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Happy #facultyfriday !! Today we are recognizing Dr. Laura Russo Laura Russo for her outstanding work with plant-pollinator interactions.

Congrats to Jacob Moutouama for an excellent exit seminar to UTK EEB on the ecological drivers of range limitation in species. His work directly contributed to address the tropical bias in ecology that we always talk about. My lab was lucky to have such a brilliant student for 4 yrs

Happy #FacultyFriday !! This week we are celebrating Dr. Nina Fefferman, Dr. Orou Gaoue, and Dr. Xingli Giam for their faculty awards!

Join us UT Knoxville UTK EEB for a hands-on course focusing on #fieldwork & #molecular #biology research using plant #naturalhistory #collections UTK Herbarium - TENN. Students from any college are welcome & #scholarships are available to help offset course costs. Pellissippi State Please RT!

Please encourage your students to apply!

Manuscripts were also less likely to be accepted if authors' institutional affiliations were in Africa, Asia, and Latin America compared to authors from North America, Europe, and Oceania

Happy #facultyfriday !! Today we are recognizing Dr. Orou Gaoue for his amazing work in the program! Check out his most recent publication here doi.org/10.1002/ecy.39…

A special workshop this 25.03.23 on meta-analysis using R, run by Prof. O. GAOUE Orou Gaoue, a Fulbright Scholar from the University of Tennessee Knoxville and visiting Professor at the University of Johannesburg Pavlinka Kovatcheva University of Johannesburg UJ News UJ Faculty of Science kow

Registration is open for Adventures in STEM camp at the University of Tennessee, a camp designed for upcoming 7th-9th graders to encourage interest in #sustainability, #technology, #math, and #science. Girls are strongly encouraged to apply! UT Knoxville UT Arts & Sciences

Happy #FieldworkFriday! Dr. Orou Gaoue is currently leading a group of students (including grad student Laurel Philpott) to study the demographic consequences of plant-ant interactions in Mahogany forests in Benin!!

It is wonderful to see such a recognition of the role and value of international research. We need more of this particularly in part of the world where we tend not to include in our research endeavors. Special funding might be necessary for this. Thank you VP Gretchen Neisler!

Congratulations Lou. Thank you for guidance and support over the years! This is often missed but Lou’s mentoring ability and practical support for diversity and inclusion are to be celebrated.

Happy to share our new research article in People and Nature with Orou Gaoue! We explain how indigenous people select medicinal plants in West-Africa and suggest new methodological guidance in testing the theory of non- random medicinal plants selection. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pa…

One of the most expected #events is coming for those interested in #Biology #Diversity #Science #Teaching #Ecology #Evolution #Education #Ethnobiology #Politics #Conservation The International School of Ethnobiology is coming 🗓️ 11/29/2023 Registration: bit.ly/3FTgh4e

The 3rd NSF funded summer ecological research in Benin will take place next summer. Please encourage your (undergraduate or graduate) students to apply or forward to interested students.

Deadline extended! Apply soon for an amazing research experience! gsscholar.org/apply Share with your networks! SACNAS Field Inclusive Black In Environment ESA_TEK Black in Marine Science Black In National Parks Week

I am super psyched: We've launched the website for ATBC Annual Meeting (atbc2024.org) and the call for Sessions (Symposia and Open Format Sessions) is OUT! SUBMIT your greatest and most recent work on tropical ecosystem science and conservation! See you in Kigali!

Deadline is fast approaching for this NSF funded summer research in Africa. Please encourage your undergraduate or graduate students to apply. RT or forward to interested students. Updated QR code

Call for #specialissue on #Conservation in #Africa. ​Submit your MS by Dec. 2024 Guested by Gbadamassi Gouvide Olawole Dossa Beth Kaplin Rhett Harrison Peter Alele Orou Gaoue ​Any questions? get in touch with us. ​We will be physically in Rwanda this month ATBC to answer any questions live.

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