacobs lab, led by recent PhD Rachel Turba, treating the conservation genomics of endangered stickleback in Southern California is featured in the UCLA Newsroom
February 3, 2023
EEB Professor Dan Blumstein Quoted on NPR on the the tradition of Groundhog Day in the U.S.
February 3, 2023
EEB Ph.D. candidate Christina Del Carpio named as one of Inaugural UCLA EDI Student Leadership Awardees
January 27, 2023
Previous EEB Ph.D. Student, Zachary Gold interviewed on KPCC FM in regards to research recently published in PeerJ
January 27, 2023
UCLA Newsroom: "In memoriam: Robert Wayne, 66, pioneer of conservation genetics, protecting canids and other species"
January 14, 2023
In Memoriam: Distinguished Professor, Bob Wayne
January 13, 2023
Recent publication from the Tingley lab is featured in the UCLA Newsroom
January 13, 2023
Previous EEB PhD Scholars and EEB Professors' recent publication in PeerJ is featured in UCLA Newsroom
January 6, 2023
Recent publication by Professor Dan Blumstein and colleagues is featured on Several News Outlets
January 6, 2023
Recent publication by Professor Dan Blumstein and colleagues is featured in the UCLA Newsroom
December 9, 2022
Recent publication out of the Pinter-Wollman lab featured in the UCLA Newsroom
December 5, 2022
The Congo Basin Institute Documentary, 'Smallholder's voice', wins two awards for best documentary at the WILDsound Festival
November 30, 2022
Recent published paper by Professors Grether and Shier, as well as previous FBQ students, is featured in the UCLA Newsroom
November 16, 2022
UCLA EEB Professors, Nathan Kraft and Lawren Sack, are named among the most highly cited researchers in 2022
November 9, 2022
Congo Basin Institute is leading the Sustainable Cocoa Coalition in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
November 3, 2022
EEB Doctoral candidate Mary Van Dyke has published a thesis chapter with Prof. Nathan Kraft in Nature
October 28, 2022
Professor Elsa Ordway and her recent publication is featured in the UCLA Newsroom, "Understanding what makes rainforests distinct from one another could advance conservation efforts"
October 28, 2022
Former Rundel lab PostDoc, Karen Esler, recently named a member of the Academy of Science of South Africa and fellow of the Royal Society of South Africa
October 28, 2022
Professor Morgan Tingley and postdoc Casey Youngflesh featured in the UCLA Newsroom for their recent publication in Nature Ecology and Evolution
October 21, 2022
Professor Dan Blumstein Co-Authors Publication Featured in UCLA Newsroom, "Wildfires drive L.A.’s mountain lions to take deadly risks"
October 21, 2022
EEB Professor Elsa Ordway Awarded a NASA JPL Strategic University Research Partnership Grant
September 30, 2022
EEB Graduate Student, Kelsi Rutledge, Featured in the UCLA Newsroom, "How a UCLA fish scientist helped the alien in Jordan Peele’s ‘Nope’ seem terrifyingly real"
September 23, 2022
EEB graduate student, Marissa Ochoa, awarded Best Student Poster at this year's Botany 2022 Conference
September 23, 2022
Professor of EEB, Dr. Robert Wayne, and Former Ph.D. student, Dr. Daniel Chavez featured in the UCLA Newsroom
September 16, 2022
The California Conservation Genomics Project (CCGP) led by UCLA's EEB Distinguished Professor, Brad Shaffer, mentioned in NY Times piece
September 16, 2022
UCLA EEB's Emeritus Professor, Stephen Hubbell, quoted in the Scientist
August 25, 2022
EEB Distinguished Professor and Director of the UCLA La Kretz Center for California Conservation Science, Brad Shaffer, quoted in the LA Times
August 19, 2022
EEB Professor Dan Blumstein Featured on MSN, "City Tells New Yorkers: Don't Panic About 'Splooting' Squirrels"
August 18, 2022
EEB graduate student, Kelsi Rutledge featured on Nerdist for her recent science consultation on the movie, "Nope"
August 16, 2022
EEB Professor Elsa Ordway awarded a 2022-2023 Faculty Career Development Award
August 16, 2022
EEB Professor Morgan Tingley featured in the NY Times
July 15, 2022
