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  <description>May 17 - Benbow was recognized for his contributions to aquatic and terrestrial ecology, forensic science and sustainable agriculture.</description>
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  <author>Sierra Jezuit Dragonetti </author>
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  <pubDate>05/04/2026</pubDate>
  <title>How “digital twins” could help predict the fate of a forest</title>
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    <p>May 4 - Carter et al. are developing ways to test forest management strategies in simulations before deploying them in the real world.</p>
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  <author>Robin Smith</author>
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  <pubDate>05/01/2026</pubDate>
  <title>Moving past the mouse – genetic advances inspire new frontiers</title>
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  <description>May 1, 2026 - EEB researchers make compelling cases for leveraging biodiversity's zoo of potential models.</description>
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  <author>Sue Nichols</author>
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  <pubDate>04/27/2026</pubDate>
  <title>Giants that vanished years ago triggered ripple effects that are still felt today</title>
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      <span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; color: #242424;">April 27 - Hsieh, Beaudrot et al. find striking differences in the structure of mammal food webs from one continent to the next.</span>
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  <author>Robin Smith</author>
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  <pubDate>04/23/2026</pubDate>
  <title>Jean Tsao comments on Lyme disease surge in Michigan</title>
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    <p>April 23 - The culprit is not a mystery: “The ticks have spread" to more heavily populated areas of the state, Tsao told USA Today. </p>
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  <author>Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press</author>
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  <pubDate>04/23/2026</pubDate>
  <title>Spartans win prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowships</title>
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  <description>April 23 - A large number of this year's awardees come from labs in MSU's Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior (EEB) Program.</description>
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  <pubDate>04/17/2026</pubDate>
  <title>Uncovering the secret to Australia’s truffle industry</title>
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  <description>April 17 - Truffles have fewer microbial competitors in Australia's soils compared with Europe’s, Bonito et al. find.</description>
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  <author>Robin Smith</author>
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  <pubDate>04/16/2026</pubDate>
  <title>Jana Woerner wins Homer Higbee International Education Award</title>
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    <p>April 16 - The award is presented to students who have made significant contributions to global learning, international engagement.</p>
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  <author>Beth Brauer</author>
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  <pubDate>04/09/2026</pubDate>
  <title>Taking a big picture approach to studying food webs</title>
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    <p>April 9 - From deserts to rainforests, the same factor shapes food webs, according to new study by Lydia Beaudrot et al.</p>
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  <author>Andrei Ionescu</author>
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  <pubDate>04/07/2026</pubDate>
  <title>From decades-long studies of humble grasses, new clues to climate resistance</title>
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  <description>April 7 - 40 years of data on Midwestern prairies reveal that <span>coping with weather extremes isn’t just a numbers game.</span></description>
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  <author>Robin Smith</author>
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  <pubDate>04/06/2026</pubDate>
  <title>Global warming may be a boon for this aggressive prairie plant </title>
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    <p>April 6 - Student-led study by Parker, Zarnetske and team aims to predict the future of insect damage in a warming climate.</p>
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  <author>Robin Smith</author>
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  <pubDate>04/02/2026</pubDate>
  <title>Brandon Kristy wins DOE award for national energy research </title>
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    <p>April 2 - The EEB student will go to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory to study the "unseen" microbial partners of bioenergy crops.</p>
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  <pubDate>04/01/2026</pubDate>
  <title>Jen Roedel awarded for community-engaged teaching and learning</title>
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    <span>April 1 - Roedel leads the Bee Urban Growers (BUG) Project, partnering with small-scale farmers to support pollinators.<br/><br/></span>
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  <pubDate>03/26/2026</pubDate>
  <title>Litchman, Zipkin among nine from MSU named AAAS Fellows</title>
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    <p>March 26, 2026 - They join 190-plus Spartans elected to the American Association for the Advancement of Science in MSU's history.</p>
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  <pubDate>03/23/2026</pubDate>
  <title>Beyond climate resilience: the science of thriving in a chaotic world</title>
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    <p>March 23 - Could some things not only survive climate shocks, but thrive because of them? Litchman, Wickman, Klausmeier test the idea.</p>
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  <pubDate>03/19/2026</pubDate>
  <title>EEB presidential postdoc aims to bring ‘One Health’ and plant health together</title>
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  <description>March 19 - Plant viruses are a threat to global food security. Aguirre studies how they could affect plant health in extreme weather.</description>
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  <author>Robin Smith</author>
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  <pubDate>03/18/2026</pubDate>
  <title>What the movie “Project Hail Mary” gets right about microbes</title>
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    <p>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.</p>
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  <author>Bethany Mauger</author>
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  <pubDate>03/13/2026</pubDate>
  <title>Machine learning helps predict cropland emissions</title>
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  <description>March 13 - Greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture have been hard to pin down. Basso and colleagues hope to change that.</description>
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  <author>Cameron Rudolph</author>
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  <pubDate>03/04/2026</pubDate>
  <title>Meet some of the researchers who are betting on data to save species</title>
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    <p>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.</p>
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  <author>Caleb Hess</author>
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  <pubDate>03/03/2026</pubDate>
  <title>A fanged frog long thought to be one species is revealing itself to be several</title>
  <subTitle>They raise some tough questions for protecting biodiversity in the evolutionary “gray zone,” says EEB's Chan Kin Onn.</subTitle>
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    <p>March 3 - They raise some tough questions for protecting biodiversity in the evolutionary “gray zone,” says EEB's Chan Kin Onn.</p>
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  <author>Robin Smith</author>
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  <title>Can we make society less selfish with help from AI? </title>
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  <description>Feb. 25 - AI agents in a “public goods” game override natural human greed to promote cooperation, Adami et al. find.</description>
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  <author>Stacy Kish</author>
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  <pubDate>02/16/2026</pubDate>
  <title>Connecting the dots from local action to global impact</title>
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    <p>Feb. 16 - Liu et al. present a framework for understanding how sustainability interventions in one system generate ripple effects in others.</p>
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  <author>Shuxin Li</author>
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  <pubDate>02/11/2026</pubDate>
  <title>How teaching molecules to think is revealing what a 'mind' really is</title>
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  <description>Feb. 11, 2026 - “It’s easy to get caught up in the idea that brains are our first example of cognition,” Dolson says. In New Scientist.</description>
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  <author>Conor Feehly</author>
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  <pubDate>02/10/2026</pubDate>
  <title>Meet the winners of the 2026 outstanding student publication awards</title>
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  <description>Feb 10 - Studies of butterfly declines, warming turtles, and shapeshifting leaves were among this year's winners.</description>
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  <author>Chia Hsieh, Nicole Lussier, Becca Nelson</author>
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  <pubDate>02/02/2026</pubDate>
  <title>Student honored for excellence in science communication and outreach </title>
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  <description>Feb. 2 - Rachel Drobnak awarded for her efforts to translate conservation research into useful information for farmers and the public.</description>
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  <pubDate>01/21/2026</pubDate>
  <title>Lauren Sullivan wins prestigious NSF CAREER Award</title>
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    <p>Jan. 21 - The $1.1 million grant will help Sullivan and students study seeds from across the globe to understand grassland biodiversity.</p>
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  <pubDate>01/19/2026</pubDate>
  <title>What makes some species better equipped to survive the climate crisis?</title>
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  <description>Jan. 19, 2026 - By changing their habits, many animals are still hanging on in the face of warming, finds a study by Janzen et al.</description>
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  <author>Robin Smith</author>
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  <pubDate>01/09/2026</pubDate>
