E3B MA Student, Soham Mehta, has been selected as Gates Cambridge Scholar for the Class of 2026!
Read about the work he plans to do in his PhD here.
A new study co-authored by Arts and Sciences faculty offers new insights into how individual trees – and consequently forests – regenerate after devastating hurricanes.
Read about it here.
E3B PhD alum, Meha Jain, was the grand prize winner for ASU Prize for Transformational Impact!
Read her essay in Science.
Faux fish and birds are helping researchers decipher some of the rules that govern schooling and squawking, among other social behaviors.
Read the full article by Calli McMurray on The Transmitter, featuring E3B faculty Andrés Bendesky.
Beginning in fall 2026, Columbia School of Professional Studies will launch the Master of Science in Biodiversity Data Analytics—an interdisciplinary online program offered in partnership with Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology. The program will be led by Dr. Viorel Popescu, a distinguished quantitative ecologist and conservation scientist with over 15 years of experience in the field. You can learn more about the M.S. in Biodiversity Data Analytics on its website.
E3B Professor Maria Diuk-Wasser, an expert on ticks, explains her latest research on carriers of Lyme disease and babesiosis. Read about it here!
A study involving members of the E3B Department was published in Nature! From the study: Global inventory reveals nitrogen is in shorter supply than previously thought in natural areas—and it has climate implications.
The paper was led by Carla Reis Ely, and earned her the Gene Likens Award for an Outstanding Publication by an early career scientist, which is awarded by the Biogeosciences section of the Ecological Society of America.
featuring former postdoc Shivani Agarwal.
Featuring MA Dani Pergola who won the Best Communicator award for her presentation, “Hidden Giants: Estimating Hellbender Populations with Artificial Nest Boxes.
featuring Professor Dustin Rubenstein.
A study of starlings in Africa shows that they form long-term social bonds similar to human friendships.
E3B PhD alumni Ben Taylor and adjunct E3B faculty member Winslow Hansen were both elected Early Career Fellows of the Ecological Society of America, one of the top early career honors for ecologists. Read more here: https://esa.org/blog/2025/04/29/ecological-society-of-america-announces-2025-fellows/
Top – Benton N. Taylor, Assistant Professor, Harvard University, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
Bottom – Winslow D. Hansen, Assistant Scientist, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies