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  • Our Mission

    E3B’s mission is to educate a new generation of scientists and practitioners in the theory and methods of ecology, evolution, and environmental biology. Our educational programs emphasize a multi-disciplinary perspective to understand life on Earth from the level of organisms to global processes that sustain humanity and all life.

  • Our Mission

    E3B’s mission is to educate a new generation of scientists and practitioners in the theory and methods of ecology, evolution, and environmental biology. Our educational programs emphasize a multi-disciplinary perspective to understand life on Earth from the level of organisms to global processes that sustain humanity and all life.

  • Our Mission

    E3B’s mission is to educate a new generation of scientists and practitioners in the theory and methods of ecology, evolution, and environmental biology. Our educational programs emphasize a multi-disciplinary perspective to understand life on Earth from the level of organisms to global processes that sustain humanity and all life.

  • Our Mission

    E3B’s mission is to educate a new generation of scientists and practitioners in the theory and methods of ecology, evolution, and environmental biology. Our educational programs emphasize a multi-disciplinary perspective to understand life on Earth from the level of organisms to global processes that sustain humanity and all life.

From the Field

In November 2024, Columbia University returned ancestral remains to the Rapa Nui people of Easter Island. Their representative, Fr Francisco Nahoe OFMConv., traveled to campus to take possession of a cranium removed from the island in 1916 by an American research expedition. The story of this recovery effort highlights both interdisciplinary teamwork across academic departments at Columbia including Dept E3B, Anthropology and the Rare Book and Manuscript Library and the university’s commitment to the rights and dignity of Indigenous peoples.

See the full story at the following link.

Left to right: Kevin Schlottmann, Head of Archives Processing, Rare Book and Manuscript Library; Dr. Jill Shapiro, Ecology, Evolution & Environmental Biology; Fr. Francisco Nahoe OFMConv, Te Mau Hatu o Rapa Nui; Prof. Zoë Crossland, Anthropology; Prof. Miguel Urquiola, Dean of Social Science

What makes fighting fish so feisty?

E3B Associate Professor Andrés Bendesky was featured in Science!

Bendesky and his team describe how they’ve combined genetics and neuroscience to understand what puts the fight in these betta fish.

Learn more and read the paper HERE.

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