The Wayne Lab Recently published on Exploring Microbial Communities at a Los Angeles Brownfield Near the Los Angeles River in Microbial Ecology Journal
July 15, 2022
Professor Brad Shaffer's work for the California Conservation Genomics Project (CCGP) Featured in UCSC news
July 7, 2022
Professor Victoria Sork Highlighted in the Spring 2022 Bulletin of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences
July 7, 2022
Co-Mentored Postdoc, Robert Fofrich, Awarded to the 2022-2023 UC Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
July 1, 2022
EEB Adjunct Professor, Seth Riley, and EEB Graduate Student, Audra Huffmeyer, featured in the AP News, "Big Cats in Urban Jungle: LA Mountain Lions, Mumbai Leopards"
July 1, 2022
EEB Graduate Student, Brandon Chan Selected for AGU's 2022 Voices of Science Program
June 22, 2022
Professor James Lloyd-Smith Quoted on The Atlantic in regards to the recent Monkeypox Outbreak
May 31, 2022
Professor James Lloyd-Smith Quoted in the Los Angeles Times in regards to Monkeypox
May 27, 2022
Congratulations to Ben Tonelli for NASA FINESST Fellowship
May 27, 2022
Several EEB Departmental Members Awarded 2022 Life Sciences Excellence Awards
May 27, 2022
EEB Adjunct Professor, Gary Bucciarelli, Quoted in Article on Recently Published Skydiving Salamander Study
May 24, 2022
Professor James Lloyd-Smith Interviewed in regards to the current Monkeypox global spread
May 20, 2022
Distinguished Professor Thomas Smith receives one of six UCLA Public Impact Research Awards
May 19, 2022
Christian Henry of the Sack Lab Receives a UC President's Postdoctoral Fellowship for 2022-2023
May 10, 2022
EEB Professors Kirk Lohmueller, Robert Wayne, Current EEB Graduate Student Christopher Kyriazis, and Former Wayne Lab Student, Dr. Jacqueline Robinson's Recent Publication Continues to Trend on Multiple News Outlets
May 5, 2022
UCLA EEB Professors Kirk Lohmueller & Robert Wayne, Current EEB Graduate Student Christopher Kyriazis, and Former Wayne Lab Student, Dr. Jacqueline Robinson are Featured Across Multiple News Outlets for their Research that was Recently Published in Science
May 3, 2022
Professors Blaire Van Valkenburgh, Peter Narins, and Brad Shaffer are elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
April 15, 2022
EEB Graduate Students, Austin Betancourt and Xochitl Ortiz Ross, are awarded National Science Foundation Graduate Student Research Fellowships
March 16, 2022
Species named after EEB Professor Blaire Van Valkenburgh
March 16, 2022
EEB Graduate Student Kelsi Rutledge Wins 1st Place at the 2022 UCLA Grad Slam Finals
March 10, 2022
The Recent Nature Ecology and Evolutionary Publication Authored by EEB's own, Gabriela Pinho, Dan Blumstein, and Robert Wayne is featured in Multiple News Outlets
March 8, 2022
"The secret to longevity? Ask a yellow-bellied marmot" featured in the UCLA Newsroom
March 7, 2022
Professor Brad Shaffer Quoted in The Mercury News for the California Conservation Genomics Project (CCGP)
March 1, 2022
In Disney’s attempt to authentically represent Colombia’s environment in their recent movie, Encanto, the studio enlisted UCLA EEB's own Professor Felipe Zapata
February 14, 2022
Professor Blaire Van Valkenburgh Featured in the UCLA Newsroom, "Notches on lions’ teeth reveal poaching in Zambia’s conservation areas"
February 2, 2022
Professor Dan Blumstein Quoted in the New York Times' Science Times Print Edition
January 28, 2022
Professor Dan Blumstein Quoted in the New York Times' Clued In Column
January 27, 2022
Announcing the La Kretz Center and Stunt Ranch Reserve 2022 conservation science research awards
January 27, 2022
The New York Times Wirecutter Blog Post Cites 2020 Study Professor James Lloyd-Smith was Involved in
January 26, 2022
Professor James Lloyd-Smith Quoted in the New York Times
January 11, 2022
Professors Michael Alfaro and Barbara Natterson-Horowitz co-author recent paper with previous ISG Postdoctoral Fellow, Jennifer Smith
January 7, 2022
EEB Postdoctoral Researcher, Audra Huffmeyer (lead author) and EEB Faculty, Robert Wayne's recent study featured in the UCLA Newsroom
