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  • Graduate position: MississippiStateU.2.ButterflyEvo
  • Graduate position: UIdaho.NativeTroutAdaptiveCapacity
  • job openings at CFE/Save the Sound!
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  • Graduate position: ecology and genetics of walleye at UW-Stevens Point
  • Allied Whale Research Internships
  • Animal Endocrinology Internship – Fall 2019
  • scholarship opportunity

About Us

EEB is a biological science department at UConn. Our research focuses on ecology, evolution, systematics, biological diversity, conservation, and the functional biology of organisms. We teach the important majors core course BIOL 1108, the non-majors BIOL 1102, and a diversity of upper level and graduate courses in ecology and evolutionary biology. More...

Explore the faculty, staff, postdocs, and graduate students of EEB, the courses we offer, collections we maintain, our current and past newsletters, and watch our 4 minute video introduction to find out what we are all about!

  • Grace Casselberry with great hammerhead
    Grace Casselberry (UConn EEB major, graduated 2013) with a great hammerhead shark from NOAA acoustic work in Crooked Island Sound, Florida
  • Green algae living inside salamander egg
    EEB researchers study interactions among organisms (here, salamanders and green algae)
  • Photo of a cicada
    EEB scientists study the diversity and evolution of organisms (here, New Zealand cicadas)
  • EEB Group Photo
    EEB is celebrating its 30th anniversary in 2015
  • UConn students at COP-22 in Marrakech
    UConn students attended the 2016 climate change conference COP-22 in Morocco

Upcoming Seminars

  1. Teale: Beasts at Bedtime, Environmental Wisdom in Children's LiteratureTeale: Beasts at Bedtime, Environmental Wisdom in Children's Literature4:00pm2/21
  2. EEB Seminar: Spencer Barrett (Univ. Toronto)EEB Seminar: Spencer Barrett (Univ. Toronto)3:30pm2/28
  3. EEB Seminar: Molly Cummings (Univ. Texas Austin)EEB Seminar: Molly Cummings (Univ. Texas Austin)3:30pm3/7
  4. EEB/NRE Seminar: Vincent D'Amico (USDA/Univ. Delaware)EEB/NRE Seminar: Vincent D'Amico (USDA/Univ. Delaware)3:30pm3/14

Teale: Beasts at Bedtime, Environmental Wisdom in Children's Literature

Thursday, February 21st, 2019

04:00 PM - 05:00 PM

Storrs Campus
Konover Auditorium, Dodd Center

Teale: Beasts at Bedtime, Environmental Wisdom in Children's Literature
Teale Lecture: Dr. Liam Heneghan, Professor of Environmental Science and Studies at DePaul University.

Beasts at Bedtime: Revealing the Environmental Wisdom in Children’s Literature

Thursday, February 21, 2019
4:00pm – 5:00pm


Konover Auditorium, Dodd Center


Talking lions, philosophical bears, very hungry caterpillars, wise spiders, altruistic trees, companionable moles, urbane elephants: this is the magnificent menagerie that delights our children at bedtime. Within the entertaining pages of many children’s books, however, also lie profound teachings about the natural world that can help children develop an educated and engaged appreciation of the dynamic environment they inhabit.


In Beasts at Bedtime, Liam Heneghan examines the environmental underpinnings of children’s stories. From Beatrix Potter to Harry Potter, Heneghan unearths the universal insights into our inextricable relationship with nature that underlie so many classic children’s stories. Some of the largest environmental challenges in coming years—from climate instability, the extinction crisis, freshwater depletion, and deforestation—are likely to become even more severe as this generation of children grows up. Though today’s young readers will bear the brunt of these environmental calamities, they will also be able to contribute to environmental solutions if prepared properly. Heneghan shows how the nature curriculum is already embedded in bedtime stories, from the earliest board books like The Rainbow Fish to contemporary young adult classics like The Hunger Games.

Liam Heneghan is an ecosystem ecologist, Professor, and Co-Director of DePaul University’s Institute for Nature and Children. He is a Dubliner, an occasional poet, a tin whistle player, and a father of two grown children to whom he read every night of their early years.

The Edwin Way Teale Lecture Series brings leading scholars and scientists to the University of Connecticut to present public lectures on nature and the environment. The lectures are open to the public and do not require registration.

