In their introduction to the day’s proceedings, Peabody curators Thomas Near, professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and Martha Muñoz, associate professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, made the argument that understanding biodiversity is imperative to the continued well-being of our planet.

Industrialized lifestyles — and feeding infants with formula — are changing the gut microbiome in ways that significantly increase estrogen recycling, potentially affecting people’s health, according to a new Yale study co-authored by Richard Bribiescas, J. Clayton Stephenson/Class of 1954 Professor of Anthropology and Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.

The new members, who have made key contributions in a range of fields, join previously elected fellows in helping to “advance the common good” across the arts, democracy, education, global affairs, and science.

Eric Slessarev, Assistant Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, is the first author of a new study showing that deep-rooted grasses store significantly more carbon than crops with shallow roots, providing important climate benefits.

Ezenwa, who was elected as a lifelong fellow, researches the ecology and evolution of infectious diseases in wild animals.

The Edward Alexander Bouchet Graduate Honor Society (Bouchet Society) recognizes outstanding scholarly achievement and promotes excellence in doctoral education and the professoriate.

David Vasseur, a Yale professor who addresses foundational questions in ecology and evolutionary biology, has been appointed the next head of Saybrook College.

This fall, a popular undergraduate course on invertebrate biology taught by Casey Dunn, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology has been reinvented as a hands-on, field research experience on one of the region’s Thimble Islands.

In a new study, Yale researchers in the lab of Thomas Near, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, used genomic analysis to show when cavefishes lost their eyes, which provides a method for dating cave systems.

Prum, who is the William Robertson Coe Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, appeared on the Science Friday podcast to discuss a recently discovered dinosaur crest and the clues it may provide about dinosaur evolution.