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Allyn Nguyen

The EEOB Program is proud to announce the PhD Defense of: Allyn Nguyen!

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...
Chenkun Jiang

The EEOB Program is proud to announce the PhD Defense of: Chenkun Jiang!

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
Matthew Major

The EEOB Program is proud to announce the PhD Defense of: Matthew Major!

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...
Mitchell Coleman

The EEOB Program is proud to announce the PhD Defense of: Mitchell Coleman!

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...

Congratulations to Laura Catano on being awarded a Hellman Fellowship

Please join us in congratulating Dr. Catano on being awarded a Hellman Fellowship!
By UCR News |

At the Heart of Conservation

Biologist Ellie Armstrong uses DNA — and dog photography — to save animals on the brink
By Jules Bernstein |

The EEOB Program is proud to announce the PhD Defense of: April Arquilla!

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

THE JDEB Graduate Program is Proud to Announce the PH.D. Dissertation Defense of Tamsen Dunn

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

CNAS Science Lecture Series 2025

What is an organism, anyway?

UCR hosts inaugural Southern California Conference on Ecological Change

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.

Megalodon Might Have Been Longer and Skinnier Than Previously Thought, Growing Up to 80 Feet

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.
By y Sara Hashemi | Smithsonian Magazine |

Giant Megalodon super shark was actually more like a whale

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.
By By Ben Lynch | METRO UK |

Megalodon Wasn’t a Fat Great White—It Was a Sleek Lean Killing Machine

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...
By By Jordan Strickler | ZME Science |

Megalodon: Scientists Reveal a Crucial Surprise About The Mega-Shark

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.
By By Michelle Starr | ScienceAlert |

Megalodon may have been ‘even longer’ than we thought

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...
By By Andrew Paul | Popular Science |

Big CONGRATULATIONS to Kate Ostevik

for being awarded an NSF CAREER Award!!

Faculty promotions and awards celebrated

UC Riverside honored faculty members for their achievements at the 2025 Faculty Awards Dinner on Thursday, Feb. 6.
By Imran Ghori |

Wildlife Highlights

Watch the fall 2024 highlights from Spasojevic Ecology Lab's camera traps at the San Jacinto Forest Dynamics plot near Idyllwild, California, and the UCR James Reserve.
By Spasojevic Lab |

THE EEOB Graduate Program is Proud to Announce the PH.D. Dissertation Defense of Tesa Madsen-Hepp

Title: "Unraveling the processes of plant community assembly in an era of global change: insights from a dryland ecosystem"

Junior faculty honored for being outstanding teachers

Congratulations Lucy Delaney! To be recognized by UCR’s exclusive Academy of Distinguished Teaching as a junior faculty member, one must be more than a cutting-edge researcher. One must also be an outstanding teacher. Four individuals have been recognized this year as being both.
By Jules Bernstein |
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