December 10, 2021
EEB Professor Peter Nonacs, Ten EEB Graduate Students, and One Former EEB Undergraduate Student's recent paper was published as part of a research topic on Major Evolutionary Transitions in Frontiers Ecology and Evolution
December 8, 2021
Professors Pamela Yeh and Van Savage contribute to book about lessons from the pandemic
November 16, 2021
Professors Lawren Sack and Nathan Kraft are Named Amongst the World’s Most Influential Researchers
November 12, 2021
Professor Priyanga Amarasekare elected to the Ecological Society of America's Diversity Committee
November 4, 2021
UCLA’s Congo Basin Institute receives $1 million from Bob and Cindy Taylor
October 25, 2021
Professor Felipe Zapata's Recent Co-Authored Publication in PNAS is featured in Science News
October 6, 2021
Professor Felipe Zapata Highlighted for his Recent Co-Authored Publication in PNAS
September 20, 2021
Professor Dan Blumstein's recent Animal Behavior Society’s 2021 Richard Buchholz Conservation Behavior Award is featured in the UCLA Newsroom
September 10, 2021
EEB Ph.D. Candidate, Tina Del Carpio, named a 2021 Taylor M. Brown Award Recipient
September 9, 2021
Distinguished Research Professor Blaire Van Valkenburgh's 2021 recipient of the Romer-Simpson Medal from the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology is featured in the UCLA Newsroom
August 31, 2021
Distinguished Research Professor Peter Narins' Silver Medal in Animal Bioacoustics from the Acoustical Society of America is featured in the UCLA Newsroom.
August 23, 2021
EEB Professor, Nandita Garud, recognized for her research on gut microbiome
August 16, 2021
Rising EEB 2nd-year PhD student Ben Tonelli was awarded an AOS Council Award at the 2021 American Ornithological Society Conference
August 16, 2021
Distinguished Research Professor Blaire Van Valkenburgh is the 2021 recipient of the Romer-Simpson Medal from the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, for Lifetime achievement in the field of vertebrate paleontology
August 16, 2021
Distinguished Research Professor Peter Narins Receives the Silver Medal in Animal Bioacoustics from the Acoustical Society of America
August 16, 2021
EEB PhD student, Watcharapong Hongjamrassilp, Receives an Honorable Mention in the Allee Best Student Talk Competition at the 2021 Animal Behavior Society Meeting
August 16, 2021
Professor Dan Blumstein Awarded the Animal Behavior Society’s 2021 Richard Buchholz Conservation Behavior Award
August 1, 2021
Professor Pamela Yeh Name one of five professors to receive the 2021 Chancellor’s Award for Community-Engaged Research
July 9, 2021
Scientists create genetic library for mega-ecosystem in Pacific Ocean
July 6, 2021
The Crested Butte News reports on a "very social" marmot that makes her way to Arizona and back home to Gothic, Colorado
July 1, 2021
Professor Nandita Garud Named a 2021-2022 Hellman Fellow
July 1, 2021
Professor Nandita Garud Receives One of Six Awards from the Inaugural Year of Scialog: Microbiome, Neurobiology and Disease
June 24, 2021
UCLA Congo Basin Institute receives community engagement award
June 9, 2021
EEB Graduate Student, Benjamin Hà, Receives 2021 Life Sciences Excellence Award, Inclusive Excellence Award for Efforts to Promote Diversity
June 9, 2021
Professor Alison Lipman Awarded the 2021 Division of Life Sciences Excellence in Education Innovation Award
June 9, 2021
Professor Paul Barber's Class of Undergraduates Publish Paper About Remote Learning Disparities
June 4, 2021
EEB Graduate Student, Fernando Postigo, Receives Best Poster Award at the Southern California Society of Parasitlogists Annual Meeting
April 29, 2021
Professor Morgan Tingley and Postdoc Casey Youngflesh's Recent Nature Publication is Featured in the UCLA Newsroom
April 26, 2021
Several Department Graduate Students receive 2021 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program Awards and Honorable Mentions
April 22, 2021
Professor Victoria Sork Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
