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Home | accolades
Robin Waterman stands in the middle of a rectangular plot marked with small white flags on a sunny summer day, one of four field plots for her reciprocal transplant field experiment. Credit: Brooke Catlett.

KBS graduate student awarded fellowship to continue research on common Michigan weeds

11.01.23

Robin Waterman, a W.K. Kellogg Biological Station graduate student in the Conner Lab, has been awarded a multi-year fellowship from the USDA Agriculture and Food Research Institute. The pre-doctoral fellowship, from the Institute's ... Read More

Corinn Rutkoski stands in a prairie strip — a ribbon-like planting of native flowers and grasses interspersed in a field of row crops — smiling and holding a shovel.

Doctoral candidate receives outreach award, begins fellowship with Kellogg Bird Sanctuary

06.22.23

Corinn Rutkoski, a Ph.D. candidate in Dr. Sarah Evans’ lab at W.K. Kellogg Biological Station, has joined the Kellogg Bird Sanctuary as its 2023 social media fellow. In that role, she will help Sanctuary staff conceptualize, create and ... Read More

Headshot portrait of Dr. Kadeem J. Gilbert.

Gilbert’s research recognized by the American Society of Plant Biologists’ early investigator award

06.01.23

Kadeem J. Gilbert, W.K. Kellogg Biological Station faculty member and assistant professor in the Michigan State University College of Natural Science’s Department of Plant Biology, has received a prestigious award that recognizes ... Read More

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KBS commitment to fostering an inclusive culture garners accolade from MSU

04.30.23

W.K. Kellogg Biological Station’s dedication to making diversity, equity, inclusion and social justice central to KBS culture has earned an Excellence in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion unit award from Michigan State University. The ... Read More

Head shot portrait of Jeffrey K. Conner.

Conner begins term as president-elect of the American Society of Naturalists

02.07.23

Three new officers elected last year by the American Society of Naturalists—ASN—have begun their terms. Among them is Jeff Conner, professor in Michigan State University’s Department of Plant Biology and resident faculty at the W.K. ... Read More

A diverse perennial polyculture treatment at the KBS GLBRC site features native prairie forbs and grasses.

Article featuring KBS research wins outstanding paper award

01.30.23

A paper that examines best practices for improving soil health over time has been recognized as outstanding by the American Society of Agronomy, or ASA. The paper, spearheaded by W.K. Kellogg Biological Station resident faculty and MSU ... Read More

W.K. Kellogg Biological Station 2022 summer students and mentors pose for a group photo on a set of stairs with trees in the background.

KBS commitment to diversity and inclusion yields results, recognition

11.30.22

W.K. Kellogg Biological Station has received the 2022 Advancing Equity Award from the Organization of Biological Field Stations—OBFS—for its wide-ranging dedication to supporting an inclusive environment. The award recognizes KBS as a ... Read More

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Robertson honored by LTAR Network for local, national contributions

09.29.22

Phil Robertson, Michigan State University Distinguished Professor of Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences at the W.K. Kellogg Biological Station, is the recipient of two awards from the U.S. Long-term Agroecosystem Research Network, or ... Read More

Head shot of Cinnamon Mittan standing on a beach.

KBS postdoc Mittan wins 2022 W.D. Hamilton Award of the Society for the Study of Evolution

07.26.22

A recent talk by W.K. Kellogg Biological Station postdoctoral research associate Cinnamon Mittan has garnered praise and an award for outstanding work. Mittan's talk,"Adaptation during range expansion: A phylogenetic, population ... Read More

Head shot portrait of Jeffrey K. Conner.

Conner among small cohort of 2022 Outstanding Faculty Award honorees

06.14.22

Jeffrey K. Conner, professor of plant biology in Michigan State University's College of Natural Science, resident faculty researcher at the W.K. Kellogg Biological Station, and former interim director at KBS, has been honored with a 2022 ... Read More

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