For additional information: https://cese.uconn.edu/the-edwin-way-teale-lecture-series/

Contact Information: mnhinfo@uconn.edu

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EEB Seminar: Spencer Barrett (Univ. Toronto)

Thursday, February 28th, 2019

03:30 PM - 04:30 PM

Storrs Campus
BPB 131

EEB Seminar: Spencer Barrett (Univ. Toronto)
"Genomic insights into the evolution and ecology of plant sexual diversity"

Contact Information: pamela.diggle@uconn.edu

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EEB Seminar: Molly Cummings (Univ. Texas Austin)

Thursday, March 7th, 2019

03:30 PM - 04:30 PM

Storrs Campus
BPB 131

EEB Seminar: Molly Cummings (Univ. Texas Austin)
"Poison and passion: studying mechanisms of mate choice in frogs and fishes"

Contact Information: kentwood.wells@uconn.edu

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EEB/NRE Seminar: Vincent D'Amico (USDA/Univ. Delaware)

Thursday, March 14th, 2019

03:30 PM - 04:30 PM

Storrs Campus
BPB 131

EEB/NRE Seminar: Vincent D'Amico (USDA/Univ. Delaware)
"The FRAME: a dispersed network for urban forest ecology"

Photo credit: Vincent D'Amico

Contact Information: chris.elphick@uconn.edu

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EEB Related Events

  1. Feb 19 MCB Seminar Series: Dr. Alexey Onufriev3:30pm
  2. Feb 21 Teale: Beasts at Bedtime, Environmental Wisdom in Children's Literature4:00pm
  3. Feb 21 MCB Ph.D. and PSM/PM Career Development Seminar5:00pm

MCB Seminar Series: Dr. Alexey Onufriev

Tuesday, February 19th, 2019

03:30 PM - 04:30 PM

Storrs Campus
BPB 131

MCB Seminar Series: Dr. Alexey Onufriev
“Department of Molecular and Cell Biology welcomes Dr. Alexey Onufriev from Virginia Tech hosted by Dr. Eric May”

Contact Information: mcboffice.uconn.edu

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Teale: Beasts at Bedtime, Environmental Wisdom in Children's Literature

Thursday, February 21st, 2019

04:00 PM - 05:00 PM

Storrs Campus
Konover Auditorium, Dodd Center

Teale: Beasts at Bedtime, Environmental Wisdom in Children's Literature
Teale Lecture: Dr. Liam Heneghan, Professor of Environmental Science and Studies at DePaul University.

Beasts at Bedtime: Revealing the Environmental Wisdom in Children’s Literature

Thursday, February 21, 2019
4:00pm – 5:00pm


Konover Auditorium, Dodd Center


Talking lions, philosophical bears, very hungry caterpillars, wise spiders, altruistic trees, companionable moles, urbane elephants: this is the magnificent menagerie that delights our children at bedtime. Within the entertaining pages of many children’s books, however, also lie profound teachings about the natural world that can help children develop an educated and engaged appreciation of the dynamic environment they inhabit.


In Beasts at Bedtime, Liam Heneghan examines the environmental underpinnings of children’s stories. From Beatrix Potter to Harry Potter, Heneghan unearths the universal insights into our inextricable relationship with nature that underlie so many classic children’s stories. Some of the largest environmental challenges in coming years—from climate instability, the extinction crisis, freshwater depletion, and deforestation—are likely to become even more severe as this generation of children grows up. Though today’s young readers will bear the brunt of these environmental calamities, they will also be able to contribute to environmental solutions if prepared properly. Heneghan shows how the nature curriculum is already embedded in bedtime stories, from the earliest board books like The Rainbow Fish to contemporary young adult classics like The Hunger Games.

Liam Heneghan is an ecosystem ecologist, Professor, and Co-Director of DePaul University’s Institute for Nature and Children. He is a Dubliner, an occasional poet, a tin whistle player, and a father of two grown children to whom he read every night of their early years.

The Edwin Way Teale Lecture Series brings leading scholars and scientists to the University of Connecticut to present public lectures on nature and the environment. The lectures are open to the public and do not require registration.

For additional information: https://cese.uconn.edu/the-edwin-way-teale-lecture-series/

Contact Information: mnhinfo@uconn.edu

More

MCB Ph.D. and PSM/PM Career Development Seminar

Thursday, February 21st, 2019

05:00 PM - 06:00 PM

Storrs Campus
Beach Hall 209

MCB Ph.D. and PSM/PM Career Development Seminar
Greg Mirando, Associate Scientist, Abcam. Professional development seminar for students in the MCB Ph.D., M.S. Applied Genomics, M.S. Microbial Systems Analysis, and M.S. Applied Biochemistry and Cell Biology programs.

Contact Information: elaine.mirkin@uconn.edu

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EEB Newsletter Fall 2018 edition

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General questions: Madeline Hennessey (madeline.hennessey@uconn.edu) or Nick Boston (nicholas.boston@uconn.edu)
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