EECB Fellowships
Each spring semester EECB offers the Maybelle Roth Fellowships, the Watson T. Yoshimoto Fellowships and the Hampton and Meredith Carson Fellowships. The Maybelle Roth Fellowships are administered though the ARCS Foundation, while the Yoshimoto and Carson Fellowships are administered through EECB. All are considered as EECB Fellowships. Applications are reviewed by the EECB Grants and Fellowships Committee. Funds from the fellowships must be used in support of the research and related academic purposes outlined in the application. They are not stipends, and may not be used for tuition or other, non-academic purposes. Each fellowship is awarded only once during a student’s tenure as an EECB student.
Criteria the Committee will use in evaluating fellowship applications include relevance of the research to the EECB goals, importance/originality of the proposed research, feasibility of the project, etc. Involvement of students in the EECB program will also be taken into consideration. Look at the form the Committee uses to guide its reviews of applications (it is available by clicking on the link below), as this form outlines the criteria in more detail. Make sure that you address each criterion appropriately.
If your application includes a request for funding to travel to a conference, it must involve a presentation representing work done while you were in the EECB program.
Fellowship Application Review Form
Maybelle Roth Fellowships
The Maybelle Roth Fellowship is a $5,000 award. Generally two are awarded each year. These fellowships are generally awarded to a relatively senior graduate student (but consult with the EECB Grants and Fellowships Committee for more information and advice). Only doctoral students who are US citizens are eligible. They are awarded in part on the basis of an application for research support, but a major additional criterion on which applications are assessed is the student’s academic accomplishments. A student who is awarded an EECB Maybelle Roth Fellowship is then eligible for the ARCS Student of the Year Award (this is not an EECB award), an additional award based on the merits of her/his accomplishments. The $5,000 award is given directly to the student.
Watson T. Yoshimoto Fellowships
Mr. Yoshimoto, the benefactor of the Yoshimoto Fellowships, gave EECB an endowment that supports up to four fellowships annually (valued at up to $5000) depending on availability of funds. These fellowships are open to any EECB student (you need not be an US citizen) who is doing research on “the conservation of wildlife existing on earth, including the preservation of the habitats where they live”. The quote is taken from the Memorandum of Understanding between Mr. Yoshimoto’s Foundation and UH. They are awarded on the basis of an application for research support and an evaluation of how the proposed research will benefit wildlife conservation. It is important to note that Mr. Yoshimoto’s idea of “wildlife” was lions, bears, elephants, etc. However, while most research projects within EECB can be argued as having some bearing on this, perhaps related to general and/or theoretical principles, your specific Yoshimoto Fellowship statement (see the application form) must make this connection explicit – it is recommended that you ask the Grants Committee or especially Dr. Kaneshiro if you are unsure about this. The award is given directly to the student.
Hampton and Meredith Carson Fellowships
Hamp Carson (1914-2004) was one of the great pioneers of modern evolutionary biology. He was a professor at the University of Hawaii from 1971. Most of his work was on Drosophila and he was a founding member of the "Hawaiian Drosophila Project", pioneering the use of cytogenetics in the study of evolution in this spectacular radiation. He was a great synthesizer, bringing his research in cytology, ecology and genetics to bear on big evolutionary questions. His body of research was extremely influential and highly regarded and in 1979 he was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences, winning the Academy's pretigious Leidy Medal in 1985 for his work on Hawaiian Drosophila. Also a committed educator and member of the EECB faculty, he and his wife Meredith, on their passing, left their Big Island retreat to the University and endowed the Hampton and Meredith Carson Fellowships. They are awarded on the basis of an application for research support, with up to four fellowships available annually (valued at up to $5000) depending on availability of funds. As a reflection of Hamp's broad interests in Ecology, Evolution and Conservation Biology, most research in EECB is eligible for support, although ideally this should be within an evolutionary context. The award is given directly to the student.
EECB Course Requirements
EECB course requirements consist of one course in Ecology, Evolution and Conservation Biology at the 600 or 700 level, at least 2 credits. Courses taken at other universities cannot be used to fulfill EECB course requirements.
In addition, students must complete all degree requirements of the home academic department and participate in EECB activites, particularly the "Evoluncheon" seminar series held weekly.
Generic Course Titles
Generic course titles such as BOT612 Advanced Botanical Problems, the content of which may differ each time it is offered, require evaluation by the EECB curriculum committee. For such courses please submit the syllabus to the EECB chair who will pass it to the curriculum committee to determine whether it will fulfill one or more of the three course requirements. If, after the fact, you wish to know whether a course you took previously will fulfill one of the EECB requirements, please also submit a syllabus to the EECB chair who will again pass it to the curriculum committee for evaluation.
Courses no longer offered
Some of the courses listed below are no longer offered or were 'one-off' courses. They remain on the list for now so that students who took these courses in the past can see which ones fulfill which requirements. However, the course designations for these courses are enclosed in brackets, at least those that are known to no longer be offered.