  <title>Examining the impact of management practices on Michigan farms</title>
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  <description>Jan. 9, <span>2026 - </span> Sprunger is partnering with farmers across the state to study how to improve soil health.<br/><p> </p></description>
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  <author>Justin Whitmore</author>
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  <title>Translating from fruit flies, mice to humans isn’t always straightforward</title>
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    <p>Jan. 5, <span>2026 - </span> That’s why Braasch and Yuan are introducing “agnology," a data-first approach to cross-species knowledge transfer.</p>
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  <pubDate>12/18/2025</pubDate>
  <title>Something strange happens when you trace how connected the world is</title>
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      <span>Dec. 18, 2025 - </span>
    </span>MSU’s Jack Liu is a lead author in new UN report on the state of the global environment.</description>
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  <author>Robin Smith</author>
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  <pubDate>12/11/2025</pubDate>
  <title>New frontiers for student research, made possible by donors</title>
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    <span>Dec. 12, 2025 - </span>For Bruna Amaral, a PhD student in the Zipkin lab at MSU, an unexpected donation made a difference.</description>
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  <pubDate>12/10/2025</pubDate>
  <title>Five EEB faculty honored by College of Natural Science</title>
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  <description>Dec. 10, 2025 - Haddad, Josephs, Lenski, Lowry, and Zarnetske recognized <span>for their outstanding achievements and service.</span></description>
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  <pubDate>12/08/2025</pubDate>
  <title>Envision EEB expands to shine light on graduate school pathway</title>
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  <description>Dec. 8, 2025 - Online workshops make the program more impactful to this year's 19 participants.</description>
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  <description>May 15, 2025 - IBIO's McGraw among those spreading MSU's word on <span>research, outreach, and partnership.</span></description>
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  <description>May 2, 2025 - Olivia Smith reveals <span>a significant oversight that could limit access for scientists with disabilities.</span></description>
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  <description>April 22, 2025 - New research examines factors that influence the makeup of grassland plant species.</description>
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  <description>April 8, 2025 - Kendall Ash recognized for <span>her commitment to the study of fisheries, limnology, or water quality. </span></description>
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  <description>April 8, 2025 - Grace <span>Smith Vidaurre presented a Classes Without Quizzes lecture on vocal learning.</span></description>
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  <description>April 2, 2025 -  Three EEB members recognized for contributions in two studies in the Environmental Entomology journal.</description>
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  <pubDate>03/27/2025</pubDate>
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  <description>March 27, 2025 - The terrestial ecologist <span>joins more than 180 current and past Spartans elected as fellows.</span></description>
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  <description>March 24, 2025 - The <span>Isaacs' lab contributed nearly 8,000 bee specimens to the A.J. Cook Arthropod Research Collection.</span></description>
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  <description>March 21, 2025 - Kapsar and Zarnetski on the long and short games birds run in life's game. In The Wildlife Society.</description>
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  <title>MSU honors Saunders for science communication</title>
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  <description>March 21, 2025 - Alyssa Saunders recognized by the <span>Office of Outreach and Engagement and the Graduate School.</span></description>
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  <description>March 12, 2025 - Haddad joins UMich authors to examine fragmented habitat and conservation. In <em>Phys.org.</em></description>
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  <description>March 6, 2025 - A study by Zipkin and Haddad shows butterflies are disappearing across the U.S. In <em>New York Times, Science Friday,</em> and more.</description>
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  <description>March 5, 2025 - Soranno part of an MSU team revealing changes in toxic algae blooms.</description>
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  <description>Feb. 25, 2025 - Zarnetske, Youngflesh and Kapsar to a deep data dive into bird life choices. In <em>Ecology Letters.</em></description>
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  <description>Feb. 21, 2025 - <span>scientists outline the urgency to better identify the significant damage of sand extraction. In <em>One Earth</em>.</span></description>
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  <description>Feb. 17, 2025 - Lydia Beaudrot, with Jack Liu comments, on reserves' ability to protect wildlife. In Spain's El Pais.</description>
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  <title>Award pushes biodiversity field research forward</title>
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  <description>Feb. 11, 2025 - Louise Mead earns a Richard and Susan Hill Fund award to advance field experience for students.</description>
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  <title>Monarch butterfly population in Western U.S. nears record low</title>
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  <description>Feb. 10, 2025 - Elise Zipkin's work referred to in discussion about causes of epic decline. In CBS News.</description>
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  <description>Oct. 26, 2023 - New methodology provides insights to better protect data-deficient species. In the <em>Journal of Animal Ecology.</em></description>
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  <description>Aug. 24, 2023 - R<span>esearch by Conner and Waterman suggests natural selection has the power to keep things the same. In New Phytologist, and Evolution. </span></description>
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  <description>August 16, 2023 - Sam Ayebare leads first steps to understanding how so many birds can coexist in a biodiversity hot spot.</description>
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      <li>Published in <em>Proceedings of the Royal Society B.</em></li>
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  <description>July 6, 2023 - Presidential Postdoc Casey Youngflesh shows an alarming mismatch for birds. In <em>PNAS</em>.</description>
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  <title>The U.S. is committed to conservation... Now what?</title>
  <description>Jan. 11, 2023 - A research team, including Mariah Meek, in a journal article, informs how to reach conservation goals in the face of climate change.</description>
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  <title>Animals Shape-Shift in Response to a Warming World</title>
  <description>Jan. 9, 2023 - An EEB Presidential Postdoc in <em>Science </em>weighs in about whether species’ adaptations can keep pace with climate change.</description>
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  <title>Guiding conservation with innovations and a local touch</title>
  <description>Dec. 5, 2022 - EEB biologists in <em>BioScience</em> underscore local adaptation in pathways to second chances when climates change .</description>
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  <description>Dec. 2, 2022 - Veronica Frans and Jack Liu look at what it takes to protect 30% of the Earth's surface in advance of the international biodiversity conference.</description>
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  <pubDate>11/30/2022</pubDate>
  <title>Studying kestrels' superpower to shoo pest birds</title>
  <description>Nov. 30, 2022 - An MSU team led by Olivia Smith studies  kestrels in Northwest Michigan cherry orchards and their effects on food safety.</description>
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  <pubDate>11/30/2022</pubDate>
  <title>Two land CDC grant to tackle tick- and mosquito-borne diseases</title>
  <description>Nov. 30, 2022 - Jean Tsao and Ned Walker will be supported by $1.3M in CDC funding to target the Great Lakes region, part of larger $10M project.</description>
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    <img src="" alt="Two land CDC grant to tackle tick- and mosquito-borne diseases"/>
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  <pubDate>11/22/2022</pubDate>
  <title>PhD student honored for skill communicating science</title>
  <description>Jamily Ramos de Lima of the Braasch lab is honored at the Society for Developmental Biology Midwest Conference</description>
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  <pubDate>11/20/2022</pubDate>
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  <description>Nov. 20, 2022 - Scientists have found a new and better way using remote sensing to understand where coastal dead zones are and predict changes.</description>
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    <img src="" alt="Satellites cast critical eye on coastal dead zones"/>
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  <pubDate>11/17/2022</pubDate>
  <title>More biodiversity isn't a silver bullet for ecosystem restoration</title>
  <description>Nov. 17, 2022 - Experts and a unique research site show how the land's history of being restored shapes the success of conservation efforts</description>
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    <img src="" alt="More biodiversity isn't a silver bullet for ecosystem restoration"/>
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  <pubDate>11/16/2022</pubDate>
  <title>Liu and Isaacs ranked amongst top-cited researchers</title>
  <description>Nov. 16, 2022 - Jack Liu and Rufus Isaacs make this year's Clarivate Highly-Cited Researchers list, amongst 6,938 worldwide.</description>
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  <pubDate>11/11/2022</pubDate>
  <title>Results-oriented commitment to DEI earns KBS honor</title>
  <description>Nov. 11, 2022 - Kellogg Biological Station, rich in EEB faculty and student members, declared a model for its quantifiable commitment to diversity.</description>
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    <img src="" alt="Results-oriented commitment to DEI earns KBS honor"/>
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  <pubDate>11/08/2022</pubDate>
  <title>Meet the frogs overcoming extinction</title>
  <description>Nov. 8, 2022 - Researchers confirm that many harlequin frogs once believed to be extinct are, in fact, persisting. Stories in <em>Science</em> and <em>Science News.</em></description>
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  <pubDate>11/04/2022</pubDate>
  <title>Elite scientists outline character traits that make excellent science</title>
