Ants Ants are the janitors of the forest, cleaning up dead stuff and making way for new life. They sometimes help spread seeds to grow new plants, too. When ants build tunnels in the soil, they aerate it and recirculate nutrients essential for plant growth. Ants are also social animals, notes Olav… Continue reading…
Dr. John Z. Kiss, Biology Professor and Dean of College of Arts and Sciences UNCG featured in the Interplanetary Podcast (from London) discussing his career as a space biologist. Interview starts at 29:15. THE INTERPLANETARY PODCAST Putting the Ace back into Space https://www.interplanetary.org.uk/post/191-john-kiss-to-boldly-grow Here is another podcast: interview starts at… Continue reading…
Hello Biology Department! Today, June 19, is a North Carolina recognized holiday known as Juneteenth. Juneteenth is a day to reflect on and celebrate the end of slavery in the United States. While the emancipation proclamation was signed on January 1, 1863, many slave owners suppressed the message so they… Continue reading…
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Congratulations to Dr. Akira Terui for a $387505 grant from the National Science Foundation for his project titled “The role of branching complexity in driving food chain length in rivers.”
Congratulations to Joe Santin for a five year $354,603 grant from NIH for his project titled “Acquiring resistance to anoxia in neural circuit function” AND a three year $637093 grant from the United States Department of Defense for his project titled “A Novel Model to Improve Neural Performance During Oxygen… Continue reading…
Kathryn Bloodworth, Ph.D. student in the Koerner lab has been awarded a summer fellowship with The Nature Conservancy to study prescribed fire effects on biodiversity in which she will conduct an literature review, meta-analysis, and data set establishment for publication in a restoration or ecology journal.
Dear Colleagues, Like all of you, I have been watching the impact of centuries of racism and violence against BIPOC in this country, culminating in the most recent deaths of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and George Floyd, and the nationwide protest demonstrations that are ongoing. This is all in a time… Continue reading…
Taylor Crawford has a lot to look forward to after she graduates this May with a BS degree in biology. Taylor won the prestigious Postbaccalaureate Intramural Research Training Award (IRTA) to participate in a program at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bathesda, MD. Taylor will be working for two… Continue reading…
Congratulations to Sally Koerner for a four year, $499,991 grant from the USDA NIFA Agriculture and Food Research Initiative to for her project titled “Assessing impacts of patch-burn grazing management on sustainability of multiple agroecosystem services.”
