Dean Gittleman announces he will step down in 2021
Jun 2020
Dr. John Gittleman, UGA Foundation Professor and founding Dean of the Odum School of Ecology, announces he will step down as Dean at the end of the 2020-2021 academic year.
Alumni News: Becker wins BES Sidnie Manton Award
Jun 2020
Odum School alumnus Daniel Becker, PhD ’17, was named the winner of the 2020 Sidnie Manton Award by the British Ecological Society.
Drake: America needs a national center for infectious disease intelligence
Jun 2020
Prof. John Drake makes the case that the time is now to establish a national center for infectious disease intelligence.
LTER Graduate Student Spotlight: Kelsey Solomon
Jun 2020
PhD student Kelsey Solomon discussed her research at the Coweeta Long Term Ecological Research site in an interview for the LTER Network.
Drake discusses infectious disease modeling on CBS podcast
May 2020
Prof. John Drake discussed infectious disease modeling on Debriefing the Briefing, a CBS News podcast covering the coronavirus pandemic.
Lizzie King: Linking social change and ecological data
May 2020
Restoration ecologist Elizabeth King incorporates social and cultural information into her ecological research.
Can the course of the pandemic be predicted?
May 2020
Prof. John Drake gave a talk, “Can the course of the epidemic be predicted?” for UGA’s “Ask Me Anything” series on the COVID-19 pandemic.
Fellowship honors late Prof. Emerita Rebecca Sharitz
May 2020
The family of the late Prof. Emerita Rebecca Sharitz and her husband Carl Byrne Hatfield has created a fellowship in their memory to support doctoral students in ecology and plant biology working at SREL.
The story behind UGA’s first Earth Day
Apr 2020
The first Earth Day at UGA featured a day-long teach-in led by students and faculty from the Institute of Ecology and student group Balance.
UGA professor, alumnus are 2020 ESA Fellows
Apr 2020
UGA ecologist John Drake was named a Fellow of the Ecological Society of America and Jacob Allgeier, PhD ’13, was named an Early Career Fellow for 2020.