teaching – EEBlog

After slogging through 5 exams, each two weeks apart, how did Intro Bio students feel about frequent exams?

February 25, 2021February 25, 2021 Gail B KuhnleinEEBlog

From Dynamic Ecology by Meghan Duffy, a University of Michigan ecologist and professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology When thinking about how to adjust Intro Bio for the realities of Fall 2020 teaching, we made a few […]

Sequential hermaphroditism (or why to be wary of frog DNA)

December 1, 2020December 14, 2020 Gail B KuhnleinEEBlog

The sixth in a series from the blog Gender and Sexuality in Nature, a 2016 UC Davis course organized by UM EEB alumnus Ash Zemenick (UM EEB B.S. 2011, Ph.D. UC Davis 2017) and Jacob Moore (B.S. University of Washington […]

Why are sperm so small? Or, how did anisogamy evolve?

November 5, 2020November 13, 2020 Gail B KuhnleinEEBlog

Anisogamous gametes – a very large egg and a very small sperm

The third in a series from the blog Gender and Sexuality in Nature, a 2016 UC Davis course organized by UM EEB alumnus Ash Zemenick (UM EEB B.S. 2011, Ph.D. UC Davis 2017) and Jacob Moore (B.S. University of Washington […]