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Inside the Pond Lab: Studying climate change through aquatic species at KBS

07.23.25

At Michigan State University’s W.K. Kellogg Biological Station, Dr. Alisha Shah and her team conduct hands-on fieldwork to better understand how climate change affects aquatic related organisms. On June 3, 2025, members of the Shah Lab, ... Read More

Sprunger receives TAP Award, recognized as changemaker in global food security

07.07.25

W.K. Kellogg Biological Station faculty member Christine Sprunger is one of 39 visionaries named to the 2025 Top Agri-food Pioneers, or TAP, list by the World Food Prize Foundation. Now in its second year, the TAP list honors individuals ... Read More

Phil Robertson elected to National Academy of Sciences for 2025

06.30.25

Phil Robertson, University Distinguished Professor of ecosystem science at the W.K. Kellogg Biological Station and in Michigan State University’s Department of Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences, has been elected to the National Academy of ... Read More

Elena Litchman named a fellow by the Ecological Society of America

05.02.25

Elena Litchman, a W.K. Kellogg Biological Station faculty member and MSU Research Foundation Professor of aquatic ecology in Michigan State University’s Department of Integrative Biology, is one of eight recent fellows named by the ... Read More

Haddad among four MSU researchers named AAAS Fellows

04.02.25

In March 2025, W.K. Kellogg Biological Station faculty member Nick Haddad, along with Michigan State University colleagues Gemma Reguera, Laura McCabe and Michael Thoennessen, were recognized as 2024 fellows of the American Association for ... Read More

A country without butterflies? New study raises the possibility

03.28.25

A sweeping new study published in the journal Science tallies, for the first time, butterfly data from more than 76,000 surveys across the continental United States. The results: From 2000 to 2020, the total butterfly abundance fell by 22% ... Read More