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Students in masks and snorkels

Waders half full, or half empty?

04.16.19

KBS 2018 undergraduate summer researcher Sharon Carpenter is a junior at Michigan State University. She wrote about her Undergraduate Research Assistant project working with mentor Dr. Sarah Fitzpatrick. ... Read More

Stark conducting research in greenhouse

Trying something new: A home away from home

04.12.19

Kellogg Biological Station (KBS) 2018 undergraduate summer researcher, Cassie Stark, is a junior at James Madison University and a biology major. She wrote about her KBS Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) project working ... Read More

My opportunity of a lifetime

04.10.19

Kellogg Biological Station (KBS) 2018 undergraduate summer researcher, Samantha Turner, is a junior at Michigan State University (MSU) and a Human Biology major, with aspirations of becoming a physician. She wrote about ... Read More

KBS REU Emily Lindback taking albedo measurements over native grasses, photo taken by drone.

SLAM: Scientists Love Acronyms, Man

02.21.19

KBS 2018 undergraduate summer researcher Emily Lindback is a junior at Franklin and Marshall College. She wrote about her Research Experiences for Undergraduates project working with mentor and LTER researcher ... Read More

Summer program participants in the field at KBS

Ally Brown: My summer as an Undergraduate Research Apprentice at KBS

11.26.18

Kellogg Biological Station (KBS) is an extension of MSU campus and a hub for research relating to agriculture and ecology. Not many undergraduates know about KBS or are aware that they have the opportunity to spend the summer there. However ... Read More

Moving forward in the dark: Sean Griffin and his bees

08.27.18

Science is often a series of failures that teach us how to succeed. After a first field season riddled with messes, graduate student Sean Griffin is making a beeline toward his research on pollinators in his second year of field ... Read More

Wetzel comes to KBS to conduct research on plant-insect relationships

08.23.18

Will Wetzel, an assistant professor in MSU’s Department of Entomology, has been coming to KBS to conduct field research for the past two years. He and his team of students and postdoctoral researchers are interested in understanding ... Read More

Students walk along the dock at the Gull Lake Marina at sunset.

A change of scenery: From community college to climate change

08.15.18

Kellogg Biological Station (KBS) 2018 undergraduate summer researcher, Jessica Waters, left MiraCosta College in California for a summer at KBS. She wrote about her KBS Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) project working with ... Read More

Mridul Thomas in Antarctica

KBS alumni update: Mridul Thomas

07.24.18

In 2007 Mridul Thomas arrived in Hickory Corners from India to pursue a Ph.D. in Elena Litchman’s lab. Since earning his Ph.D. in Zoology and Ecology, Evolutionary Biology & Behavior from MSU, Thomas spent almost three years as a ... Read More

Learning from each other at MEEC: Robert Logan

06.19.18

Each spring, over 200 early career researchers (mostly undergraduate and graduate students) meet for the three-day Midwest Ecology and Evolution Conference. Usually, the conference is held at a large university, but this year was different. ... Read More

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