Current Students
![Fawn on grass hill overlooking the oval at UM](https://images.apps.umt.edu/storage/umt/center/600/300/biological-sciences/grad-programs/ee/current-students/20170911_christianson_fawn-over-missoula.jpg)
Committees and Reading Groups
President: Heidi Abresch
Prospective Student Coordinator: Evan Stark-Dykema
3 PM Seminar Committee: Sophie Fitzgerald and Bridger Creel
Social Coordinators: Nicole Lopez and Harris Sloan
DEI Committee: Heidi Abresch and Cynthia Ulbing
Animal Behavior reading group
- contact: sophia.fitzgerald@umontana.edu
DEI Working Group
- contact: cynthia.ulbing@umconnect.umt.edu
Pondering Plants reading group
- contact: natalie.dietz@umontana.edu
Endosymbiosis reading group
- contact: heidi.abresch@umontana.edu
Morphology-Physiology-Function reading group
- contact: rosalee.elting@umontana.edu
Events
Cutting-edge research in a collaborative context
EE grad students equal those at any major research university in aptitude, ambition, and accomplishment. They work with internationally-recognized faculty who, like them, have chosen an academic trail-less-traveled but pursue their science with full intensity. They conduct research in our beautiful backyard of the Northern Rockies, in modern labs and facilities on-campus, and at field sites and collaborating labs around the world. Most importantly, they work and learn (and play) together.
![EE Grad Student holding a rhino beetle.](https://images.apps.umt.edu/storage/umt/center/739/492/biological-sciences/grad-programs/ee/current-students/20221024_emlenlab_3044.jpg)
![Grad students in the field at night gathered around a flashlight.](https://images.apps.umt.edu/storage/umt/center/739/492/biological-sciences/grad-programs/ee/current-students/romainphoto.jpg)
![Boat on flathead lake with blue skies](https://images.apps.umt.edu/storage/umt/center/739/492/biological-sciences/grad-programs/ee/ee-images/flbs.jpg)
![Students gathered around a yellow flower in the lab.](https://images.apps.umt.edu/storage/umt/center/739/492/biological-sciences/grad-programs/ee/current-students/20230411_flowerlab_1400_tm.jpg)
![Colorful sunset on flathead lake with a canoe on the water.](https://images.apps.umt.edu/storage/umt/center/739/492/biological-sciences/grad-programs/ee/current-students/20200819_flatheadbio_9911.jpg)