Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior

Three LAS professors elected AAAS Fellows

2024-04-19

Three professors in the College of LAS have been elected 2023 Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. They are among the 502 scientists, engineers and innovators recognized for their scientifically and socially distinguished achievements by the world’s largest general...

Alison Bell is a pioneer in the study of animal personality

2024-04-12

A professor from the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences been awarded a 2024 Guggenheim Fellowship.Evolution, ecology and behavior professor Alison Bell is among 188 writers, scholars, artists and scientists...

Ecological Society of America (ESA) recognizes Jeannette Cullum with a Graduate Student Policy Award (GSPA)

2024-04-28

12 ESA awardees: 2024 Katherine S. McCarter Graduate Student Policy Award

The Ecological Society of America is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2024 Katherine S. McCarter Graduate Student Policy Award (GSPA). Students in the 2024 cohort are engaged in advocacy with an interest in science policy. Awardees will travel to Washington, D.C., for policy, communication...

Congratulations to Sarah Winnicki, honored by the American Ornithological Society with a Student Presentation Award

2023-12-18

Birds as Bridges: 2023 Ornithological Conference

Congratulations to Sarah Winnicki, who received the A. Brazier Howell Award from the American Ornithological Society for their presentation on how egg-laying order impacts the growth of American Robin nestlings. Sarah presented work following up on their previous findings...

College of LAS announces teaching and advising awards

2024-02-06

Quad and Student Union through leaded window

The College of LAS has selected 14 professors, graduate students, lecturers, and an advisor as the recipients of the 2024 teaching and advising awards.“We are proud to have such an impressive group of people advancing our vital teaching and advising goals,” said Venetria K. Patton, the Harry E....

The insights of the charismatic frogs

2023-10-26

A dyeing poison frog, Dendrobates tinctorius.

As if frogs aren’t reason enough to leap into this profile, researchers are starting to see more clearly what the creatures can tell us about animal behavior and biological organization. Eva Fischer, professor of evolution, ecology, and behavior and Lincoln...

New Team Science Leadership Program aims to form new collaborations among mid-career faculty

2023-08-31

Four SIB professors are participating in the Team Science Leadership Program offered by the IGB this fall. The Team Science Leadership Program is a new program being offered by the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, consisting of a series of workshops that bring...

Alison Bell honored with Campus Award for Excellence in Guiding Undergraduate Research

2023-04-14

Faculty, staff, and graduate teaching assistants at the University of Illinois, including 11 instructors from the College of LAS, were honored recently for excellence in teaching, mentoring, and advising. These awards, sponsored by the Office of the Provost, are collectively known as the Campus...

Illinois Students Awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowships

2023-04-10

Launched in 1952 shortly after Congress established NSF, the Graduate Research Fellowship (GRF) program represents the nation's oldest continuous investment in the scientific workforce. The program recruits high-potential, early-career researchers and supports their graduate training in science,...

Following in the footsteps of early 20th century naturalist Elizabeth Kerr

2023-06-06

Juliana Soto, with a sooty ant tanager, Habia gutturalis

I am walking in a forest and listening to a concert of birdsong at dawn. I pick one song out of the chorus – a fast chatter full of melodious whistles – the sound of the sooty ant tanager.“Today, we will probably get to know this bird up close,” I think. My colleagues and I set up and...

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