News and Events – Page 37 – Department of Biology

2018 iNaturalist City Nature Challenge

April 18, 2018

Can you help find 100 species at the CWRU Farm? As part of the 2018 iNaturalist City Nature Challenge, we will document as many species as we can find at the University Farm. You don’t need to know how to find or identify plants and animals; all you need is...

Dr. Sarah Diamond elected Early Career Fellow of the Ecological Society of America

March 15, 2018

WASHINGTON, DC – The Ecological Society of America (ESA) is pleased to announce its 2018 Fellows. The Society’s fellowship program recognizes the many ways in which its members contribute to ecological research and discovery, communication, education and pedagogy, and management and policy. Fellows are members who have made outstanding contributions to...

Former graduate students in Biology featured in “The Atlantic.”

March 8, 2018

Please take a few minutes to read this beautiful description of the ongoing collaboration between CWRU Department of Biology and the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo. Elena Less (GRS '12), the zoo's associate animal curator, began her research on altering gorilla diets as a PhD student in biology. Also mentioned for her research on bacteria...

Success in reproduction is mostly about “not dying.” CWRU faculty member Robin Snyder featured in article.

March 6, 2018

It’s mostly a matter of not dying,” says Stephen Ellner, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell University. Ellner and Robin Snyder, associate professor of biology at Case Western Reserve University, are coauthors of the paper in American Naturalist. Funding for the...

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