Please join us for the KBS K-12 Partnership Spring Workshop on April 14, 2016 from 8am-4pm. Preparing Tomorrow's Scientists: Technology in the Classroom 2016Agenda_K-12PartnershipSpringWorkshop_FINAL Thanks to the 39 ... Read More
Animal behavior lessons for spring
Spring is fast approaching, and with the warming temperatures many animals will soon be out and about searching for food and mates. With this in mind, this week we are featuring three lessons covering the topic of animal ... Read More
Happy birthday, Darwin! Lessons to celebrate
February 12 is Charles Darwin’s birthday. We wanted to highlight just a few of the many resources available for anyone who might want to use this opportunity to discuss Darwin’s work on evolution and natural selection. We’ve created many ... Read More
Fitzpatrick publishes in Evolutionary Applications
We congratulate Dr. Sarah Fitzpatrick, a postdoctoral research associate at KBS, on the publication of her research on genetic rescue in Guppies in Trinidad in Evolutionary Applications. Fitzpatrick collaborated on the publication with ... Read More
May 3, 2016, Dessert with Discussion
Dessert with Discussion: Historical and projected future climate in Michigan and the Great Lakes Region Tuesday, May 3, 2016 in the Kellogg Biological Station Auditorium Join us for another fascinating Dessert with Discussion, ... Read More
Meet the K-12 Partnership Fellows
Fellow Educators, Take yourself back to the distant past, to the 2012-2013 academic year. The year that the Summer Institute was a glorious week long, and the Spring Workshop had an early 2000’s rap theme (“99 Problems But A Root Ain’t ... Read More
Winter-friendly K-12 lesson plans
This week we are highlighting three winter friendly lesson plans. If you would like to have a fellow come to your class to help with these lessons (or any of the other lesson plans found in our interactive table) please send a ... Read More
Dr. Steph Januchowski-Hartley’s REU experience
It was an early spring morning in the early 2000s. Back then I was a Natural Resource Management undergraduate at Grand Valley State University, and I was interested in finding opportunities to gain research experience and get paid! I had ... Read More
KBS genetic research of feral chickens featured in Nature
Congratulations to KBS research associate and evolutionary biologist, Eben Gering, on having his genetic research of feral chickens on Kauai recently featured in Nature. Read the full story and listen to a podcast on the research on the ... Read More
Grant to help increase biofuel yield while limiting fertilizer use
Michigan State University has netted a $5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to better understand how biofuel crops acquire nitrogen, insights that could help maximize yields while minimizing fertilizer use. Sarah Evans, an ... Read More
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