A minority can influence whole group to change, study finds
May 2025
Ants are hardwired to accept just one queen or multiple queens, but a minority can change the way others behave, an Odum School researcher found.
Study reveals even common plants are threatened by climate change
May 2025
New research from Jill Anderson is published in Science.
Sonia Altizer: Two decades of scholarship and leadership
May 2025
Sonia Altizer served in the Odum School of Ecology for 20 years, earning accolades for teaching, research, mentorship and administration.
Museum collections reveal worldwide spread of butterfly disease
Apr 2025
Research from Sonia Altizer explores how museum specimens can be used to track the spread of disease.
Vahsen studies plant evolution and its consequences
Mar 2025
As a kid, Megan Vahsen was really interested in science and math, and she was good at them. So when she went to college, it made sense to major in
UGA graduate student connects conservation and agriculture
Mar 2025
Ecology grad student and Butler Fellow Mackenzi Hallmark is building the expertise to connect human decision-making with ecological outcomes.
Clinic combines law and science to protect land
Dec 2024
The Odum School partnered with the School of Law to create UGA’s Land Conservation Clinic, which takes a cross-disciplinary approach to land conservation.
Predicting pandemics with Pejman Rohani
Dec 2024
Ecology’s Pej Rohani and CEID colleagues are helping to develop computational models for forecasting the spread of influenza, which annually causes half a million deaths worldwide.
The hidden disease risks of modern housing development in rural Africa
Nov 2024
Before she joined the Odum School, assistant professor Tamika Lunn conducted research on where bats in Kenya prefer to roost. The results were published in the latest issue of Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment.
The monarch butterfly may not be endangered, but its migration is
Oct 2024
Breeding population of monarchs is stable, but they’re dying off on their way to Mexico With vigorous debate surrounding the health of the monarch butterfly, new research from the University