Cornell Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

One of the world’s leading evolutionary biologists, Dr. Svante Pääbo is giving a virtual seminar, TOMORROW, March 2nd @ 8:45AM. By applying genomic methods to ancient DNA from hominin specimens dating back tens to hundreds of thousands of years, Dr. Pääbo led the group that generated the first genome sequence of Neanderthals and described Denisovans for the first time. EEB is co-sponsoring the event, and has chosen Dr. Pääbo as the 2021 Harrison Lecturer. This prestigious honor is in memory of Dr. Richard Harrison; two of Rick’s research passions were speciation and hybridization; Dr. Pääbo’s work on hominins is related to both...

This just in! EEB faculty Abby Drake, Justin St. Juliana, Michelle Smith, and Maren Vitousek join forces with 5 other Cornell profs and former postdoc Clara Meaders on a large collaborative project to collect and address common student questions about succeeding in introductory STEM courses. The team hopes educators will use this work and the complied resources to proactively anticipate and address questions on the minds of students. Check out their recently published, Frontiers in Education paper: "What Questions Are on the Minds of STEM Undergraduate Students and How Can They Be Addressed?" https://www.frontiersin.org//10.3389/feduc.2021.639338/full (photo courtesy of Cornell University; Lindsay France, UREL).

TODAY, February 22 @ 2:45pm! Benjamin Z. Houlton, the Ronald P. Lynch Dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and EEB prof, will discuss the role of enhanced weatheringthe purposeful introduction of volcanic rock fines into agricultural soilas a carbon dioxide removal strategy, with co-benefits for soil health, fertilizer use efficiency, and improved crop quality and yields. He will focus on both the state of the science and issues and opportunities surrounding enhanced weathering as a billion-ton carbon dioxide removal strategy.

Please join us in recognizing and congratulating recent and former recipients of our department grad student awards! We are very proud of the ingenuity, creativity, professionalism and diversity of our graduate student community. https://ecologyandevolution.cornell.edu/grad-awards