April 2, 2021
Professor Brenda Larison Interviewed on The Current
March 25, 2021
New publication in Nature by PhD student Alec Baird and Professor Lawren Sack provides insights to improve grass crop design and more accurately model the effects of climate change
March 18, 2021
Professor Dan Blumstein's Recent co-authored publication continues to gain notoriety in other news avenues
March 17, 2021
EEB PhD Student, Gabriella Pinho, from the Blumstein and Wayne labs, featured on The New Scientist
February 26, 2021
Recent EEB Ph.D. student, Dan Cooper, of the Yeh/Blumstein labs featured on Alta
February 11, 2021
Professor Brad Shaffer Featured in the UCLA Newsroom in Regards to Research Recently Published in PNAS
February 10, 2021
Professor Nandita Garud Featured in the UCLA Newsroom
February 8, 2021
Professor Lawren Sack Provides Professorial commentary on the Daily Bruin, "Wellness from Home: Students find solace in caring for plants to help overcome stresses of pandemic"
February 3, 2021
Professor Nandita Garud named a 2021 Allen Distinguished Investigator
January 26, 2021
Professor Tom Smith and Ph.D. student Kelly Barr are featured in a new National Geographic film on the Bird Genoscape Project
January 25, 2021
Professor Van Savage Interviewed on Radio New Zealand in regards to his recent co-authored study on sleep and brain research.
January 22, 2021
Professor Brenda Larison featured in National Geographic
January 13, 2021
Professors Blaire Van Valkenburgh and Robert Wayne, along with Postdoctoral Scholar, Alice Mouton's Recent Co-Authored Publication are Being Featured on Several News Avenues
January 13, 2021
Professor Dan Blumstein's' Recently Co-Authored Published Work Featured in Several News Avenues
December 18, 2020
Professor Van Savage's Co-Authored Publication Named one of UCLA's Top News Stories of 2020
December 7, 2020
EEB Ph.D. student, Watcharapong Hongjamrassilp from the Blumstein lab featured in the Smithsonian Magazine
December 2, 2020
EEB Ph.D. student, Watcharapong Hongjamrassilp's research featured in National Geographic
December 1, 2020
Professor Brad Shaffer's latest co-authored Publication in SCIENCE Continues to Trend on Multiple News Avenues
November 30, 2020
Professor Brad Shaffer's latest co-authored Publication in SCIENCE is featured on several news outlets
November 24, 2020
Professor Karen Sears named a 2020 fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
November 24, 2020
Professors Lawren Sack and Nathan Kraft are Named one of the World’s Most Influential Researchers according to Clarivate
November 24, 2020
Professor Morgan Tingley's Recent Co-Authored SCIENCE Publication Featured in the UCLA Newsroom
November 18, 2020
EEB Ph.D. student, Watcharapong Hongjamrassilp's research featured in the New York Times
November 6, 2020
UCLA EEB professor Morgan Tingley and visiting graduate researcher Austin Spence were awarded the E4 Award 2020
October 26, 2020
Two EEB Graduate STEM Students Recognized for their Research and Presentation Skills at 2020 SACNAS – The National Diversity in STEM Conference
October 23, 2020
Undergraduate Student, Cyndi Frausto, Mentored by Professor Peter Nonacs, receives a 2020 UCNRS Field Science Fellowship
October 16, 2020
Professor Van Savages Joint Sleep Research Continues to gain traction in other news avenues
October 16, 2020
Professor Tom Smith moderates World War Zero biodiversity discussion
October 16, 2020
Congo Basin Institute (CBI) Receives Grant to build a CBI Distant Learning Center on the campus of IITA in Yaoundé
October 15, 2020
EEB PhD student of the Barber lab, Candice Cross Interviewed on her latest project on "Generation Genius"
October 9, 2020
Professor Paul Barber named a 2020 Academy Fellow by the California Academy of Sciences
October 6, 2020
EEB Graduate Student, Emily Ryznar, awarded a California Sea Grant 2021 Fellowship
September 30, 2020
Professor Thomas Smith Featured on World War Zero
September 29, 2020
EEB Graduate Student, Camila Medeiros, Awarded ESA's Best Student Poster in Physiological Ecology at the Annual ESA Meeting 2020