  <description>Nov. 4, 2022 - Philosopher Robert Pennock leads a survey to find what core values are crucial to good science. Top virtue: Honesty.</description>
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  <pubDate>10/31/2022</pubDate>
  <title>Notes from Holekamp Lab in Kenya: Meet the south clan</title>
  <description>Oct. 31, 2022 - The group is collaring all hyenas 18 months or older in a single clan to understand how communication drives coordination and decision-making.</description>
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  <pubDate>10/25/2022</pubDate>
  <title>Teamwork, in nature and the lab, teaches about climate change</title>
  <description>Oct. 25, 2022 - Kevin Liu and Elizabeth Heath-Heckman explore impacts on microbes and their symbiotic relationships with host animals to better inform climate models.</description>
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    <img src="" alt="Teamwork, in nature and the lab, teaches about climate change"/>
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  <pubDate>10/19/2022</pubDate>
  <title>Taking stock of fisheries sustainability with models</title>
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    <p>Oct. 19, 2022 - PhD student Emily Liljestrand combines passion for mathematics and computer modeling with marine biology to evaluate long-term sustainability in fisheries.</p>
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  <pubDate>10/13/2022</pubDate>
  <title>EEB announces second year of digital media fellows</title>
  <description>Oct. 13, 2022 - EEB PhD students Bruna Amaral and Ayley Shortridge will embark on a year-long experience of training and creating in the field of science communication.</description>
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  <pubDate>10/10/2022</pubDate>
  <title>Boosting endangered butterfly confronting climate change</title>
  <description>Oct. 10, 2022 - Three EEB members will explore the potential for genetic rescue to increase population growth and adaptive potential in the endangered Mitchell's satyr butterfly.</description>
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    <img src="" alt="Boosting endangered butterfly confronting climate change"/>
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  <pubDate>10/07/2022</pubDate>
  <title>Which countries have the most interconnected wildlife preserves</title>
  <description>Oct. 7, 2022 - KBS's Nick Haddad weighs in on a story in <em>Scientific American</em> exploring important connections between protected animal habitats.</description>
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  <pubDate>10/06/2022</pubDate>
  <title>PhD student contributes new tool to predict, plan for sea lions</title>
  <description>Oct. 6, 2022 - Veronica Frans of CSIS developed an integrated species distribution model database map about sea lions to help New Zealand policymakers plan for their return</description>
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  <pubDate>10/05/2022</pubDate>
  <title>Miesel helps to reimagine fire science for the Anthropocene</title>
  <description>Oct. 5, 2022 - Jessica Miesel of plant, soil and microbial sciences joins a multidisciplinary group of scientists across the world to examine fire regimes. Published in PNAS Nexus.</description>
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  <pubDate>10/03/2022</pubDate>
  <title>MSU at forefront of sea lamprey eradication efforts</title>
  <description>Oct. 3, 2022 - The Great Lakes Fishery Commission supports the work of Weiming Li's group with a new lab to study lamprey biology.</description>
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  <pubDate>09/26/2022</pubDate>
  <title>Envision EEB shows possibilities, delivers skills, builds relationships</title>
  <description>Sept. 26, 2022 - DEI weekend showcased the benefits and strengths of the EEB community to early career scholars from across the country, building skills and relationships.</description>
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  <pubDate>09/21/2022</pubDate>
  <title>Jack Liu accepts global sustainability award with message of hope</title>
  <description>Sept. 21, 2022 - Jianguo "Jack" Liu accepts his Gunnerus Sustainability Science Award in Norway with an address about pandas, people and hope for the future.</description>
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  <pubDate>09/21/2022</pubDate>
  <title>Ornithology journal Lindell leads soars in impact rankings</title>
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    <em>Sept. 21, 2022 - Ornithological Applications, </em>edited by Catherine Lindell, has been ranked as the top scientific journal globally out of 29 journals in the ornithology category.</description>
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  <pubDate>09/01/2022</pubDate>
  <title>Reading global catastrophes needs a new lens for sharp solutions</title>
  <description>Aug. 31, 2022 - If the global community doesn’t learn to spot and address the short- and long-term changes, both harm and opportunity can be unchecked.</description>
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  <pubDate>08/29/2022</pubDate>
  <title>Long-drought experiment bad news for plants and climate change</title>
  <description>Aug. 29, 2022 - KBS/IBio's Sarah Evans weighs in in a <em>Science </em>story about the global toll drought is having on plant growth.</description>
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    <img src="" alt="Long-drought experiment bad news for plants and climate change"/>
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  <pubDate>08/25/2022</pubDate>
  <title>EEB student's work about getting data to do more for biodiversity</title>
  <description>Aug. 25, 2022 - A new model extracts more information than ever from camera traps and other data sources to inform ecology studies and conservation efforts.</description>
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    <img src="/_assets/images/news/2022/data-to-do-more.png" alt="EEB student's work about getting data to do more for biodiversity"/>
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  <pubDate>08/25/2022</pubDate>
  <title>Spotting human-driven snags in global sustainability quest</title>
  <description>Aug. 25, 2022 - A new paper in <em>Ecology and Society</em> shows how people's everyday lives can have significant global consequences.</description>
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  <pubDate>08/19/2022</pubDate>
  <title>Bringing Indigenous wild rice research closer to campus</title>
  <description>Aug. 19, 2022 - Jen Owen works with AgBioResearch to create outreach and education programs while encouraging field work near East Lansing.</description>
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<searchtags/></item><item href="/news/three-eeb-scientists-will-help-build-nsf-biology-integration-institutes.aspx" dsn="blogs">
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  <pubDate>08/16/2022</pubDate>
  <title>Three EEB scientists will help build NSF Biology Integration Institutes</title>
  <description>Aug. 16, 2022 - Anne Bronikowski, Elizabeth Heath-Heckman and Kevin Liu are leaders in two National Science Foundation Biology Integration Institutes.</description>
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    <img src="" alt="Three EEB scientists will help build NSF Biology Integration Institutes"/>
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<searchtags/></item><item href="/news/how-a-little-prairie-can-help-farms-and-nature.aspx" dsn="blogs">
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  <pubDate>07/29/2022</pubDate>
  <title>How a little prairie can help farms and nature</title>
  <description>July 29, 2022 - A 30+ year study shows converting strips of farmland to prairie brings environmental benefits without sacrificing crop yields.</description>
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    <img src="" alt="How a little prairie can help farms and nature"/>
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  <homehero/>
  <pubDate>07/27/2022</pubDate>
  <title>Panda success may appear in US/China science summit</title>
  <description>July 27, 2022 - Jack Liu's research collaborations that helped move pandas from endangered status has applications for major US-China summit.</description>
  <author/>
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    <img src="" alt="Panda success may appear in US/China science summit"/>
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<searchtags/></item><item href="/news/haddad-on-monarch-butterflies-making-an-endangered-list.aspx" dsn="blogs">
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  <pubDate>07/22/2022</pubDate>
  <title>Haddad on monarch butterflies making an endangered list</title>
  <description>July 22, 2022 - Nick Haddad blankets the news with concern about the rate of population decline for monarch butterflies, rated two steps from extinction by scientists.</description>
  <author/>
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    <img src="" alt="Haddad on monarch butterflies making an endangered list"/>
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<searchtags/></item><item href="/news/identifying-farming-strategies-for-global-agricultural-sustainability.aspx" dsn="blogs">
  <homehero/>
  <pubDate>07/21/2022</pubDate>
  <title>Identifying farming strategies for global agricultural sustainability</title>
  <description>July 21, 2022 - Olivia Smith's quest for the sweet spot of farming strategies producing sufficient food, least environmental harm, and improved natural, social, and human wellbeing.</description>
  <author/>
  <hero-image>
    <img src="" alt="Identifying farming strategies for global agricultural sustainability"/>
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  <pubDate>07/12/2022</pubDate>
  <title>Monitoring wildlife to understand biodiversity changes</title>
  <description>July 12, 2022 - The Zipkin lab is helping conservationists optimize data collection to answer complex biodiversity questions at large scales. Work is published in <em>Ecological Applications.</em></description>
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  <title>Society honors Mittan's talk about adaptation during range expansion</title>
  <description>July 5, 2022 - Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow Cinnamon Mittan wins the W.D. Hamilton Award from the Society for the Study of Evolution at the Evolution 2022 meeting.</description>
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  <pubDate>06/27/2022</pubDate>
  <title>Evolution-in-a-flask experiment moves, but not the science</title>
  <description>June 27, 2022 - After 34 years and some 75,000 generations, the prolific and fascinating bacteria leave the Lenski lab to continue evolving in Texas. MSU, however, is hardly letting go.</description>
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  <pubDate>06/27/2022</pubDate>
  <title>Revealing 'evolution's solutions' to aging</title>
  <description>June 24, 2022 - In a <em>Science </em>publication, EEB faculty lead the largest-of-its-kind study on aging, longevity in reptiles and amphibians, helping identify species that essentially do not age.</description>
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  <title>Bacteria bred for 2000 generations settle evolution mystery</title>
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    <em>June 22, 2022 - New Scientist Magazine</em> covers MSU's long-running evolution experiment that suggests existing variation makes a smaller contribution to evolution than thought.</description>
