The Graduate Program in EEOB is proud to announce the PhD Defense of: Joseph Wu! Major Professor: Dr. Tim Higham Title: ““Ecomorphology of the House Geckos (Genus: Hemidactylus )” Date/Time: September 24th, 2025 at 3pm - 4pm Location: Online Zoom: Meeting ID: 963 994 3291 Passcode: 095070
The Graduate Program in EEOB is proud to announce the PhD Defense of: Jamie Dolan! Major Professor: Dr. Kimberly Hammond Title: ““Effect of voluntary exercise and exposure to hypoxia on body composition and organ size in Deer Mice (Peromyscus maniculatus sonoriensis)” Date/Time: September 10th, 2025 at 12pm – 1pm Location: Online Zoom: Meeting ID: 174...
Biologists in the US have shown for the first time that global biodiversity is concentrated within a few disproportionately large groups with exceptional rates of evolutionary diversification. This result suggests that rapid radiations, including adaptive radiations, have generated the majority of life on Earth.
The Graduate Program in EEOB is proud to announce the PhD Defense of: Allyn Nguyen! Major Professor: Dr. Natalie Holt Title: “Physiological mechanisms underpinning the unusual mate-holding behavior of the southern alligator lizard ( Elgaria multicarinata ).” Date/Time: August 21st, 2025 at 9am – 10am Location: Orbach 240 Zoom: Meeting ID: 955 6051 4740 Passcode...
The Graduate Program in EEOB is proud to announce the PhD Defense of: Chenkun Jiang! Major Professor: Dr. Theodore Garland Title: “Effects of Total Sleep Deprivation in Selectively Bred High Runner Mice: Voluntary Exercise, Behavior, Body Composition, and Food Consumption” Date/Time: August 21st, 2025 at 1pm-2pm Location: Genomics Auditorium Zoom Meeting ID: 653 815 0060
The Graduate Program in EEOB is proud to announce the PhD Defense of: Matthew Major! Major Professor: Dr. Janet Franklin Title: “Surveying Needlegrass Grasslands to Plan Management Actions and Model Habitat Suitability in Southern Orange County Parks, California” Date/Time: Thursday, June 5th, 2025 at 12 PM - 1 PM Location: Zoom Meeting ID: 955 6135...
The Graduate Program in EEOB is proud to announce the PhD Defense of: Mitchell Coleman! Major Professor: Dr. Louis S. Santiago Title: “Using Functional Traits to Predict Ecological Niche Breadth and Phylogeny in Halophytic Plants” Date/Time: September 5th, 2025 at Friday, 9:00 AM Location: Batchelor Hall Room 2158 Zoom: Meeting ID: 976 4381 4261 Passcode...
The Graduate Program in EEOB is proud to announce the PhD Defense of: April Arquilla! Major Professor: Dr. Wendy Saltzman Title: " Parenthood-associated plasticity of sensory processing in the biparental California mouse ( Peromyscus californicus )" Date/Time: Friday June 6th, 2025 at 2:00PM Location: Darwin Room, Speith Hall Zoom link: https://ucr.zoom.us/j/ 5376928301
Major Professor: Dr. Arun Sethuraman Title: "New Computational Methods to Study Historical Allopolyploidization in Plants" Date/Time: Wednesday May 14th, 2025 at 1:00PM Location: Gold Auditorium, Donald P. Shiley BioScience Center & Zoom link: https://SDSU.zoom.us/j/82815590457
The UC Riverside departments of Evolution, Ecology & Organismal Biology, Botany and Plant Sciences, and Environmental Sciences hosted the inaugural Southern California Conference on Ecological Change on February 14.
SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE - Megalodons might have been longer and thinner than previously thought, according to a new study. The enormous, extinct sharks, scientists now say, grew to between 54 and 80 feet long and weighed about 94 tons. Earlier estimates had them at a maximum of 50 feet.
METRO UK - Experts have said the prehistoric predator the Megaladon was a ‘sleeker’ creature than the one portrayed in the 2018 movie, where a beast akin to a great white shark wrought havoc in the ocean.
ZME SCIENCE - If Meg 3 ever happens, the filmmakers might need to ditch the oversized great white shark trope. A new study published in Palaeontologia Electronica found that the famous megalodon wasn’t just an outsized version of today’s great white shark. Researchers now say this ancient super-predator was a longer, more streamlined animal built...
SCIENCE ALERT - It remains a sad fact of this world that we will never know for certain what the long-lost megalodon truly looked like – but a new study gives us what may be the most accurate reconstruction yet.
POPULAR SCIENCE - If you picture a megalodon, chances are you envision what amounts to a gigantic great white shark. The image is understandable, given almost every depiction of the ancient apex predators across research and pop culture. But last year, an international team put forth a new anatomical design based on their analysis of...
