EE Biology at Tulane

Friday at 4pm the Spring 2022 Hathaway lecture will be presented by Drew Lanham. Dr. Lanham is a birder, naturalist, hunter-conservationist and the author of "The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man’s Love Affair with Nature" We hope to see you there!

Tulane's team researching the suitability of sand created from recycled glass for coastal restoration in collaboration with Glass Half Full is hosting two open houses on 2/25 & 2/26 at 1. Stop by 8333 Maple St! nola.com/news/environme…

Professor and Department Chair Keith Clay's new paper in Communications Biology finds that fungal symbionts in some morning glories produce hallucinogenic effects news.tulane.edu/pr/study-shows…

Dr. Hannah Frank receives a very timely grant to study bat-borne diseases that can infect humans news.tulane.edu/pr/tulane-rese…

Check out this article about a local group's mission to use sand made from recycled glass to restore La. coastal erosion - Dr. Van Bael's and Dr. Farrer's labs are studying the sand to see its efficacy. fox8live.com/2021/11/08/goi…

Congrats to Caz Taylor and PHD student Fabiola Rodriguez-Vasquez on their grant awarded to study sustainable coffee farming! news.tulane.edu/pr/tulane-prof…

EEB's Hathaway lecturer is Dr. Catherine Peichel of the University of Bern, Switzerland. The lecture starts at 4pm in the Commons room 300, with a reception to follow in Pocket Park.

Dr. Karubian's Ecuador Scholar's Program is having a symposium October 21st at 5pm in LBC room 212. With a catered reception afterwards! Hope to see you there. Read about the Ecuador Scholar's Program in the TU News: news.tulane.edu/pr/tulane-ecol…

Friday at 4pm New Orleans' own Mark Plotkin @DocMarkPlotkin - renown ethnobotanist and author - will be giving the fall 2021 Conery lecture "Rum, Pirates and Medicinal Plants from New Orleans to the Amazon"

PHD student Mareli Sanchez-Julia of the Van Bael lab wrote a great article about the important role soil plays in mitigating climate change news.mongabay.com/2021/08/soil-a…

Congratulations to Ellie Casement for being awarded the prestigious Goldwater Scholarship! Ellie is an EEB/Anthro dual major who is doing an honor's thesis in the Karubian lab and also works in the Ferris lab. Talk about "scholarship" !! college.tulane.edu/news/2021-gold…

Dr. Cheruiyot's urban agroecology's class is building community gardens around New Orleans! Check out this article from Uptown Messenger about their work uptownmessenger.com/2021/03/studen…

EEB Chair Dr. Keith Clay, veritable cicada expert, was interviewed by Inverse about the impending Brood X emergence... and how to prepare cicadas for eating! inverse.com/science/scienc…

Tomorrow Tulane EEB's Conery Lectureship speaker is DR. ROBIN WALL KIMMERER. Don't forget that signed copies of her book will be available at the Tulane Bookstore as well as Blue Cypress bookstore sse.tulane.edu/eebio/events

Read the Tulane News article about Dr. Kimmerer's lecture that will be held on Friday Feb 26 at 11am! news.tulane.edu/pr/acclaimed-p… Be sure to register if you haven't already. Also, signed copies of her book will be available at the Tulane Bookstore as well as Blue Cypress bookstore

Next Friday! Robin Wall Kimmerer will give a presentation called "What does the Earth ask of us?" Visit sse.tulane.edu/eebio/events to register for the zoom webinar

We're excited to host a talk by Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer on Feb 26!

EEB's Dr. Hannah Frank tells the AP the best way to lessen the chance of disease transmission from bats is to minimize contact with them. "Bats aren’t aggressive - and attacking bats doesn’t help control diseases." apnews.com/article/pandem…

(direct link to the student-produced video youtube.com/watch?v=cjMJbJ…)

Yes Tulane Recycles! But don't forget to Reduce and Reuse as well. news.tulane.edu/news/student-s…