Category: Lab News

News, events and recent happenenings

Kiley Featured by Entomological Society Meeting Video

Videographers had a chance to catch up with Kiley at her poster to get her research story from this summer.  Check it out below!  

Graduate Student position available

We are re-opening our search for a fully-funded RA for a PhD student position in our group.  Please read the full announcement here. We stop taking applications Sept. 30, 2015.  Position would start in Spring 2016.

Farming on the Margins

Kiley and Jade are headed off to Virginia for the summer!  In partnership with GLBRC, Pheasants Forever,  and FDC Enterprises, they are examining how different types of pollinator strips planted along margins of switchgrass fields (e.g., high floral diversity (like the one pictured), low floral diversity, and no strips) influence pollinator communities and pollination services.  …

Kaitlin awarded Graduate Peer Mentor Award

Kaitlin has been awarded a 2015 Graduate Peer Mentor Award from the UW Graduate school!  Congratulations to her for her dedication to training some of the very talented undergraduate scientists our lab is fortunate to host.   Additionally, thank you to Kaitlin for helping guide some of the newer graduate students and always providing a wealth …

Pollinator Planning in Wisconsin

There is good reason to be concerned about reports of worldwide pollinator decline. We owe gratitude to flower-loving birds, bats and bees every time we give a bouquet to a loved one, take a sip of orange juice, or put ketchup and mustard on our hamburgers. The plants that produce most of our favorite flowers, …