UCLA EEB - Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

04/29/2022

Congratulations to our EEB faculty, Dr. Blaire Van Valkenburgh, Dr. Brad Shaffer, and Dr. Peter Narins on this amazing accomplishment!! 🥳

04/28/2022

Congratulations Professor Priyanga Amarasekare! 💙💛

Priyanga Amarasekare, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology in the Department of EEB, has won the Robert H. MacArthur Award from the Ecological Society of America.

Dr. Amarasekare’s research focuses on the ecology and evolution of species interactions in variable environments. She is widely recognized for making fundamental advances in the field while tackling and solving important practical problems, using an integrative approach to strike a balance between mathematical tractability, biological realism and societal importance.

Her research has been cited more than 12,000 times since she earned her doctorate in 1998. In the past five years, she has earned more than $1.7 million in research grants from the National Science Foundation and the James S. McDonnell Foundation. Her awards and honors include a 2021 John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship.

04/14/2022

Congratulations Austin! 💙💛

Austin is also one of the recipients of the Graduate Research Fellowships from the National Science Foundation. She has even accepted our offer to join as a PhD student this fall🐻 We are so proud of the work she does for the EEB Department!

04/14/2022

Congratulations Xochitl! 💙💛

Xochitl is one of the recipients of the Graduate Research Fellowships from the National Science Foundation. We are grateful and extremely proud of the work she has done in the EEB Department and at UCLA! For more insight on her research, please follow Xochitl on Twitter @/xortizross 🧸

04/12/2022

Hello EEB Undergraduate students! The application for our Spring 2023 FBQ is NOW LIVE 🚨Link is located in our bio! Good luck to everyone who applies 💙💛

03/22/2022

EEB graduate student Kelsi Rutledge of the Buth and Gordon lab wins 1st place at the 2022 UCLA Grad Slam Finals, "The Fluid Dynamics of Smell: A Stingray's Perspective". She will go on to compete in the UC Grad Slam Competition on May 6th, 2022 at the LinkedIn Headquarters in San Francisco. Congratulations Kelsi!!! 👏🏼🥳

03/03/2022

In Disney’s attempt to authentically represent Colombia’s environment in their recent movie, Encanto, the studio enlisted UCLA EEB's own Professor Felipe Zapata to be botanical adviser.

Felipe Zapata taps into his life’s work, as well as childhood memories, to give the animated film its distinctive flora.

02/26/2022

With the end of week 8, we wanted to remind our EEB students that major/minor requests are now being accepted until finals week!

Please send your requests through Message Center, and we will get to them as soon as we can 🧸 remember to be patient as we get requests from many students during this time

02/26/2022

Hello EEB students! Here is this week’s EEB Faculty Spotlight ✨

This week we are highlighting EEB Professor Blaire Van Valkenburgh, who was recently quoted in the UCLA Newsroom discussing the snare damage of lions’ teeth. This is especially important since lions are currently trying to be conserved! The link to this article will be in our bio ✔️

We hope you all have a great upcoming week 9! 💙💛

02/12/2022

Happy Friday Bruins! ✨ to mark the end of week 6, here is our EEB Faculty Spotlight!

This week we are highlighting Professor James Lloyd-Smith, who was recently quoted in a New York Times Article on the mutations of Omicron 😷

To read the article and to read up on Professor Lloyd-Smith’s lab work, click the link in our bio ‼️

02/08/2022

With Spring ‘22 enrollment around the corner, join the EEB Department’s VIRTUAL enrollment planning workshop on February 16 @ 5:30 PM 🐻💙💛

Open to ALL EEB students, the workshop can help answer questions on what courses are offered next quarter, tips and tricks to the enrollment process, and any questions on how to navigate your degree requirements ‼️

02/03/2022

Here’s to the upcoming end of week 5, Bruins 🧸✨ As enrollment approaches, so do new courses!

Professor Baniaga (he/him/his) will be teaching EEB 187: Plants & People this upcoming Spring 2022 🪴 The course is based on the belief that everyone has the ability to learn the basics of plant biology. Yes, even YOU!

Make sure to swipe to see what requirements EEB 187 will fulfill ➡️