Three Cheers for E3B alum/instructor Leo Douglas!! Dr. Douglas has been identified by the Council of The Institute of Jamaica for the Musgrave Medal award as distinguished eminence in the field of Science. The Musgrave Medal is Jamaica’s most prestigious honor for scholars in art, science and literature

Congratulations to PhD student Sebastian Heilpern who is one of the 2018 recipients for the Edward Prince Goldman Scholarship in Science!

Team work makes the dream work. Several members of the E3B community collaborated to research the effectiveness and accuracy of Logarithmic scales in presenting ecological data. This study was recently published in Nature Ecology and Evolution . Congratulations!!

As the summer progresses, “The Tick App” created by members of Maria Diuk Wasser’s lab Pilar Fernandez and Meredith VanAcker, has begun to gain traction and was recently featured in the NY Times and Earth Institute’s State of the Planet

E3B Instructor Dr. Leo Douglas took his Biodiversity Conservation class to a Patagonia store to learn about this sustainable clothing franchise and their revolutionary approach to profit based environmentalism and humanitarianism. See more here

We are delighted to acknowledge and congratulate E3B faculty members Dustin Rubenstein, Andres Bendesky and Deren Eaton whom were recently awarded grants via the Columbia provost: sTEAM Fellowship Program – A Team-based, Experiential Learning Research Program for Underrepresented Students (D. Rubenstein) and Principles & Practice in Modern Genomic Data Science (A. Bendesky, D. Eaton)

As a class activity for World Environment Day , E3B adjunct/alum Dr. Leo Douglas took his Conservation Marketing students to the UN to visit PCI Media Impact. An inspiring visit to an organization highly active in environmental, health and social justice.

Cheers to Benton Neil Taylor for successfully completing his Ph.D in Ecological and Evolutionary Biology. Congratulations and welcome to the E3B Alumni cohort!

E3B Alumni/Adjunct lecturer, Dr. Rae Wynn-Grant was awarded an official Citation by Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams and the New York District Attorney’s Office for her contributions to science and community. This is on the heels of a recent publication in The New York Times covering Rae’s research on American Black bears. Congratulations on a well deserved award Dr. Wynn-Grant!! Keep up the excellent work!

Congratulations Class of 2018!!! On this commencement day we celebrate the achievements of all of our graduating E3Bers. See our graduates, friends and family celebrate at the annual E3B Commencement Breakfast

Congrats to E3B alum Eric Yee!! Eric will be starting his PhD at John Hopkins this summer.

Three cheers to Stefanie Siller!!! Stefanie was awarded the 2018 Josselyn Van Tyne Memorial Research Award from AOS in support of research in all areas of avian biology. Great work!