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  <pubDate>06/16/2022</pubDate>
  <title>2 from EEB named to American Academy of Microbiology</title>
  <description>June 16, 2022 - Professor Christopher Waters and EEB alumnus Vaughn Cooper are now fellows in the group within the American Society for Microbiology.</description>
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  <pubDate>06/15/2022</pubDate>
  <title>MSU named charter member of Northern Institute of Applied Climate Science</title>
  <description>June 15, 2022 - EEB's Rich Kobe, forestry department chair, led MSU to join the Northern Institute of Applied Climate Science as a charter member.</description>
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  <pubDate>06/14/2022</pubDate>
  <title>Legendary bacterial evolution experiment enters new era</title>
  <description>June 14, 2022 - Rich Lenski's renowned 34-year-old evolution in a flask experiment is moving cross country, but carrying a lot of Spartan luggage. A Q&amp;A is in <em>Nature.</em></description>
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  <title>EEB engineer scores $458K of early career support from NSF</title>
  <description>June 2, 2022 - Kevin Liu is named a recipient of the prestigious NSF Early Career Development (CAREER) Awards for exploring evolutionary insights via phylogenies.</description>
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  <pubDate>06/02/2022</pubDate>
  <title>Shocker! Research reveals how fish evolved electric organs</title>
  <description>June 2, 2022 - Jason Gallant of Integrative Biology is part of a team that helped discover a small genetic tweak in electric fish that has implications for most vertebrates, including humans</description>
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    <img src="" alt="Shocker! Research reveals how fish evolved electric organs"/>
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  <pubDate>05/27/2022</pubDate>
  <title>New tool to detect species declines can help protect biodiversity</title>
  <description>May 27, 2022 - The Zipkin lab has developed a unique model to analyze declining biodiversity and understand the changes within individual species and across broader wildlife communities.</description>
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    <img src="" alt="New tool to detect species declines can help protect biodiversity"/>
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  <pubDate>05/26/2022</pubDate>
  <title>What guppy guts can teach us about evolution</title>
  <description>May 26, 2022 - Research by Sarah Fitzpatrick and Sarah Evans reveals how Trinidadian guppies - however humble - can help understand the gut microbiome as organisms evolve.</description>
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  <pubDate>05/25/2022</pubDate>
  <title>Beyond the gut: Scientists explore big impacts of nature's tiniest worlds</title>
  <description>May 20, 2022 - Master's student and EEB Digital Fellow Katrina Culbertson has the guts to work with core faculty members to understand the "other" beneficial microbes in the natural world.</description>
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  <pubDate>05/25/2022</pubDate>
  <title>Scribner on team to bring lake sturgeons back to Michigan's waters</title>
  <description>May 25, 2022 - Fisheries and wildlife's Kim Scribner is on a team working to help restore the population of lake sturgeon - an ancient and vital fish species - in Michigan's Black River.</description>
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  <pubDate>05/23/2022</pubDate>
  <title>Save the umbrella: an alternative way forward for conservation</title>
  <description>May 23, 2022 - PhD candidate and EEB Digital Fellow Beth Gerstner works with EEB core faculty to explore new ways to shape conservation beyond the cute and fuzzy.</description>
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  <pubDate>05/17/2022</pubDate>
  <title>Plant biologists honors Josephs with Early Career Award</title>
  <description>May 17, 2022 - The American Society of Plant Biologists honors Assistant Professor Emily Josephs for her work in the evolutionary genetics of wild and domesticated plants.</description>
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    <img src="" alt="Plant biologists honors Josephs with Early Career Award"/>
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  <pubDate>05/16/2022</pubDate>
  <title>Nature Food paper upends food trade and biodiversity assumptions</title>
  <description>May 16, 2022 - The work of fisheries and wildlife's Jianguo "Jack" Liu and a graduate student examines the complexities of global food trade and the impacts on biodiversity hotspots.</description>
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    <img src="" alt="Nature Food paper upends food trade and biodiversity assumptions"/>
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  <pubDate>05/16/2022</pubDate>
  <title>Sarah Evans named to prestigious Earth Leadership Program cohort</title>
  <description>May 16, 2022 - Evans will be one of 22 sustainability scientists enabled to work collaboratively with diverse stakeholders and become agents of change within and beyond their universities.</description>
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    <img src="" alt="Sarah Evans named to prestigious Earth Leadership Program cohort"/>
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  <pubDate>05/11/2022</pubDate>
  <title>Research helps farmers use birds to manage pests</title>
  <description>May 11, 2022 - Research by Catherine Lindell and Olivia Smith aims to alleviate confusion about how to take advantage of benefits some birds provide and discourage damage from pest birds.</description>
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  <pubDate>05/01/2022</pubDate>
  <title>Three EEB faculty honored with All-University Awards</title>
  <description>May 1, 2022 - EEB faculty Jeffrey Conner and Chris Waters celebrated as William J. Beal Outstanding Faculty and Marjorie Weber honored with the Teacher-Scholar Award.</description>
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  <pubDate>04/28/2022</pubDate>
  <title>Scientists say war devastation stretches across natural world</title>
  <description>April 28, 2022 - Jack Liu joins others in <em>Nature </em>noting the Russia-Ukraine war will affect biodiversity and the environment far beyond the war zones, and calls for accountability.</description>
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  <pubDate>04/26/2022</pubDate>
  <title>Seven seed grants to support EEB faculty initiatives</title>
  <description>April 26, 2022 - The second year of seed grants - totaling nearly $95,000 - will support a range of costs associated with launching competitive proposals for significant external resources.</description>
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  <pubDate>04/25/2022</pubDate>
  <title>NSF grant to create an accessible supercomputer</title>
  <description>April 25, 2022 -  An MSU team, including Phoebe Zarnetske, wins a $399,865 Campus Cyberinfrastructure Planning Grant to open doors to advanced computational capacity.</description>
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  <pubDate>04/25/2022</pubDate>
  <title>The sky's limit: Making aerial wildlife surveys reliable</title>
  <description>April 25, 2022 - Aerial surveys are an efficient survey platform; however, they can yield unreliable data. Elise Zipkin and Kayla Davis outline a three-pronged approach to tackle the problem.</description>
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  <pubDate>04/19/2022</pubDate>
  <title>ESA honors Liu with highest honor for ecological contributions</title>
  <description>April 19, 2022 - The Ecology Society of America honors Jianguo "Jack" Liu with the Eminent Ecologist Award for building interdisciplinary bridges in sustainability science.</description>
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  <pubDate>04/12/2022</pubDate>
  <title>EEB fellowships secure summer research for 16 graduate students</title>
  <description>April 12, 2022 - EEB's competitive fellowships provide financial support, allowing students to focus on their research. This year's awardees are an outstanding group from three colleges.</description>
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  <pubDate>04/11/2022</pubDate>
  <title>EEB postdoc Smith shoots, scores in bird-related news</title>
  <description>April 11, 2022 - EEB Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow Olivia Smith supplements publications by writing, podcasting and photographing her way into four news items.</description>
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  <pubDate>04/11/2022</pubDate>
  <title>In soil, death doesn't stop the spread of antibiotic resistance</title>
  <description>April 11, 2022 - A team of EEB scientists show how dead bacteria in soil can introduce antibiotic resistance to live bacteria, which has big potential implications for farms.</description>
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  <pubDate>04/08/2022</pubDate>
  <title>Applying the lake trout genome in Lake Michigan</title>
  <description>April 8, 2022 - In an NPR podcast, EEB professor Kim Scribner and his lab discuss how recent efforts to map the lake trout genome might help the dwindling Lake Michigan population.</description>
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  <pubDate>04/08/2022</pubDate>
  <title>How severe will this year's tick season be?</title>
  <description>April 9, 2022 - Jean Tsao weighs in on NBC TODAY as ticks expand their reach, even more of the country will have to think about how to stay safe from tick-borne diseases.</description>
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  <pubDate>03/30/2022</pubDate>
  <title>Russia's action expands what's defined as "local" in the Arctic</title>
  <description>March 30, 2022 - Jianguo "Jack" Liu and Veronica Frans are two of the authors of an <em>Ambio </em>paper exploring the complex interactions that affect the Arctic's environment and people.</description>
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  <pubDate>03/29/2022</pubDate>
  <title>EEB's Presidential Postdocs embrace interdisciplinary exploration</title>
  <description>March 29, 2022 - The second cohort of MSU's Presidential Postdoctoral Fellows in EEB brings scholars who will encompass five disciplines for "collaboration, innovation and inclusivity."</description>
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  <pubDate>03/06/2022</pubDate>
  <title>The Rio pearlfish: big lessons from a little fish</title>
  <description>Mar. 6, 2022 - Andrew Thomson, Ingo Braasch, and their team publish the complete genome of the Rio pearlfish, which may further understanding of human health.</description>
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  <pubDate>03/03/2022</pubDate>
  <title>EEB researchers address big questions in climate change</title>
  <description>Mar. 3, 2022 - EEB members, including Kyla Dahlin and Phoebe Zarnetske, are working on some of the major challenges related to a changing climate and its impact on society.</description>
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    <img src="/_assets/images/news/2022/big-questions.jpg" alt="EEB researchers address big questions in climate change"/>
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  <pubDate>02/18/2022</pubDate>
  <title>Exhibit explored the art of archaeology</title>
