Cancelled - Get the inside scoop at the Herbarium at 3:30 p.m., Monday, 10/29. Vans leave the Natural Science Building loading dock at 3 p.m. RSVP to Julia Eussen by Friday, 10/26. Please tell her if you need a ride or can give someone a ride. The Herbarium tour is open to all EEB students, faculty, staff and affiliates. 

Ph.D. defense seminar
2:30 p.m., Monday, 10/8/07, Room 1040 Dana Building. Ondrej Podlaha presents “Evolution of genes involved in mammalian reproduction and sex determination.”

EEB concentrators pizza reception with faculty
5 – 6:30 p.m., 10/2/07, Room 2060 Kraus Natural Science Building
All EEB concentrators and minors are invited to a reception to meet EEB faculty and concentration advisors. This informal setting will be a great place to get to know one another, find out how the new program is working and hear students' ideas for the future. Feel free to invite others who are considering EEB in their academic futures. RSVP to Tony DeRuiter by 9/28/07.

Undergrad Research Open House
12:10 - 1 p.m., Tuesday, 9/25/07, Room 2009 Ruthven Museums. EEB faculty will talk to undergraduates who are interested in independent research projects.

Fall department retreat
Saturday, 9/8/07 at the Masonic Temple Hall, Pinckney, Mich. A social, fun, educational event. The program will include field trips, a natural history scavenger hunt, and brief informal presentations on various fun topics. Breakfast and lunch are provided; if you would like to stay for a barbecue dinner, the cost will be $10 for faculty and $5/person for all others. Spouses, significant others, and children are very welcome as guests.
 

If people would like to camp on the Friday and Saturday night nearby in the Brighton Recreation Area, contact Mike
Sheehan. Camping or not, be sure to bring clothes for outdoor hiking and playing, extra shoes or boots and bathing suits for a swim in one of the nearby lakes.
 

IMPORTANT: If you have a digital camera, please bring it for the scavenger hunt, along with a USB cable.

Vans will be available for transportation and a sign-up sheet for rides will be posted in the EEB office. Car pooling is encouraged if you want to drive.
 

Participation is both valuable and fun for new students, experienced students and faculty. New students benefit greatly by meeting their new colleagues and learning about the graduate program and research in EEB. Everyone gets to know each other better in a relaxed and fun setting.

Please let us know if you plan to attend, by replying to Jane Sullivan in the EEB Office (Room 2019 Natural Science) with the requested information (see below). Checks or cash for dinner can also be given to Jane. We encourage you to give us your reply about attending as soon as possible so we can plan appropriately.

1. How many adults and children will be going?
2. Will you be present for breakfast? Lunch? Dinner?
3.  Are you a vegetarian or vegan?
4. If you have any allergies (food or insects or other)?
5. If you need a van ride?  If so, what is the earliest you intend to depart?
6. Would you be willing to drive a van?
7. If you are planning to drive would you be willing to carpool?  If yes, when do you intend to depart?
8. If you have a lifeguard license or know CPR?

Rackham Graduate School orientation
9 a.m. - 12:30 p.m., Friday, 8/31/07. Continental breakfast, introductions to colleagues, campus resources and procedures.

New EEB student orientation
9 a.m., Thursday, 8/30/07, Room 2009 Ruthven Museums. Get acquainted with new colleagues and EEB’s resources.

New GSI teaching orientation
Monday, 8/27/07 - Tuesday, 8/28/07. For new and returning graduate student instructors and for those who may teach in the future.

Ph.D. defense seminar
Heather Lerner presents “Molecular phylogenetics of diurnal birds of prey in the avian Accipitridae family,” 10 a.m., Tuesday, 8/7/07 in Room 1040 Dana Building.

Ph.D. defense seminar
Beth Hahn presents “Conspecific song affects habitat selection by migratory forest songbirds: Breeding abundances, reproductive consequences and conservation applications” Monday, 7/30/07 at 2 p.m., Rackham West Conference Room.

Challenges of Climate Change in the Great Lakes Region Summit
Nationwide students from the BART Program (Biosphere Atmosphere Research and Training) are holding a summit at the U-M Biological Station in Pellston, Mich. July 26-27, 2007. Featuring a wide range of experts, the event will provide a forum for discussing the regional consequences of climate change—including implications for science, technology and policy. Please visit the UMBS Web site (under Events & News) to see a list of speakers and panelists, as well as the tentative schedule for the event. Please e-mail the U-M BART office or call (734) 647-0536 more information.

Ph.D. defense seminar
Xiaoxia Wang presents “Molecular evolution in primates,” 10 a.m., Friday, 7/20/2007. Rackham East Conference Room (fourth floor).

