After a competitive national search, Michigan State University has selected Bryan L. Foster, Ph.D., as the next director of the W.K. Kellogg Biological Station. Foster, a two-time MSU alumnus and accomplished field ecologist, began his ... Read More
Nick Haddad receives a 2025-26 Outstanding Faculty Award
Michigan State University’s College of Natural Science has announced the 2025-26 recipients of their Outstanding Faculty Award. Nick Haddad, a professor in MSU’s Department of Integrative Biology and a resident faculty member at the W.K. ... Read More
Farming meets solar power in new MSU project; lab to be based at KBS
Michigan State University scientists plan to build a first-of-its-kind outdoor lab to study how solar panels placed alongside crops could save water, improve soil health and support ecosystems, all while boosting farmers’ bottom line and ... Read More
IT staff awarded grant; needed tech improvements in the works
Anybody who's ever had an emergency-level tech malfunction appreciates how information technology professionals save the day on a daily basis. The W.K. Kellogg Biological Station IT staff recently came to the rescue for KBS on a longer-term ... Read More
Recent paper from KBS graduate students, undergrads, faculty, examines the lives of wild radish-visiting pollinators in slow-mo
A paper that used slow-motion videos of pollinators to study why wild radish flowers have four long plus two short pollen-producing stamens, was published in September 2025 in the journal Royal Society Open Science. The paper, titled ... Read More
KBS lab safety efforts draw accolades
Safety first is a fundamental tenet in all laboratories, and W.K. Kellogg Biological Station researchers and staff have garnered praise for maintaining safe facilities. Brian Balcom, operations and safety; Holly Vander Stel, Evans Lab ... Read More
Habitat loss causing inbreeding problems in Michigan Eastern Massasauga Rattlesnake populations
Roads, buildings and farms are preventing Michigan’s only rattlesnake from finding mates outside of their population. A 15-year study shows that fragmentation into smaller, more isolated patches is likely reducing the threatened snake’s ... Read More
MSU, KBS team develops scalable climate solutions for agricultural carbon markets
Recent research from Michigan State University, led by W.K. Kellogg Biological Station faculty member and agricultural systems scientist Bruno Basso, addresses a major problem in agricultural carbon markets: how to set an accurate starting ... Read More
A lack of attention to warming winters can paint an incomplete picture of how plants respond to climate change
Scientists may be underestimating how plants will respond to rising global temperatures when they study hot summers but not warming winters, Michigan State University ecologists found. An MSU team synthesized data from 126 simulated ... Read More
On a Florida bombing range, endangered woodpeckers get a second chance
Conservation biologists from Michigan State University are looking back through time to determine the success of a 30-year intervention and monitoring project designed to rescue the red-cockaded woodpecker, a long-imperiled bird living ... Read More
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