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Deborah Goldberg
Elzada U. Clover Collegiate Professor and Chair
Ph.D., University of Arizona, 1980
U-M affiliations
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
Contact information
University of Michigan
2019 Kraus Natural Science Bldg.
830 N. University
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1048
Phone: (734) 615-4912
Fax: (734) 763-0544
Email: degold@umich.edu
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Fields of study
Community ecology, plant ecology
Academic background
Deborah Goldberg received her B.A. from Barnard College in 1975 and her Ph.D. from the University of Arizona in 1980, was a postdoctoral fellow at the Kellogg Biological Station of Michigan State University from 1980-1983, and has been on the faculty at the University of Michigan since 1983. She is currently Professor and Chair of the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and served as the Interim Director of the University Herbarium in 2002-3. She has also held appointments as a visiting faculty member at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the University of New Mexico, and the Blaustein Institute for Desert Research at Ben Gurion University in Israel. She has served or is serving on the editorial boards of Ecology and Ecological Monographs, the American Naturalist, American Midland Naturalist, Journal of Vegetation Science, Conservation Ecology, and Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics, as well as the Advisory Council of the International Association of Vegetation Science and the Science Advisory Board of the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis.
Postdoctoral fellows
Miroslav Kummel, Radka Wildova
Graduate students
Emily Farrer
News
Summer cruising
EEB Professor and Chair Deborah E. Goldberg spent July 3 - 15 cruising Norway’s fjords and Russia’s White Sea as the U-M Alumni Association representative. She presented lectures, enjoyed spectacular scenery, and learned a huge amount about the cultural and political history of the region. After the cruise, she took the opportunity to conduct field work in the mountains of central Norway as part of a new collaborative project on climate change and alpine vegetation.
Frontiers Master’s Program team wins diversity award
Congratulations to the Frontiers Master’s Program team for winning the inaugural University of Michigan Distinguished Diversity Leaders Award. The team includes: Professor Deborah Goldberg; Professor Mark Hunter, program chair; Professor Beverly Rathcke, associate chair for graduate studies (at the time); Christy Byks-Jazayeri, graduate coordinator assistant and recruiter. The award was created to honor those who stand out by demonstrating extraordinary commitment and dedication to diversity at U-M. An event is planned for May 5 to recognize the winners. The prize is $2,500 for professional development activities.
Goldberg named Elzada U. Clover Collegiate Professor
Deborah Goldberg has been named the Elzada U. Clover Collegiate Professor by the U-M Board of Regents.
Elzada Clover was a professor in the Department of Botany, a curator at the U-M Botanical Gardens, and taught at the U-M Biological Station. The late Dr. Clover was one of the first two women to successfully raft the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon in 1938. Along with her graduate student, Lois Jotter, she took the trip to pursue her interest in the systematics of succulents.
LSA Collegiate Professorships are chosen based on outstanding scholarship, teaching and service and named for five-year renewable terms. Congratulations!
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