Graduate Program in Ecology, Evolution, and the Environment at the University of Notre Dame
The Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Notre Dame offers a wide-range of research opportunities and graduate coursework in ecology and evolutionary biology, allowing students to excel in field, laboratory, and mathematical biology. Strengths of the program include: studies on the dynamics and divergence of populations, aquatic community and ecosystem ecology, and the impacts of global changes, including climate change, invasive species, and land use change. Our close-knit faculty provides interdisciplinary research opportunities and excellent research mentorship. Our students take advantage of many resources at Notre Dame, including excellent laboratory facilities in the Hank Family Center for Environmental Studies and state-of-the-art instrumentation in our Center for Environmental Science and Technology (CEST; http://nd.edu/~cest/) and the Genomics Core Facility (http://nd.edu/~genomics/). Other hubs of EEE research include the University of Notre Dame Environmental Research Laboratory (UNDERC; http://underc.nd.edu/) with sites located in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and western Montana, the Center for Aquatic Conservation (http://aquacon.nd.edu/), the Interdisciplinary Center for Network Science and Applications (http://icensa.nd.edu/) and the new Notre Dame Environmental Change Initiative (http://environmentalchange.nd.edu/). Numerous opportunities for interdisciplinary interactions among research areas are available, including our GLOBES graduate training program (http://globes.nd.edu/) and potential for collaboration with Notre Dames new Department of Applied and Computational Mathematics (http://acms.nd.edu/). The following faculty members are currently training graduate students in diverse areas of ecology: Beth Archie - behavioral ecology, disease ecology, and population genetics Gary Belovsky - terrestrial ecology and modeling, conservation biology Jeff Feder - ecological and evolutionary genetics Jessica Hellmann - terrestrial ecology, global change biology, biogeography Hope Hollocher - population genetics, speciation, evo-devo, and landscape epidemiology Stuart Jones - aquatic microbial and ecosystem ecology Gary Lamberti - stream ecology and plant-animal interactions David Lodge - ecology of freshwater communities, invasive species Edwin Michael - epidemiology and population ecology of disease transmission Jason McLachlan - ecology of forests and plant populations, statistical modeling, paleoecology Mike Pfrender - ecological genomics, adaptation in natural populations, plasticity Matt Ravosa - evolution and pathobiology of the mammalian skull and musculoskeletal system Ben Ridenhour - evolution and ecology of infectious disease Jeanne Romero-Severson genomics of adaptive variation in natural populations of forest trees Jennifer Tank - stream ecosystem ecology and biogeochemistry All graduate students are funded with competitive stipends. A variety of fellowship opportunities are open to top applicants. For more information regarding the Biology Graduate Program see http://biology.nd.edu/ and http://graduateschoolnd.edu/. The deadline for receipt of all application materials for the Ph.D. program is January 5, 2012, although earlier submission is encouraged to ensure full consideration for available fellowships. Please begin your application by directly contacting faculty of interest.
