May 27 - Smith is being recognized for her research on how to make farms work better for people and the planet, particularly birds.
May 4 - Carter et al. are developing ways to test forest management strategies in simulations before deploying them in the real world.
April 27 - Hsieh, Beaudrot et al. find striking differences in the structure of mammal food webs from one continent to the next.
April 23 - The culprit is not a mystery: “The ticks have spread" to more heavily populated areas of the state, Tsao told USA Today.
April 16 - The award is presented to students who have made significant contributions to global learning, international engagement.
April 9 - From deserts to rainforests, the same factor shapes food webs, according to new study by Lydia Beaudrot et al.
April 6 - Student-led study by Parker, Zarnetske and team aims to predict the future of insect damage in a warming climate.
April 2 - The EEB student will go to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory to study the "unseen" microbial partners of bioenergy crops.
March 26, 2026 - They join 190-plus Spartans elected to the American Association for the Advancement of Science in MSU's history.
March 23 - Could some things not only survive climate shocks, but thrive because of them? Litchman, Wickman, Klausmeier test the idea.
March 19 - A killer microbe like the one in the movie may not be realistic. But life on other planets isn’t at all far-fetched, Schrenk says.
March 4 – What’s the key to beating the biggest problem in 65M years? Zipkin, Beaudrot explain what big datasets mean for species in crisis.
March 3 - They raise some tough questions for protecting biodiversity in the evolutionary “gray zone,” says EEB's Chan Kin Onn.
Feb. 16 - Liu et al. present a framework for understanding how sustainability interventions in one system generate ripple effects in others.
Jan. 21 - The $1.1 million grant will help Sullivan and students study seeds from across the globe to understand grassland biodiversity.
Jan. 5, 2026 - That’s why Braasch and Yuan are introducing “agnology," a data-first approach to cross-species knowledge transfer.
Dec. 4, 2025 - Some bacteria can't be grown in a lab. So how do we study them? Nina Wale has a solution.
Nov. 25, 2025 - MSU Presidential Postdoc Ashish Nerlekar pored over centuries-old stories for clues to an ecosystem's past.
Nov. 15, 2025 - Dobson and Zarnetske find that drought changes the chemicals that goldenrod plants release into the air.
Nov. 12, 2025 - 12 flasks. Almost 100,000 generations. Lenski and Barrick’s work reveals how chance and adaptations intertwine.
Nov. 13, 2025 - Bottles buried nearly 150 years ago offer clues to the long lifespan of seeds, Lowry says. In Science News Explores.
Nov. 3, 2025 - Eric Benbow co-organized the first Global Symposium on Insects for Food, Feed & Food Security in Africa, held in Uganda.
Oct. 28, 2025 - As temperatures rise, animals’ abilities to adapt may be hardwired in their DNA, finds new study by Meek et al.
Oct. 27, 2025 - Litchman, Klausmeier and Wickman score the Outstanding Ecological Theory paper award.
May 3, 2023 - The grants, totaling $87,248, will help launch competitive proposals for significant external resources
April 26, 2023 - In Proceedings of the Royal Society B, scientists seek to predict climate change effects better.
Oct. 19, 2022 - PhD student Emily Liljestrand combines passion for mathematics and computer modeling with marine biology to evaluate long-term sustainability in fisheries.
