EEB Collection Tours
The Biodiversity Research Collections (BRC) of the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology reflect the richness of the world’s biodiversity. The mission of the BRC is to support scholarship, education, and outreach at the University, for the state of Connecticut, and the broader global research community.
The UConn Botanical Conservatory (UBC) contains one of the most diverse living teaching plant collections in the United States. This outstanding collection is a core unit of EEB's Collections and is used extensively for teaching and research at UConn.
Tours will be held at 2 and 2:30pm. If you would like to attend both tours, be sure to arrive right at 2pm!
If you would like to join a tour, meet in the Biology/Physics Building Lobby near the giant ant!
Natural History Collections for 21st-Century Research with Pam and Doug Soltis
The Biodiversity Bonanza is being held in honor of the upcoming visit of two renowned members of the National Academy of Sciences, Pam and Doug Soltis from the Florida Museum at the University of Florida.
They will present a talk entitled Natural History Collections for 21st-Century Research from 3:30-4:30 in the Biology/Physics Building Rm 131.
This talk is being held as part of the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology's weekly seminar series.
A reception, exhibits, posters and natural history displays will immediately follow the talk in the Gant Science Complex Light Court.
If you are unable to attend the talk, it will be streaming live via Kaltura and will be linked here after the talk.
Biodiversity Bonanza: Natural History Displays & Reception
Discover the awesome diversity of our collections in the Gant Science Complex Light Court after the Soltis' talk, starting at 4:30pm.
At a reception following the talk engage with faculty, students, and staff in learning about real specimens of some of the world’s most iconic and unusual animals and plants on the planet—including giant butterflies, miniature orchids, a passenger pigeon, the skull of a hippopotamus, carnivorous plants, the skeleton of a platypus, and an herbarium specimen prepared by renowned essayist and nature lover Henry David Thoreau!
The Museum's interactive traveling exhibit "The Legacy of a Lifetime of Collecting: The Carl & Marian Rettenmeyer Story" will also be back on display! Visitors to the exhibit follow along on the journey of a natural history specimen from field research in the jungle to study in the Biodiversity Research Collections.
Students enrolled in the Digital Media & Design "Animating Science" course this semester will showcase work inspired by EEB faculty research on tapeworms, copepods, and the evolution of parasitism.