  <description>Feb. 18, 2022 - A photography exhibit at the MSU Union Art Gallery displays the work of EEB digital media specialist Daniel Trego, which reveals the art in an archaeology dig in Greece.</description>
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  <pubDate>02/15/2022</pubDate>
  <title>Jessica Miesel receives $750K to investigate soil health</title>
  <description>Feb. 15, 2022 - Jessica Miesel and her team have received a $750,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture to study how wildfires affect soil health.</description>
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    <img src="" alt="Jessica Miesel receives $750K to investigate soil health"/>
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  <pubDate>02/10/2022</pubDate>
  <title>A new model links mate selection to species survival</title>
  <description>Feb. 10, 2022 - In a new paper, Michigan State University evolutionary biologist Janette Boughman shows that the process of choosing a mate could be very important to the survival of the species.</description>
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  <title>Kendra Spence Cheruvelil interim dean of Lyman Briggs College</title>
  <description>Feb. 10, 2022 - Kendra Spence Cheruvelil, professor in Lyman Briggs College and the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife. has been approved as the interim dean of Lyman Briggs College.</description>
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  <pubDate>02/03/2022</pubDate>
  <title>Ofria named AAAS Fellow in record year for Spartan inductees</title>
  <description>Feb. 3, 2022 - EEB core faculty member Charles Ofria joins nine Spartans inducted - the largest number of American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellows in 10 years.</description>
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  <title>Finding the right balance to benefit birds, farmers and everyone else</title>
  <description>Jan. 20, 2022 - Work determines how best to act as matchmakers between birds and farmers to create long-term, mutually beneficial relationships to increase sustainability.</description>
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  <title>The effects of irrigation to the plight of farmland birds</title>
  <description>Jan. 19, 2022 - Xabier Cabodevilla and his team found that 55 percent of common bird species in northern Spain decreased in their occurrence rates as a result of irrigation.</description>
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  <pubDate>01/17/2022</pubDate>
  <title>Climate change center combines indigenous and western knowledge</title>
  <description>Jan. 17, 2022 - Michigan State University and the Sault Ste Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians are fighting climate change while preserving Anishinaabeg cultural practices.</description>
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  <pubDate>01/12/2022</pubDate>
  <title>Postdoc's work pinpoints which birds pose food safety risk to crops</title>
  <description>Jan. 12, 2022 - A paper by postdoc Olivia Smith and colleagues at UC Davis shows farmers' concerns over foodborne risk from birds may not be as severe as once thought.</description>
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  <pubDate>01/10/2022</pubDate>
  <title>Grant to expand EEB's Preview Weekend</title>
  <description>Jan. 10, 2022 - The DEI committee, along with Kellogg Biological Station members wins a Creating Inclusive Excellence Grant to envision a ramping up the successful graduate preview weekend.</description>
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  <pubDate>01/06/2022</pubDate>
  <title>PhD student has The Conversation about modeling conservation</title>
  <description>Jan. 6, 2022 - CSIS PhD student Veronica Frans discusses broader uses for her new ways to model habitat for creatures returning to a home it will share with people.</description>
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  <pubDate>12/22/2021</pubDate>
  <title>Scribner wins best genetics paper in American Fisheries Society journal</title>
  <description>Dec. 22, 2021 -Work by Kim Scribner of fisheries and wildlife and integrative biology was honored with others for best genetics paper published in an American Fisheries Society journal.</description>
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  <pubDate>12/06/2021</pubDate>
  <title>Fitzpatrick and Borges craft a tale of growing up guppy in Ecology Letters</title>
  <description>Dec, 6, 2021 - EEB IBIO/KBS researchers have added an important piece to nature’s ecological and evolutionary puzzle with an assist from Trinidadian guppies.</description>
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    <img src="" alt="Fitzpatrick and Borges craft a tale of growing up guppy in Ecology Letters"/>
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  <pubDate>12/02/2021</pubDate>
  <title>Got Data? Instructors surveyed on using and teaching data science</title>
  <description>Dec. 2, 2021 - Nate Emery and collaborators are exploring how to best empower instructors to incorporate data science into biology and environmental science courses.</description>
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  <pubDate>12/01/2021</pubDate>
  <title>The health impact of the global meat trade</title>
  <description>Dec. 1, 2021 - Jianguo "Jack" Liu and colleagues point out in <em>BMJ Global Health</em> that producing red meat for export has environmental costs and harms consumers’ health.</description>
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    <img src="" alt="The health impact of the global meat trade"/>
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  <pubDate>11/29/2021</pubDate>
  <title>Two EEB core faculty recognized in '2021 Highly Cited' list</title>
  <description>Nov. 29, 2021 - The Web of Science Group recognized MSU's Rufus Isaacs and Jianguo “Jack” Liu as two of the world's most influential researchers in the '2021 Highly Cited' list.</description>
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  <pubDate>11/24/2021</pubDate>
  <title>Benbow named CANR International Programs Global Scholar</title>
  <description>Nov. 24, 2021 - MSU researcher Eric Benbow has been named CANR Global Scholar and will join the program designed to enhance global engagement of early-career scholars.</description>
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  <pubDate>11/22/2021</pubDate>
  <title>Dahlin secures $1.1M NSF CAREER award</title>
  <description>Nov. 22, 2021 - Kyla Dahlin will lead research that takes a new approach to unravel the challenge of measuring carbon uptake at large scales with a prestigious CAREER award from NSF.</description>
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  <pubDate>11/17/2021</pubDate>
  <title>Preserving genetic diversity gives wild populations their best chance</title>
  <description>Nov. 17, 2021 - Sarah Fitzpatrick was part of a team that found that maintaining genetic variation is critical to allowing wild populations to adapt to future environmental changes.</description>
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  <pubDate>11/09/2021</pubDate>
  <title>PhD student guides New Zealand's coexistence with sea lions</title>
  <description>Nov. 9, 2021 - PhD student Veronica Frans' work to identify and map viable habitat for New Zealand sea lions, which are conservation success story, is featured in the New York Times.</description>
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  <pubDate>10/27/2021</pubDate>
  <title>Zipkin awarded Fulbright Senior Scholar Fellowship</title>
  <description>Oct. 27, 2021 - As a Fulbright Senior Scholar, EEB Director Elise Zipkin will build statistical modeling capacity to assess and predict the effects of climate change on species in Israel.</description>
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  <pubDate>10/25/2021</pubDate>
  <title>Two EEB members win first plant biology postdoc honors</title>
  <description>Oct. 25, 2021 - Nate Emery and Ash Zemenick were the winners of the inaugural Plant Biology Outstanding Postdoctoral Award, and both are mentored by EEB core faculty.</description>
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  <pubDate>10/21/2021</pubDate>
  <title>NSF supports exploring Arctic's complex human-nature changes</title>
  <description>Oct. 21, 2021 - $1.54 million National Science Foundation grant will support exploring consequences of climate change, natural resource development, shipping, and tourism in the Arctic.</description>
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  <pubDate>10/17/2021</pubDate>
  <title>This week on Radiolab: Of Bombs and Butterflies</title>
  <description>Oct. 15, 2021 - Nick Haddad walks Radiolab though two decades tricking beavers, dodging bombs, and rethinking the fundamental nature of life and death to save a butterfly from extinction.</description>
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  <pubDate>10/13/2021</pubDate>
  <title>Science of birds on the farm - a podcast</title>
  <description>Oct. 13, 2021 - MSU Extension discusses the science of birds on the farm and potential food safety information with EEB members Catherine Lindell and Olivia Smith.</description>
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  <pubDate>10/06/2021</pubDate>
  <title>EEB names two PhD students as the inaugural digital media fellows</title>
  <description>Oct. 6, 2021 - EEB grad students Katrina Culbertson and Beth Gerstner will embark on a year-long experience of training and creating in the field of science communication.</description>
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  <pubDate>10/05/2021</pubDate>
  <title>MSU group partners to harness the data revolution</title>
  <description>Oct. 5, 2021 - EEB members Jianguo “Jack” Liu and Sue Nichols will collaborate on a new NSF-funded national initiative to understand climate change and disaster risks and impacts.</description>
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  <pubDate>10/04/2021</pubDate>
  <title>Roughing it a little benefits pandas, EEB researchers find</title>
  <description>Oct. 3, 2021 - Newsweek Magazine is one of several news outlets that picked up research conducted by EEB alumni Thomas Connor and core faculty Jack Liu. "Panda sex" was the media's idea.</description>
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  <pubDate>09/29/2021</pubDate>
  <title>Litchman's paper links groundwater with lake algal blooms</title>
  <description>Sept. 29, 2021 - An interdisciplinary research project's published findings about harmful algal blooms could lead to ways to predict the blooms to mitigate their impacts.</description>
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  <pubDate>09/29/2021</pubDate>
  <title>NIH funds Josephs to explore evolutionary mysteries of biology</title>
  <description>Sept. 29, 2021 - A $1.9 million NIH grant will support a plant biology approach to answer how it is that within the same species, individual responses to stimuli can dramatically differ.</description>
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  <pubDate>09/26/2021</pubDate>
  <title>Cutting-edge Sherlock app to make fish sleuthing a snap</title>
  <description>Sept. 24, 2021 - Mariah Meek and postdoc Nadya Mamoozadeh will work to develop a user-friendly fish identification tools funded by an NSF Convergence Accelerator Grant.</description>
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  <pubDate>09/26/2021</pubDate>
  <title>EEB members design multifaceted approach to study microbiomes</title>
  <description>Sept. 24, 2021 - Elena Litchman and Christopher Klausmeier land a $936,000 NSF grant to investigate one of the most complex and abundant communities on Earth - microbiomes.</description>
