School of Integrative Biology

SIB Director Carla Cáceres honored with Executive Officer Distinguished Leadership Award

2020-06-19

Carla Cáceres, a professor of evolution, ecology and behavior and director of the School of Integrative Biology, ...received the Executive Officer Distinguished Leadership Award, which recognizes outstanding academic leadership and...

Cowbirds change their eggs’ sex ratio based on breeding time

2020-06-24

Brown-headed cowbirds show a bias in the sex ratio of their offspring depending on the time of the breeding season, researchers report in a new study. More female than male offspring hatch early in the breeding season in May, and more male hatchlings emerge in July.

How Humanity Unleashed a Flood of New Diseases

2020-06-22

What do Covid-19, Ebola, Lyme and AIDS have in common? They jumped to humans from animals after we started destroying habitats and ruining ecosystems.

Gene Robinson named interim dean of the College of LAS

2020-06-16

Renowned scholar, teacher, and administrator begins role July 1 Gene Robinson, a professor of entomology and director of the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, has been named interim dean of the College of Liberal Arts...

SIB alumna Deniz Namik awarded Fulbright grant

2020-06-09

Deniz Namik is among 14 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign students and recent alumni who were offered Fulbright grants to pursue international education, research and teaching experiences across the globe this coming year. She earned a bachelor’s in integrative biology and...

Study tracks decades of life cycle changes in nonwoody plants

2020-06-09

For 25 years, Carol Augspurger visited a patch of ancient woods near Urbana to look at the same 25 one-square-meter plots of earth she first demarcated for study in 1993. She surveyed the plots once a week in spring and summer, tracking the major life events of each...

SIB's Commitment to Diversity and Equity

2020-06-01

Dear SIB Community, At the end of May, 2020, Chancellor Jones sent out an email with a powerful message of unity for this campus - we must come together and care for one another. He reminds us that the University of Illinois is a "...

Cicadas Are Delightful Weirdos You Should Learn to Love

2020-06-04

As Brood IX takes flight for the first time in 17 years, cicada lovers have their ears open. Around this time of year, Marianne Alleyne hosts dozens of houseguests in her basement. Far from using camping equipment or cots, they sleep upside-down, clinging to a...

Genetically modified mosquitoes could be released beginning this summer

2020-06-03

Silver bullet or jumping the gun? This summer, for the first time, genetically modified mosquitoes could be released in the U.S. within the states of Florida and Texas. On May 1, 2020, the company Oxitec received an ...

James O’Dwyer Selected as 2020–2021 Radcliffe Institute Fellow

2020-05-26

James O’Dwyer has been named a 2020–2021 fellow at the ...

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