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Emily Minor, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Institute for Environmental Science and Policy
& Biological Sciences
University of Illinois at Chicago
Rm. 3260 SES
EMAIL: eminor@uic.edu

Emily Minor is an Assistant Professor in Biological Sciences and the Institute for Environmental Science and Policy (IESP) at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). Emily is a landscape ecologist with a special interest in urban ecology. Her research has focused on the effects of human development and habitat fragmentation on a number of ecological issues including the distribution of forest birds, the spread of non-native plants, and conservation planning for a variety of species.

Emily earned a B.S. in Biology at the University of South Florida and a Ph.D. in Ecology at Duke University.  She spent two years as a National Parks Ecological Research (NPER) postdoctoral fellow at the University of MD Center for Environmental Science (UMCES) Appalachian Laboratory before joining the UIC faculty in 2008.