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  <pubDate>09/22/2021</pubDate>
  <title>Fellowship to support grad student's biodiversity research in Africa</title>
  <description>Sept. 22, 2021 - The Russell E. Train Fellowship for Aspiring University Faculty from the World Wildlife Fund will support Sam Ayebare's research in an important ecoregion in central Africa.</description>
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  <pubDate>09/21/2021</pubDate>
  <title>EEB coder wins ICER fellowship and heads for the cloud</title>
  <description>Sept. 21, 2021 - PhD student Veronica Frans is awarded an MSU Cloud Computing Fellowship to receive training and support in developing research projects using cloud-based computing.</description>
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  <pubDate>09/17/2021</pubDate>
  <title>Beal Garden leadership transitions from one EEB member to another</title>
  <description>Sept. 17, 2021 - EEB's Frank Telewski is retiring from MSU and as the W.J. Beal Botanical Garden director after 29 years. Alan Prather in plant biology has been named interim director.</description>
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  <pubDate>09/15/2021</pubDate>
  <title>Liu recognized with World Sustainability Award</title>
  <description>Sept. 15, 2021 - Jack Liu is honored with the World Sustainability Award for groundbreaking work integrating both humans and nature, as well as translating the work into policy and practice.</description>
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  <pubDate>09/08/2021</pubDate>
  <title>New trail makes nature more accessible at Corey Marsh</title>
  <description>Sept. 8, 2021 - Jen Owen's work - and donations - has turned a 400-acre vegetable farm into a site for ecological restoration research and an outreach hub and gathering place for nature lovers.</description>
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  <pubDate>08/30/2021</pubDate>
  <title>Fish genetics reveal human health, evolutionary history insights</title>
  <description>Aug. 30, 2021 - Published in <em>Nature Genetics</em>, Andrew Thompson and Ingo Braasch led a project that included more than two dozen researchers to assemble the bowfin genome.</description>
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  <pubDate>08/25/2021</pubDate>
  <title>Mapping the lake trout genome to ensure the species' future</title>
  <description>Aug. 25, 2021 - PhD student Seth Smith and his team work to create a reference genome for lake trout to support state and federal agencies with reintroduction and conservation efforts.</description>
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    <img src="" alt="Mapping the lake trout genome to ensure the species' future"/>
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  <pubDate>08/19/2021</pubDate>
  <title>Is it getting too hot for Midwestern butterflies?</title>
  <description>Aug. 19, 2021 - With a grant from the Midwest Climate Adaptation Science Center, Elise Zipkin and colleagues will use 30 years of butterfly surveys to shed new light on the “Insect Apocalypse.”</description>
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    <img src="" alt="Is it getting too hot for Midwestern butterflies?"/>
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  <pubDate>08/18/2021</pubDate>
  <title>Biodiversity needs better data archiving</title>
  <description>Aug. 18, 2021 - An international team led by EEB postdoc Rachel Toczydlowski audited the largest global repository of genetic data to examine the associate metadata - and usability - of the data.</description>
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    <img src="" alt="Biodiversity needs better data archiving"/>
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  <pubDate>08/13/2021</pubDate>
  <title>Long-term evolution experiment informs how the coronavirus evolves</title>
  <description>Aug. 13, 2021 - EEB former director Richard Lenski lends wisdom from the Long-Term Evolution Experiment in an article on the likely path of Covid-19 in <em>The New Yorker</em>.</description>
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  <pubDate>08/09/2021</pubDate>
  <title>Advancing understanding of plant response to stress</title>
  <description>Aug. 9, 2021 - In <em>Evolution Letters, </em>Emily Josephs examines if a plant’s environmental response to stress is adaptive or just a sign that the stress is altering their ability to function.</description>
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    <img src="" alt="Advancing understanding of plant response to stress"/>
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  <pubDate>08/06/2021</pubDate>
  <title>Ecologists honored for endangered species forecasting work</title>
  <description>Aug. 6, 2021 - Sarah Saunders and Elise Zipkin created a model to understand threats to endangered species, earning the ESA Ecological Forecasting Outstanding Publication Award.</description>
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    <img src="" alt="Ecologists honored for endangered species forecasting work"/>
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  <pubDate>08/06/2021</pubDate>
  <title>EEB science scribe writes about Arctic seismic waves</title>
  <description>Aug. 6, 2021 - Integrative biology PhD candidate Lauren Koenig steps into another realm to write about earthquake risk gauged by sensors in the archipelago of Svalbard.</description>
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    <img src="/_assets/images/news/2021/eeb-science-scribe.jpg" alt="EEB science scribe writes about Arctic seismic waves"/>
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  <pubDate>08/05/2021</pubDate>
  <title>Decoding crop genetics with artificial intelligence</title>
  <description>Aug. 5, 2021 - Shin-Han Shiu leads a team aiming to give plants their best chance to withstand threats such as drought and disease using AI with a new $1.4 million grant from the NSF.</description>
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    <img src="" alt="Decoding crop genetics with artificial intelligence"/>
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<searchtags/></item><item href="/news/nsf-grant-to-integrate-research-and-science-outreach.aspx" dsn="blogs">
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  <pubDate>08/03/2021</pubDate>
  <title>NSF grant to integrate research and science outreach</title>
  <description>Aug. 3, 2021 - Entomology’s Henry Chung plans an innovative approach to use basic research to fuel new science outreach - including for students in STEM - at the MSU Bug House.</description>
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  <pubDate>07/29/2021</pubDate>
  <title>Two members receive USDA-NIFA postdoctoral fellowships</title>
  <description>July 29, 2021 - Postdocs Jennifer Jones and Olivia Smith will each receive $165,000 from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture to support their research projects.</description>
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    <img src="" alt="Two members receive USDA-NIFA postdoctoral fellowships"/>
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  <pubDate>07/19/2021</pubDate>
  <title>Climate change pressuring monarch butterflies</title>
  <description>July 19, 2021 - Erin Zylstra and EEB Director Elise Zipkin lead a team evaluating the causes behind monarch butterfly declines, published in <em>Nature Ecology and Evolution. </em></description>
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  <pubDate>07/14/2021</pubDate>
  <title>Inheriting mother's friends key to hyena success</title>
  <description>July 15, 2021 - In an article featured on the cover of <em>Science</em>, Kay Holekamp demonstrates how spotted hyenas' social networks inherited from their mothers are key to their success in life.</description>
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  <pubDate>06/30/2021</pubDate>
  <title>Grant helps MSU welcome bees and butterflies to campus</title>
  <description>June 30, 2021 - Not only does MSU have 20,000 trees on campus, it’s also becoming a more friendly place for bees, butterflies, and other native pollinators thanks to a new grant.</description>
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  <pubDate>06/29/2021</pubDate>
  <title>Exploring the relationship between zebra mussels and toxic algae</title>
  <description>June 29, 2021 - Stephen Hamilton is part of a team examining zebra mussels' relationship with toxic blue-green algae that forms harmful blooms in lakes, published in <em>Ecosphere.</em></description>
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    <img src="" alt="Exploring the relationship between zebra mussels and toxic algae"/>
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  <pubDate>06/28/2021</pubDate>
  <title>Toxoplasma induces fatally bold behavior in hyena cubs</title>
  <description>June 28, 2021 - Published in <em>Nature Communications</em>, a team of current and former EEB members finds that the parasite Toxoplasma<em/>is associated with bold behavior in hyena cubs.</description>
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    <img src="" alt="Toxoplasma induces fatally bold behavior in hyena cubs"/>
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  <pubDate>06/28/2021</pubDate>
  <title>Two grad students receive university fellowships</title>
  <description>June 28, 2021 - Two EEB doctoral students in Kay Holekamp's laboratory are awarded zoological scholarships from Michigan State University's College of Natural Science.</description>
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    <img src="" alt="Two grad students receive university fellowships"/>
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  <pubDate>06/19/2021</pubDate>
  <title>Borges wins Botanical Society research award</title>
  <description>June 19, 2021 - Integrative biology PhD candidate Isabella Borges receives award from the Botanical Society of America to promote graduate student research in the botanical sciences.</description>
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    <img src="" alt="Borges wins Botanical Society research award"/>
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  <pubDate>06/18/2021</pubDate>
  <title>Science blog covers longest running evolution experiment</title>
  <description>June 18, 2021 - The popular YouTube science blog Veritasium covers EEB member and former director Rich Lenski's three decades of research on evolution in a test tube.</description>
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    <img src="" alt="Science blog covers longest running evolution experiment"/>
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  <pubDate>06/14/2021</pubDate>
  <title>EEB digital media specialist explores visual storytelling</title>
  <description>June 14, 2021 - Digital media specialist Daniel Trego is featured for exploring the visual means of the preservation of natural habitats while studying through Photographers Without Borders.</description>
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    <img src="" alt="EEB digital media specialist explores visual storytelling"/>
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<searchtags/></item><item href="/news/liu-honored-with-gunnerus-award-in-sustainability-science.aspx" dsn="blogs">
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  <pubDate>06/10/2021</pubDate>
  <title>Liu honored with Gunnerus Award in Sustainability Science</title>
