Ellen Currano has a joint appointment in Botany and Geology and Geophysics at the University of Wyoming. She received a BS in geology and BA in biology from the University of Chicago and PhD in geosciences from Penn State.
The last two years of her graduate career were spent as a pre-doctoral fellow at the Smithsonian Institution. Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Wyoming, she was an NSF postdoctoral fellow at Southern Methodist University and an assistant professor of geology at Miami University (OH).
Ellen is a paleobotanist who studies the response of ancient plants and insect herbivores to environmental perturbations. Her research focuses on the Early Paleogene (65-45 million years ago) of Wyoming.