September 29, 2020
Professor Dan Blumstein and the “Tackling Prey Naivety Team” are a finalist for a 2020 Australian Museum Eureka Prize
September 21, 2020
Professor Van Savage's Recent Joint Publication Continues to Trend on several News Avenues
September 18, 2020
Professor Van Savage's Recent Publication featured in several News Avenues
September 18, 2020
Professor Van Savage featured in the UCLA Newsroom for Joint Publication in Regards to Sleep and Brain Research
September 10, 2020
Professor Tom Smith and the Congo Basin Institute field research station Published in the latest Travel Africa Magazine
September 2, 2020
Professor Tom Smith featured in the September UCLA DGSOM Global Health Program Newsletter
September 1, 2020
EEB Professor James Lloyd-Smith and Postdoctoral Researcher, Amandine Gamble Continue to Gain Acclaim in Several News Avenues for Their Recent Study
August 28, 2020
EEB Professor James Lloyd-Smith and Postdoctoral Researcher, Amandine Gamble Featured in the UCLA Newsroom
August 28, 2020
EEB Professor James Lloyd-Smith and Postdoctoral Researcher, Amandine Gamble Featured in Several News Avenues for Their Study Showing N95 Respirators can be Decontaminated and Re-used
August 27, 2020
EEB Graduate Student, Nicholas Russo, awarded a Fulbright-Hays Program fellowship
August 27, 2020
EEB Professor James Lloyd-Smith and Postdoctoral Researcher, Amandine Gamble Featured in the UCLA Newsroom
August 26, 2020
EEB Graduate Student, Emily Ryznar, Awarded ESA's Best Student Talk in Aquatic Ecology at the Annual ESA Meeting 2020
August 21, 2020
Professor Paul Barber and Previous EEB PhD student, Zack Gold Featured in the UCLA Newsroom
August 19, 2020
Professor James Lloyd-Smith Featured in Smithsonian Magazine
July 20, 2020
Professor Paul Barber featured in the UCLA Newsroom
July 6, 2020
EEB PhD student Graham Montgomery was awarded a Louis Agassiz Fuertes Grant from the Wilson Ornithological Society
July 2, 2020
EEB MS Graduate Student, Shawn Schwartz's, is UCLA's Institute for Digital Research & Education Early Career Research Day Winner
July 2, 2020
EEB PhD Student, Ioana Anghel, Receives Several Research Awards
July 1, 2020
Professor James Lloyd-Smith Featured on KCRW
June 30, 2020
Professor James Lloyd-Smith Quoted in NY Times
June 25, 2020
Professor Thomas B. Smith featured in the UCLA Magazine
June 24, 2020
Professor Thomas Smith featured Op-Ed in World War Zero Webpage
June 24, 2020
Professor Paul Barber in The Keene Sentinel
June 19, 2020
Professor James Lloyd-Smith Featured in Wall Street Journal
June 15, 2020
Congratulations to Professors Shane Campbell-Staton, Noa Pinter-Wollman, Tonya Kane, and Ph.D. candidates, Kelsi Rutledge and Amanda Robin
June 9, 2020
EEB Student, Fabiola Torres-Toledo featured in Hispanic Access Foundation (HAF)
June 5, 2020
More than 300 UCLA scientists condemn acts of racist violence
May 15, 2020
Professor Daniel Blumstein's long-term marmot field project featured on NPR’s science show The Pulse
May 12, 2020
Professor James Lloyd-Smith Cited in a Recent Wired.com Article Regarding Covid-19
May 5, 2020
Professor Victoria Sork awarded the Molecular Ecology Prize 2020
April 23, 2020
Professor Tom Smith receives the Elliot Coues Award from the American Ornithological Society
April 17, 2020
EEB Graduate Student, Kelsi Rutledge, Receives a Fellowship from Department of Defense National Science and Engineering Graduate Student Fellowship (NDSEG) program
April 17, 2020
EEB PhD student, Gaurav Kandlikar awarded the Murray Buell Award
April 1, 2020
Congratulations to our Dept of EEB graduate students recognized by the NSF-GRFP program
March 23, 2020
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March 20, 2020
Professor James Lloyd-Smith featured in UCLA Newsroom
March 18, 2020
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March 16, 2020
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February 24, 2020
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February 24, 2020
