Rice University

Welcome

The Department

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Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Rice University is addressing important ecological and evolutionary questions with collaborative research initiatives and innovative ecological, evolutionary, and genomic tools.

Graduate Program

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Our graduate program fosters research skills through working relationships between students and faculty. Graduate degrees include M.A., M.S., and Ph.D. Courses range from classroom lectures, to discussion-oriented seminars, and field study throughout the US and in several foreign countries.

Undergraduate Program

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Undergraduate studies emphasize a broad range of classroom courses, laboratory practicals, and research experiences that can lead to either a B.S. or B.A. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology or a B.A. in Biological Sciences.

Seminars

News

Amy Savage's paper wins 2011 OTS Outstanding Student Paper Award

Graduate student Onja Razafindratsima's poster was named best student poster at the annual meeting of the Texas Associatin of Biological Anthropologists

Graduate student Ching-Hua Shih's poster receives award at the 34th annual meeting of the American Society of Primatologists

Evan Siemann interview by Houston Chronicle on his tallow tree research

The Kohn Lab paper reporting the effects of hybridization on poison resistance in mice was widely discussed in the US and Forgeign press including; Science, Science News, MSNBC, Discovery News, and other sites.

Onja Razafindratsima awarded prestigeous Schlumberger Faculty for the Future Fellowships and a second year Leaky Foundation Baldwin Fellowship

Juan Diaz to receive a three year graduate student stipend from the National Council of Science and Technology of Mexico(CONACYT).

Maria Meza-Lopez awarded EPA STAR Fellowships

EEB Grduate Students Lukas Bell-Dereske and Maria Meza-Lopez awarded NSF Predoctoral Fellowships

Juli Carrillo receives NSF Dissertation Development Improvement Grant (DDIG)

Texas ants cultivate cold-hardy fungus - PNAS paper co-authored by Scott Solomon featured in Futurity

Ye jin Kang, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology senior, named Rhodes Scholar
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Dunham research featured on cover of Global Change Biology
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Jobs

HUXLEY FELLOW in EVOLUTION