EECB Approved Courses
| Ecology | Evolution | Conservation Biology |
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| ANTH 606
Anthropology of Infectious Disease (3) |
ANTH 604
Physical Anthropology (3) |
ANTH 620H
Human Ecology (3) |
BIOL 780 Foundations of Evolution and Ecology (4) (to be taken in conjunction with BIOL 781) |
BIOL 780 Foundations of Evolution and Ecology (4) (to be taken in conjunction with BIOL 781) |
[BOT 612 / ANTH 750B] Ecological impact of alien rats Drake/Hunt |
BIOL 781 Foundations of Evolution and Ecology (4) (to be taken in conjunction with BIOL 780) |
BIOL 781 Foundations of Evolution and Ecology (4) (to be taken in conjunction with BIOL 780) |
[BOT 612] Restoration of Manoa Valley |
[BOT 612/ANTH 750B] Drake/Hunt |
BOT 612 Seed Ecology |
[BOT 612]
Fragoso |
| BOT 612 Seed Ecology |
BOT 612 Plants, Animals and Islands |
BOT 612
Ecology and conservation of coastal terrestrial plant and animal communities (2) Drake & Morden (Spring 2014) |
| BOT 612 Plants, Animals and Islands |
[BOT 612] Ranker (Spring 2009) |
BOT 651 |
[BOT 612] Fragoso |
[BOT 612] Drake (Spring 2011) |
BOT 690 / ZOOL 690 Conservation Biology (3) |
BOT 612 Drake (Spring 2011) |
[BOT 612] Keeley/Funk (Spring 2012) |
BOT 750 Seamount Ecology and Fisheries (2-4) Watling (Spring 2009, Spring 2011) |
BOT 612 Barton (Spring 2013) |
BOT 612 Barton (Spring 2013) |
GEOG 750 Research Seminar: Biogeography |
BOT 612 Hynson (Fall 2014) |
BOT 620 Drake (Fall 2008) |
GEOG 752 Research Seminar: Biogeography |
[BOT620] |
BOT 661 |
GEOG 758 Research Seminar: Conservation (3) |
[BOT 620] |
BOT 662 Advanced Systematics (4) |
NREM 691 (002) Foundations of Conservation and Natural Resources (3) Lepczyk (Spring 2010) |
Bot 620 Advances in Plant Ecology Drake (Fall 2008)
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BOT 661 Hawaiian Vascular Plants (3) |
NREM611 Resource and Environmental Policy (3) Oleson (Fall 2013) |
BOT 644 |
BOT 669 [was BOT 675] Molecular Systematics and Evolution (3) |
NREM691 Advanced Topics in NREM: Ecology of Game Animals in Hawaii (2-3) Lepczyk (with Conant) (Spring 2012) |
| BOT 650 Ecology Seminar (2) |
CMB 604 Evolutionary Genetics (2) |
PEPS 675/675L |
| BOT 651 Invasion Biology (3) |
CMB 625 Cann (Spring 2013) |
OCN 621 |
| BOT 652 Population Biology (3) |
CMB650 |
OEST/SOCS 735 Ocean Policy Seminar: Coral Reef Conservation (2) Rieser (Spring 2008) |
| BOT 676 Environmental Physiology Seminar |
CMB 680 |
[UH Hilo TCBES 600] |
| IS 650 Applied Evolutionary Ecology |
[IS 650] Applied Evolutionary Ecology |
ZOOL 714 *Topics in Animal Behavior (variable) |
| MICR 680 Advances in Microbial Ecology (3) |
MICR 671 Advanced Microbial Genetics (3) |
ZOOL 739 Topics in Ecology: Ecology of Game Animals in Hawaii (2-3) Conant (with Lepczyk) (Spring 2012) |
| NREM 680 Ecosystem Ecology (3) [was NREM 691 (002) Litton, Spring 2008] |
PEPS 633 Insect Genetics (3) |
[ZOOL 750] Conservation Biology (3) Kinzie/Wilcox/Conant (2005) |
| NREM 682 (002) Restoration Ecology (3) [was NREM 691 (002) Litton, Spring 2008] |
PEPS 662 Systematics and Phylogenetics (3) |
[ZOOL 750] Environmental Law and Policy for Natural Lum
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| NREM 691 (001) Landscape Ecology (Fall 2008) |
PEPS 691 Biogeography Seminar (2) |
ZOOL 750 Seamount Ecology and Fisheries (2-4) Watling (Spring 2009, Spring 2011) |
NREM 691 (002) Lepczyk (Spring 2010) |
TPSS 615 Quantitative Genetics (3) |
ZOOL 750 Protected Areas in the Ocean, Rationale, Ecology, and Performance (2) Watling (Spring 2012) |
NREM691 Advanced Topics in NREM: Ecology of Game Animals in Hawaii (2-3) Lepczyk (with Conant) (Spring 2012) |
ZOOL 487 (previously ZOOL 497) Molecular Ecology |
ZOOL 750 Marine Conservation Biology and Policy (3) Hixon (Spring 2013) |
NREM691 Advanced Topics in NREM: Forest Nutrition and Biogeochemistry (2-3) Idol (Spring 2013) |
ZOOL 606/606L Principles of Animal Behavior (2/1) |
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| OCN 626 Marine Microplankton Ecology (4) |
ZOOL 621 Evolutionary Ecology (4) |
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| OCN 627 Ecology of Pelagic Marine Animals (3) |
ZOOL 714 |
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| OCN 628 Benthic Biological Oceanography (4) |
[ZOOL 719] |
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OCN 629 Wang and Steward |
[ZOOL 719] |
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| PEPS 671 Insect Ecology (3) |
[ZOOL 739] Theoretical Population Genetics (2-4) Karl (Fall 2007) |
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PEPS 691-004 Haines (Fall 2013) |
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| ZOOL 606/606L Principles of Animal Behavior (2/1) |
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| ZOOL 620 Marine Ecology (3) |
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| ZOOL 621 Evolutionary Ecology (4) |
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| ZOOL 623 Quantitative Field Ecology (3) |
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ZOOL 652 |
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ZOOL 714 |
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[ZOOL 739] |
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[ZOOL 739] Cowie (Fall 2009) |
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ZOOL 739 Topics in Ecology: Ecology of Game Animals in Hawaii (2-3) Conant (with Lepczyk) (Spring 2012) |