Twitter fight: Birds use social networks to pick opponents
June 8, 2020
University of Cincinnati biologist Elizabeth Hobson studies how animal social networks shape dominance hierarchies in species such as monk parakeets.
UC creates living tribute to Ohio botanist
August 25, 2020
A University of Cincinnati biologist worked with Spring Grove Cemetery and Arboretum to create a fitting tribute to one of America’s legendary conservationists and botanists, E. Lucy Braun.
UC maps genome of agricultural monsters
October 23, 2020
University of Cincinnati biologist Joshua Benoit is unlocking the genetic code of costly agricultural pests to find ways besides pesticides to control them.
UC identifies new species of mosasaur
August 26, 2021
UC assistant professor Takuya Konishi and his student, UC graduate Alexander Willman, named the mosasaur Ectenosaurus everhartorum after paleontologists Mike and Pamela Everhart. The mosasaur inhabited the Western Interior Seaway in what today is western Kansas.
UC biologist earns acclaim for spider research
September 13, 2021
University of Cincinnati biologist George Uetz spent the COVID-19 pandemic receiving honors from his alma mater and an international scientific organization for his contribution to the field of animal behavior.
Unlocking the mysteries of the pecking order
January 12, 2022
University of Cincinnati assistant professor Elizabeth Hobson discusses 100 years of research in dominance hierarchies in the latest issue of the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B.