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February 20, 2020
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February 14, 2020
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February 14, 2020
Professor Park Nobel Publishes Fifth Edition of his 50-year Plant Physiology Series
February 14, 2020
Professor Barbara Natterson-Horowitz featured in the UCLA Newsroom
February 12, 2020
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February 10, 2020
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February 7, 2020
Professor James Lloyd-Smith and Previous EEB doctoral student, Katelyn Gostic featured in Several News Avenues
February 4, 2020
Professor James Lloyd-Smith and Previous EEB doctoral student, Katelyn Gostic featured in UCLA Newsroom
January 31, 2020
EEB Graduate Student, Kelsi Rutledge awarded the UCLA Faculty Women's Club 2019-2020 Graduate Scholarship
January 30, 2020
Several EEB Graduate Students & Post-doctoral Scholars Awarded 2020 La Kretz Center & Stunt Ranch Reserve Conservation Science Research Grants
January 28, 2020
Society for the Study of Evolution's New Faculty Profile, Felipe Zapata
December 6, 2019
Co-Authored Study by Professor Victoria Sork Featured on BBC News
December 2, 2019
Professor Barbara Natterson-Horowitz studies animals to make better sense of humans.
December 2, 2019
New research led by UCLA evolutionary biologist Victoria Sork examines whether the trees being replanted in the wake of California’s fires will be able to survive a climate that is continuing to warm.
November 25, 2019
Professor Brad Shaffer leads $10M State-funded California Conservation Genomic Project
November 20, 2019
Professor Lawren Sack Named one of 2019's World's Most Influential Scientific Researchers
October 29, 2019
Professor Greg Grether honored at the Andrea L. Rich Night to Honor Teaching Award Ceremony
October 29, 2019
Professor Kirk Lohmueller Interviewed on Good Morning America
September 26, 2019
Professor Blaire Van Valkenburgh and her eLife research has been featured in several news outlets
September 24, 2019
Professor Blaire Van Valkenburgh Featured in the UCLA Newsroom
September 16, 2019
EEB Graduate Student, Kelsi Rutledge featured in Forbes and Smithsonian Magazine
September 16, 2019
Professor Peter Nonacs Featured in a podcast discussion on Podtail

September 5, 2019
Professor Dan Blumstein featured on NPR
August 16, 2019
UCLA Congo Basin Institute receives $1 million from Pritzker Family Foundation
July 9, 2019
EEB Graduate Students, Aji Anggoro and Benjamin Ha receive UCLA Fellowships
June 24, 2019
Postdoctoral Fellow Deborah Bird featured on "The Science Times"
June 24, 2019
Professor Paul Barber, Doctoral Candidate Zack Gold , and Postdoctoral Researcher Emily Curd Featured in UCLA Newsroom
June 24, 2019
Professor Bob Wayne and Graduate Student, Annabel Beichman featured in UCLA Newsroom
June 18, 2019
Professor Tom Smith and the Ebony Project featured in National Geographic
June 12, 2019
Watcharapong Hongjamrassilp (WiN) from the Blumsteins lab Receives Several poster presentation awards
June 11, 2019
Professor Paul Barber Awarded the UCLA Gold Shield Faculty Prize 2019
June 7, 2019
Max D. Murray (Buth lab) has received a 1st Place Award for his poster presentation at the recent annual meeting of the Southern California Society of Parasitologists (SCSP)
June 5, 2019
Professors Shane Campbell-Staton and Nathan Kraft are awarded 2018-2019 Life Sciences Excellence Awards
June 5, 2019
Professor Greg Grether receives 2019 UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award-Undergraduate Mentorship Award
May 24, 2019
Congratulations Several EEB graduate students for their 2019 NSF GRFP awards and honorable mentions
May 14, 2019
Professor Tom Smith featured on Forbes.com
May 13, 2019
Tom Smith on CBS Morning News: UN Biodiversity Report
May 1, 2019
First-Year PhD student, Kelsi Rutledge, advised by Drs. Don Buth and Malcolm Gordon, has a recent article published in the Journal of Morphology
