About the Department
The Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior (EEB) is part of the
College of Biological Sciences at the University of Minnesota.
Its mission is to advance knowledge and understanding in the fields of ecology, evolutionary biology, and behavior
by theoretical, experimental, and field research, and to transfer that knowledge through teaching and publication.
The department is one of the University of Minnesota's most highly ranked units. EEB is
home to approximately 30 faculty and over 50 graduate students, most of them in the Ecology, Evolution and Behavior
graduate program. To find out what's new in EEB, visit our EEB News page.
There is one graduate program and one
undergraduate program named Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior.
We are located in the Ecology Building on the
St. Paul campus.
Facilities include two major field stations. At the larger of these, on the shores of
Lake Itasca in northwestern Minnesota, a variety of courses are offered each summer. Modern, winterized
cabins and laboratories at Lake Itasca are available for research at all times. The second station, the 6,000-acre
Cedar Creek Ecosystem Science Reserve, is 30 miles north of the campus and is a
designated site for long-term ecological research. On the St. Paul campus, research laboratories are located in the
Ecology Building, along with the Bell Museum of Natural History’s
outstanding reference collections of Minnesota fauna.
The Ecology, Evolution and Behavior Department is an affiliated department of the St. Anthony Falls Laboratory .
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