Who knew my summer in Michigan would include laying belly-flopped in a stream, yelling in frustration over the two-inch fish that had just bolted off, as my waders filled with cold water? Maybe I should back up. My name is Daniel Oliveira, ... Read More

“What research would you propose?” A few minutes into our conversation, a phone interview for the summer Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) internship I’d applied for at Kellogg Biological Station, we’d moved past the questions I ... Read More

This past spring I co-taught an upper-level MSU undergraduate class on Global Change Biology with fellow KBS Assistant Professor, Dr. Sarah Evans. Throughout the semester we discovered no shortage of urgent headlines to illustrate the wide ... Read More

Wearables have the potential to impact lives and even shape policy in the area of environmental health. From step counters to sleep monitors, wearables are increasingly changing the way in which people think about their health. Designers ... Read More

This summer, I took WRA 341: Nature and Environmental Writing, which offers students a chance to work on developing professional content in multiple formats in subjects like environmental justice. On June 7, I went with a group of my ... Read More

I grew up less than an hour from Detroit, in an area so suburban that residents have complained about the color of the flowers people plant in their yards. Growing up, I only visited three places in Detroit— the Detroit Institute of Art, ... Read More