Professional science master’s student Carson Jones with Bodhi, one of three elephants at Denver Zoo’s Toyota Elephant Passage.  Many people don’t know what they want to be when they grow up. Others, like Carson Jones, have always known. “My parents would tell you I’ve wanted to be a zookeeper since I was about 2 years old,” [Read More...]

 

A recent Ph.D. graduate of the Department of Biology, Sarah Fitzpatrick, received a Young Investigators Award from the American Society of Naturalists for her work studying the effects of gene flow on wild animal populations. Now an assistant professor at Michigan State University, Fitzpatrick said: “I am extremely honored to receive the ASN Young Investigators [Read More...]

 

CSU’s Chris Funk, USFQ’s Juan M. Guayasamin, and colleagues have discovered a new species of frog, which they’ve named the Ecuadorian rainfrog. Credit: Centro Jambatu     It’s not every day someone gets to say, “I’ve discovered a new species.” It’s a claim that Colorado State University biologist Chris Funk can happily make. Funk and his [Read More...]

 

Colorado State University Distinguished Professor Diana Wall was recognized March 1 by the Ecological Society of America, which announced that she will receive its highest honor, the 2017 Eminent Ecologist Award, at the society’s annual meeting in August. The award honors a senior ecologist for an outstanding body of ecological work or sustained ecological contributions [Read More...]

 

Where did the summer go? Welcome back for another academic year after an eventful summer that saw progress on the new Biology Building, many students get their diplomas and many new students arriving, faculty, post-doc and graduate student awards, new funding for research and other updates about the Biology program at Colorado State University! [Read More...]

 

Melinda Smith, a professor in the Department of Biology and the Graduate Degree Program in Ecology, was recently featured in an article published on Elements, a site dedicated to the research and projects of the College of Natural Sciences along with each department at CSU. The article focuses on the important research Smith’s team is [Read More...]

 

Our own Joe von Fischer has found fame in finding methane!  A broader description of the project is published online at CSU Today: http://www.today.colostate.edu/story.aspx?id=10267 The EDF put together a really nice web page describing the project:  http://www.edf.org/climate/methanemaps The story was picked up broadly and already appeared in the Washington Post, Bloomberg, and Scientific American.  Some [Read More...]

 

Jennifer Ackerfield, Herbarium Collections Manager in the Biology Department, was recently featured as a guest blogger on Alien Plantation. Ackerfield wrote about the importance of herbaria in the 21st century and beyond in a blog titled “Botany is not dead, but this plant is”. Read her guest blog here: https://alienplantation.wordpress.com/2016/10/24/guest-post-botany-is-not-dead-but-this-plant-is/#more-875     [Read More...]

 

by Jennifer Ackerfield Harold David (H.D.) Harrington developed his deep love of and respect for plants during his childhood on a farm. He was born in De Motte, Indiana, on Mar. 14, 1903, living there until 1909 when the the family moved to Mitchell, South Dakota.  They moved yet again in 1911 to Graettinger, Iowa, [Read More...]

 

The Department of Biology at Colorado State University, located in Fort Collins, CO, seeks to hire a full-time Research Proposal Coordinator to research and support the preparation of complex scientific research proposals to a wide variety of federal, state, industry, foundation, and other sponsors. Key responsibilities include proposal development, investigating the availability of funding programs, [Read More...]