The Ecology, Evolution, Behavior, and Conservation faculty in the
Department of Biological Sciences at Northern Illinois University are
seeking applicants to the M.S. and Ph.D. graduate programs starting
fall 2020.Research interests among the faculty are diverse and include community
ecology, restoration ecology, conservation genetics, vertebrate
and invertebrate evolution, plant phylogenetics, behavioral ecology,
microbial ecology, and bioinformatics.EEBC faculty that are taking graduate students for fall 2020 are:
-Neil W. Blackstone, ecophysiology of corals and their
relatives, evolutionary conflict and conflict mediation:
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evolution, grass phylogenetics and phylogenomics, botany:
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especially behavior, and applied), behavioral ecology
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invasion biology https://nam01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fjenniferkoop.weebly.com%2Fpeople.html&data=02%7C01%7Cpamela.diggle%40uconn.edu%7Ce7ef9ac8d67a4a0cc21408d73b4b101b%7C17f1a87e2a254eaab9df9d439034b080%7C0%7C0%7C637043065889508424&sdata=A4qnxJCXBdEDpO2ZvkzWamr1ciq8mrpIZqvDqL5SPAQ%3D&reserved=0-Karen E. Samonds, paleontology, skeletal biology and paleobiogeography:
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and astrobiology: https://nam01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwswingley.wixsite.com%2Flabsite&data=02%7C01%7Cpamela.diggle%40uconn.edu%7Ce7ef9ac8d67a4a0cc21408d73b4b101b%7C17f1a87e2a254eaab9df9d439034b080%7C0%7C0%7C637043065889508424&sdata=Rfw1vpcpC7XybmYDK36k6sdQhVXjDW7RcKGLpmX0Jrg%3D&reserved=0Details of the graduate program and application process are available
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department offers teaching assistantships including stipend and tuition
waiver, on a competitive basis. The deadline for application materials is
January 1, 2020. However, prospective students should contact potential
faculty advisors well in advance of applying to discuss research interests
and relevant qualifications.Northern Illinois University is a 17,000-student research university
situated an hour from downtown Chicago in DeKalb, Illinois, a diverse
community of 50,000 with a low cost of living. Regional research resources
include The Field Museum, Burpee Museum of Natural History, Nachusa
Grasslands, Morton Arboretum, Fermilab, Argonne National Laboratory,
the NIU Lorado Taft campus, and numerous local county forest preserves
and state parks.