Botany and plant biology conference in Chicago

Dr. Tony Reznicek and Jess Peirson, Ph.D. student, organized a symposium on Great Lakes region botany for the 2007 Botany and Plant Biology Joint Congress in Chicago, July 7 – 11 at the Chicago Hilton. The symposium is titled: Evolution in a Glaciated Landscape: Contribution of Endemism to Great Lakes Biodiversity.

Reznicek presents Through a Glass Darkly – Development of Great Lakes Vegetation Occupied by Endemic Plants. Peirson presents The Evolution of Great Lakes Region Endemic Plants: Influences of Postglacial Migration and Ecological Differentiation.

EEB Bop
Faculty, students and staff celebrated spring and the end of the semester at the Mattheii Botanical Gardens. (photos)

Ph.D. defense seminar
Benjamin Montgomery presents “Competition for pollination between introduced and native species with different floral traits.” 10 a.m., Friday, 6/15/07, Rackham West Conference Room.

Come to their defense
Ron Oldfield, Ph.D. candidate, “The effects of behavioral interaction on sex determination in the Midas cichlid,” 2 p.m., Friday, 4/6/07, Rackham East Conference Room.

Krista McGuire, Ph.D. candidate,"Ectomycorrhizal associations function to maintain tropical monodominance: Studies from Guyana," 2 p.m., Friday, 4/13/07, Rackham West Conference Room.

 

Mike Fraker, Ph.D. candidate, 10:30 a.m., Friday, 4/20/07, "Predation risk perception and the anti-predator behavioral dynamics of larval anurans," Room 2009 Ruthven Museums.

"One dam problem after another: Transforming lake communities to improve environmental quality"

Professor John Lehman lectures about his research on Ford Lake including theories, results and future plans at 8 p.m., 4/18/07 at Weber's Inn. Free and open to the public. The lecture is hosted by the U-M Chapter of Sigma Xi (the science and engineering honor society), following their annual banquet. The lecture will be taped by U-M Media Productions and shown on U-M TV. View the project Web site.

Outstanding GSI award ceremony
Krista McGuire and Amanda Zellmer will be recognized for their Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Awards at a public event from 4 – 6 p.m., Thursday, 4/12/07, Rackham Amphitheatre, fourth floor. Provost Teresa Sullivan, keynote speaker, presents “Teaching as a Calling.”

Career Options Workshop: Is there life after the Ph.D.?
8:45 a.m. – 3:30 p.m., Saturday, 3/31/07, Room 2009 Ruthven Museums, lunch provided at noon, 6:30 p.m., potluck dinner, Beverly Rathcke’s house, 810 5th St., Ann Arbor.

The EEB Diversity Committee hosts this workshop for graduate students featuring seven speakers, all Ph.D. U-M EEB graduates. They will give brief presentations summarizing their job responsibilities (including research and teaching), pros and cons of the career, and how work and a personal life are harmonized. The workshop concludes with a panel discussion.

The goal of the Career Options Workshop is to show current graduate students the diversity of careers available to Ph.D. scientists, including job opportunities outside of academia, and to create an atmosphere in which students can ask successful scientists about what different careers entail on a daily basis, professionally and personally. The event is funded by an NSF Advance Grant, EEB and LSA.

Career Options Workshop speakers (left to right)
Dr. Bruce Ferguson, El Colegio de la Frontera Sur, ECOSUR; Dr. Betsy Kirkpatrick, associate professor, University of Puget Sound; Dr. Rob Raguso, associate professor, University of South Carolina (in back); Dr. Helda Morales, El Colegio de la Frontera Sur, ECOSUR; Dr. Chris O'Neal, Center for Research on Learning and Teaching, U-M; Dr. Karen Glennemeier, science director, Audobon Society; Dr. Tim Pearce, assistant curator, Carnegie Museum of Natural History.

Preparing Future Faculty in the Sciences
Noon – 1:30 p.m., Room 1200 Chemistry

March 21, panel discussion, "Career options for students"

Wendy Goodson, Air Force Research Lab; David Wolinski, Physics, U-M; Jacob Schwarz, Pfizer Global Research

March 28, panel discussion, “Communicating science”

Nancy Ross Flanigan, U-M News Service science writer, and Dr. David Mindell, curator, Museum of Zoology, EEB, U-M

April 4, seminar, “Instructional technologies”
Dr. Perry Samson, associate chair Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Space Sciences, U-M

April 11, panel discussion, “The tenure process”
Dr. Moses Lee, dean of science, Hope College; Dr. Douglas Richstone, chair, astronomy, U-M; Dr. Ursula Jakob, Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, U-M

EEB special seminar
4 p.m. 3/30/07, 2009 Ruthven Museums, Dr. Rob Raguso, University of South Carolina, presents "Flexibility and context in nectar foraging: Lessons from the hawkmoth, Manduca sexta.

