Evelyn Gaiser, PhD ’97, has been appointed executive director of FIU’s School of Environment, Arts and Society (SEAS) and associate dean in the College of Arts & Sciences at Florida International University.
Craig Osenberg, a professor in the Odum School of Ecology, has been elected a Fellow of the Ecological Society of America. He is the fifth current or former UGA ecology faculty member so honored since the program began in 2012. Ecology alumnus Peter Groffman, PhD ’84, was one of three UGA alumni named Fellows this year.
Ecology master’s student Erin Abernethy is featured as one of “15 from 2015” on the UGA Commencement web site.
University of Georgia ecologist Andy Davis and his students studied beetles and their parasite loads last summer as part of the Research Experience for Undergraduates program at UGA, sponsored by the National Science Foundation. Their results that infected beetles were slightly more likely to lose fights?were published earlier this month in the journal PLOS One.
Ecology major Torre Lavelle, a University of Georgia Honors student, has been named a 2015 Morris K. Udall and Stewart L. Udall Foundation Scholar.
Ecologist Nancy Grimm will deliver the 30th annual Odum Lecture, “The Only Certainty Is Change: Reflections on a Stream, a City, and a Public University,” at the University of Georgia Odum School of Ecology on April 21 at 4 p.m.
Scientists at the Georgia Museum of Natural History at the University of Georgia have confirmed the first known occurrence in North America of Nephila clavata, the East Asian Joro spider.
Videos of the TEDxUGA 2015 and 2013 talks are now available online.
Environmental journalist Dan Fagin will discuss his 2014 Pulitzer Prize winning book, ?Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation,? March 19 at 4 p.m. in the University of Georgia Odum School of Ecology?s auditorium.
Odum School Dean John Gittleman, who studies large-scale evolutionary and ecological questions about biodiversity and conservation with a focus on mammals, was quoted in Science in an article about a new study of carnivore population regulation.