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Excellence, recognized: Accolades abound for KBS faculty, staff and students

12.09.25

Over the past fiscal year, the outstanding work of W.K. Kellogg Biological Station faculty, staff and students has been highlighted with a variety of university, regional, and national awards. Awards from July 2024 to June 2025 Sierra ... Read More

Fourth-grade students examine bones on the forest floor through a partnership with KBS staff and graduate students.

Extending our reach: Impacts of KBS programs felt on farms, in K-12 classrooms

12.09.25

The W.K. Kellogg Biological Station’s goals of research, education and outreach challenge us to move our studies of ecology and sustainable agriculture outside the borders of the labs and fields of KBS. This year, KBS research reached the ... Read More

Group photo of KBS summer undergraduate students, taken on an outdoor staircase.

Undergrads: Apply now for KBS summer programs

12.01.25

Calling all undergraduate students looking for an unforgettable summer experience—applications are now open for W.K. Kellogg Biological Station’s 2026 summer programs. A KBS summer KBS hosts students each summer for a pair of ... Read More

Lauren Sullivan sprinkles seeds in a grassland area.

Thursday, Nov. 6 | Dessert with Discussion: A Day in the Life of a Seed

10.23.25

Join the W.K. Kellogg Biological Station community at 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 6, for a talk, titled, “A Day in the Life of a Seed.” The basics About The presenter for the fall 2025 Dessert with Discussion talk is Dr. ... Read More

Corn is harvested in a field at the W.K. Kellogg Biological Station.

MSU, KBS team develops scalable climate solutions for agricultural carbon markets

09.26.25

Recent research from Michigan State University, led by W.K. Kellogg Biological Station faculty member and agricultural systems scientist Bruno Basso, addresses a major problem in agricultural carbon markets: how to set an accurate starting ... Read More

Autumn view of the Academic Building at the W.K. Kellogg Biological Station.

MSU colleges of Natural Science and Agriculture and Natural Resources, KBS students present at ESA’s annual meeting

09.01.25

Numerous students from Michigan State University’s colleges of Natural Science and Agriculture and Natural Resources were selected to present their research at the annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America, or ESA. Several ... Read More

A red-cockaded woodpecker perches on a small tree trunk.

On a Florida bombing range, endangered woodpeckers get a second chance

08.25.25

Conservation biologists from Michigan State University are looking back through time to determine the success of a 30-year intervention and monitoring project designed to rescue the red-cockaded woodpecker, a long-imperiled bird living ... Read More

Cherith Pickett stands in a corn field holding a soil sampling tool.

The best field trip since elementary school

08.14.25

Earlier this summer I went to a farmers market in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where I bought some ancient grains from Shady Side Farms. Little did I know that my summer job would bring me back to that farm. Initially, when I knew I would be ... Read More

A small-eyed sphinx moth (Paonias myops) on a white sheet with a colored pattern.

Shining a light on moths

08.11.25

When I first arrived at the W.K. Kellogg Biological Station, I was greeted by thousands of mayflies. This may be your nightmare, but to me, it was thrilling.   Some would say my study species for the summer, the monarch ... Read More

The Shah Lab’s Postdoctoral Research Associate Rosemary Martin holding an eastern red-spotted newt from inside the KBS pond lab.

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

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