Science Café Series
5:30 - 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, March 21, 2007, Upstairs at the original Cottage Inn Restaurant, 512 E. William Street, Ann Arbor
Professor John Vandermeer, acting chair of EEB, presents "What's for dinner after global warming?"
The U-M ecologist explores the relationship between agriculture and climate change and how they affect each other. Food security, modern farming techniques, food transport, drought and other issues will be on the menu.

Special seminar: Sexual selection and plumage coloration in birds
Dr. Stephanie Doucet, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Windsor, presents this special seminar at 11 a.m., Friday, 3/16/07 in Room 2009 Ruthven Museums. Host: Robert Payne, professor and curator of the Museum of Zoology.

Program in Science, Technology and Society (STS)
Winter 2007 Distinguished Lecture, “Reformulating the Nature/Nurture Opposition in Scientific Studies of Race, Gender, and Sexuality,” by Anne Fausto-Sterling, Brown University. Introduced by President Mary Sue Coleman, University of Michigan, Monday, March 19, 2007, 4:00 –5:30 p.m., Forum Hall, 4th floor, Palmer Commons, reception will follow - all are welcome.

Anne Fausto-Sterling is professor of Biology and Women's Studies, as well as chair of the Faculty Committee on Science Studies at Brown University.  Her most recent book, Sexing the Body, was co-winner of the Robert K. Merton Award of the American Sociological Association as well as named one of the Outstanding Academic Books of 2000 by CHOICE Magazine.

Co-sponsored by ADVANCE, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, and Women’s Studies.

Young Scientists Symposium 2007 a success

The Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology sponsored the U-M Young Scientists Symposium on Saturday, March 10, focused on the topic of evolutionary ecology. Eight outstanding young scientists were selected from an international pool of applicants. They presented current research that links ecological and evolutionary processes across a wide range of plants and animals. Judith L. Bronstein of the University of Arizona gave the plenary talk: "How little do we know about mutualisms?" Thanks to alumnus Nancy Williams-Walls for generously funding the event.

SNRE presents forest landscape ecology lectures
The School of Natural Resources and Environment presents the following lectures as part of their Forest Landscape Ecology faculty search.

4 p.m., March 12, 2007, 2024 Dana
Dr. Daniel Kashian presents “Playing with fire:  Implications of climate change for disturbances that shape Rocky Mountain forest landscapes”

4 p.m., March 15, 2024 Dana
Dr. Ines Ibanez presents “Recruitment dynamics of tree species under global climate change.  Evaluating the sources of potential migrant species.”

4 p.m., March 19, 2024 Dana
Dr. Jacqueline Mohan presents “Global change impacts on temperate forests:  The effects of increased temperatures and elevated CO2”

EEB Ph.D. thesis defense

Xionglei He presents “Genomic studies on gene duplication” at 1 p.m., Wednesday, 2/21/07, Room 2009 Ruthven Museums.

Ph.D. thesis defense
Mary Anne Evans presents "Phytoplankton ecology in the arctic lakes," 9 a.m., Wednesday, 1/3/07, East Conference Room, Rackham Building.

Right in our own back yard: Climate change impacts and policy responses in the Great Lakes basin
Professors George Kling and Barry Rabe lecture from 6 - 8 p.m. January 31, 2007, reception at 5:30 p.m., Exhibit Museum of Natural History.

"Night at the Museum"
Faculty, students, staff and their families had their very own "Night at the Museum" at the rockin' 2006 EEB Holiday Party which was held from 6 - 11 p.m., Friday, December 15, 2006 at Ruthven Museums. Click the link above to see some photos.

Harmonizing work and family life as a scientist
Noon – 1:30 p.m., Monday, November 13, 2006, 2060 Kraus Natural Science Building

Join Professor Priscilla Tucker, Curator of the U-M Museum of Zoology for a graduate student lunch discussion.

Raven sociobiology
3 p.m., Friday, November 10, 2006

Professor Bernd Heinrich of the University of Vermont will present this special seminar in Room 2009 Museum of Zoology. Heinrich discusses cognition, social learning, winter behavior, and animal and plant energetics physiology.

Opportunities and challenges for women in science: Personal and other case studies

Noon - 1:30 p.m., Thursday, November 9, 2006, 2060 Kraus Natural Sciences

This lunch discussion for graduate students is presented by Professor and Chair Victoria Sork, University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Institute of the Environment, sponsored by the EEB Diversity Committee.

Gender and race in the science professions: Strategies for remedying leaky and dry pipelines

1 - 2 p.m., Wednesday, November 8, 2006, Rackham Assembly Hall

This seminar is presented by Professor and Chair Victoria Sork of the University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Institute of the Environment. Co-sponsored by the Cantor Seminar, the Rackham School of Graduate Studies and the Provost's Office, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and the U-M Advance Project.

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