W.K. Kellogg Biological Station • Michigan State University

KBS summer students share their work

Undergraduate researchers and interns present their projects at the annual KBS Undergraduate Research Symposium.
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Taking the long view on impacts of invasive species

Decades-long data set helps researchers home in on relationship between invasive mussels, toxic algae in Gull Lake.
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New economics on the farm

Bruno Basso and collaborator win $250K award to support soil carbon inventory initiative.
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Making natural connections

Graduate student Isabela Borges wins award for research exploring effects of inbreeding on plant-rhizobia mutualism.
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Excellence in aquatic ecology

Professor Elena Litchman awarded prestigious honor for her contributions to the field.
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Three undergraduate college students, one holding a microphone, stand next to large research posters mounted on wooden stands. The student with the microphone speaks to a group of people standing nearby.

A cluster of invasive zebra mussels sits on the sandy floor of Gull Lake.

Image of a prescription map, showing which areas of an agricultural field are successful in growing conventional drops and which are not.

Panorama photo of plants in black plastic pots sitting on a table inside a greenhouse, that are part of Borges's research.

Images of microscopic plankton of different shapes, in a fluorescent green light against a dark background.