April 29, 2019
Professor Peter Kareiva featured in the UCLA Newsroom
April 24, 2019
Professor Shane Campbell-Staton featured in the UCLA Daily Bruin
April 15, 2019
Professor Noa Pinter-Wollman interview with Robyn Williams featured on Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Science Show
March 20, 2019
Dr. Peter Narins wins national merit award for his research
March 6, 2019
Dr. Leryn Gorlitsky receives a Unit 18 Professional Development award for 2018-19
March 5, 2019
Professor Shane Campbell-Staton featured in the UCLA Newsroom
December 19, 2018
Professors Pamela Yeh and Van Savage, as well as Postdoctoral Researcher, Elif Tekin's remarkable NSF- and NIH/NCATS-funded npj Systems Biology and Applications antibiotics research was UCLA's #4 Top Story of 2018
November 30, 2018
EEB Postdoctorate student, Evan McCartney-Melstad, featured in a Q&A in Knowable Magazine
November 28, 2018
Professor Tom Smith Featured in UCLA newsroom
November 28, 2018
Professors Hubbell, Kareiva, Kraft, and Sack are named one of 40 UCLA Scholars that are one of the most highly cited researchers according to Clarivate Analytics
November 15, 2018
UCLA EEB's Undergraduate Program named one of CollegeMagazine.com's top ten schools for Marine Biology
November 9, 2018
Professor Paul Barber's Collaborative Work on Seafood Fraud Featured in Several News Avenues
November 8, 2018
Professor Paul Barber featured in the UCLA Newsroom
October 23, 2018
Professor Blaire Van Valkenburgh awarded the Prestigious Joseph T. Gregory Award
October 22, 2018
Professor Noa Pinter-Wollman featured on Science Friday
October 17, 2018
Congratulations to EEB Doctoral Candidate, Tiara Moore for her article published in the upcoming Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography Bulletin
October 12, 2018
EEB Ph.D student, Amanda Robin, Featured on STEAM Sunday on CBS2/KCAL9 news
October 1, 2018
Alumnus Morton La Kretz donates additional $15 million for UCLA Botany Building
September 17, 2018
Professors Pamela Yeh and Van Savage, as well as Postdoctoral Researcher, Elif Tekin's remarkable NSF- and NIH/NCATS-funded npj Systems Biology and Applications antibiotics research featured in several News Avenues
August 20, 2018
Professor Emeritus J Lee Kavanau Passes Away at the Age of 96
August 13, 2018
Professor James Lloyd-Smith and lab featured in Nature
August 10, 2018
EEB Postdoctoral Researcher, Gary Bucciarelli, and EEB Professor, Brad Shaffer featured in the UCLA Newsroom
August 6, 2018
Professor Noa Pinter-Wollman featured on Daily Bruin
July 26, 2018
Professor Noa Pinter-Wollman featured on EurekAlert and Phys.org
July 25, 2018
Professor Noa Pinter-Wollman featured in the UCLA Newsroom
July 24, 2018
Professor Dan Blumstein featured on NPR Morning Edition
June 19, 2018
"Using DNA barcoding to track seafood mislabeling in Los Angeles Restaurants" is one of the top 20 downloaded papers of 2017 in Conservation Biology Journal
June 15, 2018
For one grad and his dad a happy twist on like father, like son
May 18, 2018
Congratulations to MS student, Elizabeth Reid-Wainscoat (Grether lab), for being one of two inaugural UCLA CIRTL-Certified Scholars
May 16, 2018
Professor Tom Smith and Co-Authors featured in the UCLA newsroom
May 14, 2018
Tai Michaels Wins First Place
April 30, 2018
Tai Michaels Wins First Place in the Environmental Division of Los Angeles Science Fair and First place in the California State Science Fair
April 19, 2018
Professor Michael Alfaro featured in UCLA Newsroom
March 20, 2018
EEB Lecturer, Tonya Kane, honored with professional development award
March 12, 2018
Professor Michael Alfaro lab published in Nature Ecology & Evolution
February 2, 2018
EEB Doctoral Candidate, Zack Gold, Featured in the UCLA Newsroom
January 18, 2018
Botanist Margaret Lewis Passes Away at the age of 98
January 17, 2018
Professor Blumstein's long-term marmots study featured in many articles
January 4, 2018
Professor Tom Smith Recently Published in Science

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