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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

Featuring faculty member Maria Diuk-Wasser.

E3B is excited to announce a new scholarship opportunity for MA students interested in conducting research in integrated forest landscape restoration projects in the Peruvian 

E3B Associate Research Scientist Viorel Popescu was featured in The Wildlife Professional Journal.

She is recognized for elucidating anthropogenic land-use change impacts on environmental sustainability ...

E3B Associate Professor Andrés Bendesky was featured in Science!

Featuring Dr. Matthew Palmer! 

Read about it here. 

E3B Associate Research Scientist Viorel Popescu was featured in The Wildlife Professional Journal.

Check out the profile about his work in Biology at the link below!

Wildlife Professional profile Popescu

We are proud to highlight the work of Dr. Amrita Neelakantan, a PhD alumna of Columbia University’s Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology (E3B), as she supports The Great Elephant Migration that is currently in New York City.

Dr. Neelakantan, Executive Director of the Network for Conserving Central India, is an advocate for human-wildlife coexistence, with over 19 years of experience in conservation science. Her research at Columbia focused on human-nature dynamics in central India, where she continues to work on the intersection of biodiversity conservation and community…