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

The week of June 19, KBS hosted ecologists Dr. Sarah Hobbie and Dr. Jacques Finlay as part of its Eminent Ecologist Seminar Series. The series began in 1983, and has brought more than 80 speakers to KBS. Dr. Sarah Hobbie led off the ... Read More

It’s a common assumption that a person with a science degree is going to become a science researcher. But I’ve found that this isn’t true—there are many students of science interested in other career paths, and many options available to ... Read More

Since the recent election, many people have been inspired to get involved in politics locally and up to the federal level. Funding for science and environmental regulation, in particular, is threatened. Although some thrive at civic ... Read More

I’m Bonnie McGill, a KBS PhD student doing a USAID Borlaug fellowship in Botswana. The goal of my research is to determine the source of nitrate in a contaminated aquifer in Ramotswa, Botswana, and how the groundwater chemistry changes ... Read More

This year I am doing my third sabbatical, based at Oregon State University in Corvallis. I have found that people often have an incorrect impression that a sabbatical is basically a vacation for professors. It’s not a vacation, but it is a ... Read More

  My aching arms finally pulled up the last soil core of the day.  Dusk had come sooner than expected, and the transparent warming chambers I was working in quickly transformed into ominous black boxes that faded into the ... Read More