  <description>June 10, 2021 - EEB member Jianguo "Jack" Liu is the recipient of the first major international prize for outstanding scientific work that promotes sustainable development globally.</description>
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    <img src="" alt="Liu honored with Gunnerus Award in Sustainability Science"/>
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  <pubDate>06/03/2021</pubDate>
  <title>Simple app helps you avoid ticks this summer</title>
  <description>June 3, 2021 - The Tick App, created by Jean Tsao with scientists at Columbia University and the University of Wisconsin, makes reporting a tick easy and provides tips about tick prevention.</description>
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    <img src="" alt="Simple app helps you avoid ticks this summer"/>
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  <pubDate>06/01/2021</pubDate>
  <title>Ask the Expert: EEB's Brudvig fields Beal seed Twitter questions</title>
  <description>June 1, 2021 - Lars Brudvig held a Twitter "Ask Me Anything" session on May 25 to sow interest in MSU's Beal seed project and answer questions related to restoration, ecology, and plant biology.</description>
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    <img src="" alt="Ask the Expert: EEB's Brudvig fields Beal seed Twitter questions"/>
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  <pubDate>05/24/2021</pubDate>
  <title>Sand scrutiny takes sustainability stage</title>
  <description>May 24, 2021 - EEB member Jianguo "Jack" Liu is part of a team seeking to understand sand use and extraction and ways to achieve economic and environmental justice.</description>
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  <pubDate>05/20/2021</pubDate>
  <title>15 years of bee sampling reveals the effects of extreme weather</title>
  <description>May 20, 2021 - Rufus Isaacs and colleagues caught an unexpected glimpse of how variable weather can impact bees, reported in <em>Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment</em>.</description>
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  <pubDate>05/10/2021</pubDate>
  <title>Owen honored for innovated teaching</title>
  <description>May 10, 2021 - EEB faculty member Jen Owen has been awarded the Howard and Lili Camden Endowed Teacher/Scholar Award for her teaching innovation, many students and mentorship.</description>
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  <pubDate>05/07/2021</pubDate>
  <title>Academy honors Benbow for forensic science contributions</title>
  <description>May 7, 2021 - The American Academy of Forensic Sciences awarded Eric Benbow with the pathology/biology section’s “Achievement in the Forensic Life Sciences Award."</description>
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    <img src="" alt="Academy honors Benbow for forensic science contributions"/>
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  <pubDate>05/05/2021</pubDate>
  <title>EEB fellowships secure summer research for 12 graduate students</title>
  <description>May 5, 2021 - The PhD students, including two awarded the Don Hall Fellowship, are receiving funds that will enable them to spend the summer focused on their research.</description>
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    <img src="" alt="EEB fellowships secure summer research for 12 graduate students"/>
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  <pubDate>05/03/2021</pubDate>
  <title>Isabela Borges receives prestigious student research award</title>
  <description>May 3, 2021 - EEB graduate student is one of ten honored by the society with an award that supports research advancing conceptual unification of ecology, evolution, or behavior.</description>
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    <img src="" alt="Isabela Borges receives prestigious student research award"/>
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  <pubDate>04/30/2021</pubDate>
  <title>Jiquan Chen named Fulbright Global Scholar</title>
  <description>Apr 29, 2021 - EEB faculty member Jiquan Chen will represent the United States as a Fulbright scholar, promoting collaborations between MSU and European and Australian universities.</description>
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    <img src="" alt="Jiquan Chen named Fulbright Global Scholar"/>
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  <pubDate>04/26/2021</pubDate>
  <title>EEB plants support in member proposals with six seed grants</title>
  <description>
    <div style="text-align: left;">Apr 26, 2021 - EEB's new seed grant initiative will grow the ability for core faculty to put together competitive, collaborative proposals to external funding agencies.</div>
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    <img src="" alt="EEB plants support in member proposals with six seed grants"/>
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  <pubDate>04/23/2021</pubDate>
  <title>The New York Times digs 142-year-old Beal seed experiment</title>
  <description>Apr 23, 2021 - Four EEB faculty are featured in the story of MSU's venerable Beal seed viability project which every 20 years digs up bottles to understand mechanisms of plant survival.</description>
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    <img src="" alt="The New York Times digs 142-year-old Beal seed experiment"/>
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  <pubDate>04/22/2021</pubDate>
  <title>EEB postdoc recognized for excellence in mentoring</title>
  <description>Apr 22, 2021 - Sophie Picq is awarded the 2021 MSU Postdoctoral Excellence in Teaching and/or Mentoring Award (PETMA) for her support of undergraduate and graduate students.</description>
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  <pubDate>04/20/2021</pubDate>
  <title>MSU team explores environmental restoration's long-term picture</title>
  <description>Apr 20, 2021 - A team led by Lars Brudvig shows that restoration efforts can brighten an ecosystem’s future, but cannot erase its past in an article published in <em>PNAS</em>.</description>
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    <img src="" alt="MSU team explores environmental restoration's long-term picture"/>
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<searchtags/></item><item href="/news/jenna-walters-explores-climate-change-and-blueberry-pollination.aspx" dsn="blogs">
  <homehero/>
  <pubDate>04/12/2021</pubDate>
  <title>Jenna Walters explores climate change and blueberry pollination</title>
  <description>Apr 12, 2021 - EEB graduate student Jenna Walters shares her passion for entomology and insect photography, and her research on the impacts of extreme heat on blueberry pollination.</description>
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    <img src="" alt="Jenna Walters explores climate change and blueberry pollination"/>
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  <pubDate>04/09/2021</pubDate>
  <title>A discovery that 'literally changes the textbook'</title>
  <description>Apr 9, 2021 - In a new paper in <em>Science</em>, Ingo Braasch's expertise in fish biology and genetics helps researchers rewrite evolutionary history and shape future health studies.</description>
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    <img src="" alt="A discovery that 'literally changes the textbook'"/>
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  <description>Apr 6, 2021 - Three women bring impressive resumes and exciting ideas as the inaugural group of MSU Presidential Postdoctoral Fellows in Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior.</description>
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  <description>Apr 2, 2021 - Toby SantaMaria is a winner of the National Organization of Gay and Lesbian Scientists and Technical Professionals (NOGLSTP) Ben Barres Fellowship.</description>
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  <title>$2.8 million NIH grant supports Chris Waters's cholera work</title>
  <description>March 31, 2021 - Uncovering the genetics behind a cholera pandemic is being funded with a $2.8 million NIH grant to microbiology and molecular genetics professor Chris Waters.</description>
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  <description>March 11, 2021 - Elena Litchman is the recipient of the 2021 G. Evelyn Hutchinson Award from the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO).</description>
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  <description>March 10, 2021 - A core faculty member receives the William J. Beal Outstanding Faculty Award and two graduate students recognized for teaching in this year's All-University Awards.</description>
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  <description>Feb 19, 2021 - Rufus Isaacs leads a team in a new $325,000 USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture grant aimed to evaluate new blueberry pest management strategies.</description>
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  <description>Feb 12, 2021 - Experimental evolutionary biologist Richard Lenski has been awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Society for the Study of Evolution.</description>
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  <description>Feb 11, 2021 - Jean Tsao, Isis Arsnoe, and Genevieve Pang lead a study published in <em>PLOS Biology </em>exploring why tick-carrying lizards in the southern U.S. are less likely to carry Lyme Disease.</description>
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  <title>Studying how an infectious disease-causing pathogen thrives</title>
  <description>Feb 11, 2021 - Eric Benbow lands a $2.5 million NSF grant to study <em>Mycobacterium ulcerans</em>, a pathogen that causes infectious disease and flourishes in tropical regions.</description>
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  <description>Feb 3, 2021 - In a new paper published in <em>Nature</em>, a team including MSU's David Lowry examined the use of switchgrass plants in fighting climate change to improve crop growth.</description>
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  <description>Feb 3, 2021 - Two EEB core faculty members are among scientists shaking up the closely held geology belief that local things are related more than things far away.</description>
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  <description>Feb 1, 2021 - MSU's Sarah Evans is among 21 people named to the North American Cohort of the Earth Leadership Program, which trains outstanding researchers for environmental leadership.</description>
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  <description>Feb 1, 2021 - Katherine Skocelas, an EEB PhD student in the MSU College of Engineering, has been awarded a three-year National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship.</description>
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  <description>Jan 29, 2021 - Graduate student Laura Twardochleb and Phoebe Zarnetske led the largest census of freshwater insects ever undertaken in the United States, the first of its kind.</description>
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  <description>Jan 28, 2021 - One third of the core faculty in Michigan State University Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior Program are ranked among the most influential scientists in the world.</description>
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  <title>MSU researcher receives grant to continue lake sturgeon study</title>
  <description>Jan 25, 2021 - Kim Scribner has received a $780,000 grant from the Michigan Department of Natural Resources for research to restore declining lake sturgeon populations in Michigan.</description>
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  <title>Building on Beal: The power of basic science</title>
  <description>Jan 15, 2021 - The <em>MSU Alumni</em> magazine highlights Rich Lenski’s Long-Term Evolution Experiment (LTEE), which has produced over 73,000 generations of E. coli bacteria since 1988.</description>
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  <description>Dec 15, 2020 - In an essay commissioned by the UK's Royal Society, Jianguo "Jack" Liu discusses the new ways science can understand the tangle of human want, consumption, and conservation.</description>
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  <description>Nov 24, 2020 - Doug Landis named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for his role uncovering the effect of landscape structure in regulating insect biodiversity.</description>
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  <pubDate>11/03/2020</pubDate>
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  <description>Nov 3, 2020 - In a new paper published in PNAS, Nicolas Fernandez, Chris Waters and colleagues connect remarkable bacterial research across decades, from Minnesota to Michigan.</description>
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  <title>Fishing for answers to life's mysteries</title>
  <description>Nov 2, 2020 - Ingo Braasch was awarded a $1.6 million grant from the NSF to establish the spotted gar fish as a model organism to spur research in evolution, development and human biology.</description>
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  <title>Shocking biodiversity decline more than one-solution crisis</title>
  <description>Oct 22, 2020 - Jianguo "Jack" Liu is part of an international team of scientists analyzing multiple, interlinked and ambitious goals for nature in a United Nations effort published in <em>Science</em>.</description>
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  <description>Oct 16, 2020 - Jiquan Chen has joined several scholars in publishing the first in a planned series of volumes enabling the broader international community to explore the ecosystems of China.</description>
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  <description>Oct 5, 2020 - Postdoctoral researcher Nate Emery and colleagues examined the effectiveness of teaching professional development programs in a new study published in <em>Science Advances</em>.</description>
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  <description>Oct 1, 2020 - Marjorie Weber leads a $1 million NSF grant to study how inclusion of diverse role models in science instruction affects student attitudes about STEM courses and careers.</description>
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  <pubDate>09/28/2020</pubDate>
  <title>Mind the gap: A framework for addressing decision-implementation disparities in conservation management</title>
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  <description>Sep 25, 2020 - MSU professor Gary Roloff received the inaugural 'You Belong Here Champion Award' for seeing diversity, equity and inclusion as critical to developing effective STEM leaders.</description>
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  <title>"Sticky roots" and the fate of soil carbon in natural ecosystems</title>
  <description>Sep 23, 2020 - Carolyn Malmstrom is part of a research team awarded a $1 million Department of Energy (DOE) grant to study "sticky roots" and the fate of soil carbon in natural ecosystems.</description>
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  <pubDate>08/31/2020</pubDate>
  <title>NSF-funded project to track genetic adaptation to environmental change</title>
  <description>Aug 31, 2020 - Sarah Fitzpatrick will investigate the genetic factors that facilitate or limit adaptation with an NSF grant through the new Bridging Ecology and Evolution program.</description>
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  <pubDate>08/20/2020</pubDate>
  <title>CLIMBS-UP receives NSF grant to study inclusivity in STEM faculty</title>
  <description>Aug 20, 2020 - Kendra Spence Cheruvelil co-leads a collaborative, $1.4 million NSF grant between MSU and UM to study inclusive environments in STEM faculty and within academia.</description>
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  <pubDate>08/06/2020</pubDate>
  <title>Under climate change, good things come to bugs who wait</title>
  <description>Aug 6, 2020 - Graduate student Laura Twardochleb leads a team to determine how cold-blooded animals - whose body temperature depends on weather - will handle climate change.</description>
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  <description>Jul 29, 2020 - Sarah Evans received a $1.4 million grant from the NSF to study the effect that droughts have on soil and the carbon cycling process — a critical determinant of future climate change.</description>
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  <description>Jul 8, 2020 - Gideon Bradburd received a $1.84 million Early Stage Investigator Award from the NIH to study the spatial population genetics related to human adaption to the environment.</description>
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  <description>Jul 6, 2020 - Jessica Miesel received a grant from the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection to explore the ability of forests to be resilient and recover from forest fires.</description>
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  <description>Jun 26, 2020 - Marjorie Weber and Ash Zemenick explore a potential demographic mismatch in scientists featured in biology textbooks and the students who use them.</description>
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  <title>MSU biologist leads NSF grant to illuminate biodiversity with NEON</title>
  <description>Jun 12, 2020 - With a $1.5 million NSF grant, Phoebe Zarnetske will lead a team to investigate biodiversity and geodiversity using continental-scale data collected via NEON.</description>
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  <pubDate>06/07/2020</pubDate>
  <title>Novel statistical model pieces together biodiversity puzzle</title>
  <description>Jun 7, 2020 - Elise Zipkin received an NSF grant to unite diverse data sources into a novel and flexible statistical modeling framework to assess the status, trends and dynamics of biodiversity.</description>
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  <pubDate>06/02/2020</pubDate>
  <title>MSU postdoc receives grant to study Icelandic stickleback genome</title>
  <description>Jun 1, 2020 - Postdoc Whitley Lehto was awarded an Ecological, Evolutionary, and Conservation Genomics Research Award to study epigenetics and plasticity in the Iceland stickleback.</description>
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  <pubDate>06/01/2020</pubDate>
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  <description>Jun 1, 2020 - Fredric Janzen has been named director of the Michigan State University Kellogg Biological Station (KBS), effective June 1, 2020 and joins the faculty of the EEB program.</description>
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  <pubDate>05/29/2020</pubDate>
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  <description>May 29, 2020 - Mariah Meek received the 2020 Early Career Conservationist Award from the Society for Conservation Biology for her outstanding contributions to conservation using genomic data.</description>
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  <title>No-till agriculture increases crop yields and environmental gains</title>
  <description>May 18, 2020 - Sarah Cusser and Nick Haddad demonstrate significant benefits to the environment and crop yields for farmers practicing no-till versus tilled agriculture consistently over many years.</description>
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  <title>Academic ecosystems critical to sustainable postdoctoral workforce</title>
  <description>Apr 13, 2020 - In <em>Nature Ecology and Evolution</em>, a team of 13 current and former MSU postdoctoral researchers outline strategic reforms to support the world’s growing postdoctoral workforce.</description>
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  <title>The BEACON, the bacteria and the rough-skinned newt</title>
  <description>Apr 7, 2020 - Graduate student Patric Vaelli led a team to discover an invisible, and highly influential, neurotoxin-producing bacteria that lives on the rough-skinned newt's skin.</description>
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  <title>Legacy of past weather inscribed in stories of prairie plant restoration</title>
  <description>Apr 6, 2020 - Graduate student Anna Funk and colleagues investigated fields of data going back 20 years to find out why some replanted prairies are healthier than others.</description>
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  <pubDate>03/23/2020</pubDate>
  <title>MSU scientists put the heat on microbes</title>
  <description>Mar 23, 2020 - Ashley Shade's lab puts microbes under extreme heat to understand disaster response strategies that facilitate the rescue and recovery of these ecologically crucial communities.</description>
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  <pubDate>02/13/2020</pubDate>
  <title>The curious case of the disappearing snakes</title>
  <description>Feb 13, 2020 - In a <em>Science </em>cover article, Elise Zipkin and colleagues document the collapse of a tropical snake community after an invasive fungal pathogen wiped out most of the area’s frogs.</description>
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  <pubDate>02/01/2020</pubDate>
  <title>New MSU research center focusing on natural resources</title>
  <description>Feb 1, 2020 - The Corey Marsh Ecological Research Center, an ideal spot for natural resources and ecological restoration research, will be led by Jen Owen and host long-term research projects.</description>
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  <pubDate>01/29/2020</pubDate>
  <title>The birds and the trees: Scientists use remote sensing data to help explain patterns of life</title>
  <description>Jan 29, 2020 - Satellite remote sensing technology is giving a research team led by Phoebe Zarnetske a powerful lens to view landscapes that set the stage for earth’s biodiversity.</description>
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  <title>Scientists improve yield predictions based on seedling data</title>
  <description>Jan 8, 2020 - Using seedling data, Shinhan Shiu has shown that farmers and scientists can improve adult crop trait predictions with accuracy that rivals current approaches using genetic data.</description>
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  <pubDate>01/06/2020</pubDate>
  <title>Trinidad's streams provide natural lab for genetic rescue research</title>
  <description>Jan 6, 2020 - In a new paper in <em>Current Biology, </em>Sarah Fitzpatrick and colleagues examine genetic rescue by tagging close to 10,000 Trinidadian guppies to study evolution in the wild.</description>
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  <pubDate>01/02/2020</pubDate>
  <title>Nature cover story: All global sustainability is local</title>
  <description>Jan 2, 2020 - Jianguo "Jack" Liu and colleagues developed systematic methods to perform a first assessment of a country’s progress in achieving sustainable development goals.</description>
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