Tag: Biology
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Video: Tiny Earth Collaboration is inspiring the next generation of scientists and healthcare professionals
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UW-Green Bay’s Tiny Earth program collaborated with Green Bay West High School’s Serious About Stem program (SAS), to develop a high school Tiny Earth program for student-sourcing antibiotic discovery. The pipeline program brought SAS high school students to the UW-Green Bay campus to learn microbiology skills during a summer camp followed by soil research for…
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Prof. de Hart published in Journal of Fish Biology
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UW-Green Bay Associate Vice Chancellor for Graduate Studies and Research and Professor Pieter deHart (Biology, Natural and Applied Science) published the recent article “Isotopic niche alteration of a predator fish in a dammed Amazonian black-water river” in the journal “Journal of Fish Biology”. The work highlights the environmental impacts of hydroelectric dams on a critically…
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Stop worrying so much about spiders, Wisconsin arachnid researcher says | Wisconsin Public Radio
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Though biology professor Mike Draney’s field of research is spiders, a big part of his job is focused on humans — mostly reassuring people that spider fears are overblown. “It’s about us. It’s not about them,” said Draney, head of the natural and applied sciences department at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. “It’s a psychological…
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Where are the Mosquitoes? | WBAY
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It’s a question we’ve heard repeated over and over this summer: where are all the mosquitoes? Not than anyone is complaining about a lack of buzzing around their ears. They are often one of the few downsides to our Wisconsin summers, and yet this summer, many are struggling to recall a season with so few…
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Center for Biodiversity Part of Eco U Tradition
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The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay—known as Eco U since its founding in 1965—sits in a unique location, overlooking the bay of Green Bay. It’s home to the 290-acre Cofrin Memorial Arboretum, which provides valuable habitat and ecosystem resources for students and faculty conducting research.The hub of that research activity is the Cofrin Center for Biodiversity,…
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Adopt-A-Rat 2022 (they are friendly, social and very intelligent)
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It’s time to Adopt-A-Rat. The UW-Green Bay Anatomy and Physiology students have been working with laboratory rats over the course of the year, and have 16 females up for adoption that have been raised since they were a few weeks old. One group is seven-months old, and the other is 19-months old. This strain of…
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UW-Green Bay authors lead peer-reviewed paper on soil health in the Great Lakes basin
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Prof. and Extension Specialist, Kevin Fermanich (Natural & Applied Sciences), Assistant Researcher, Molly Meyers (Environmental Management & Business Institute), Associate Prof. Karen Stahlheber (Biology), and Cofrin School of Business Dean, Mathew Dornbush, co-author a peer-reviewed article in the Journal of Environmental Quality. The article, “Challenges in linking soil health to edge-of-field water quality across the…
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Students highlight diverse research at Cofrin Center for Biodiversity Student Research Symposium
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The 31st Cofrin Student Research Symposium was held on Tuesday, April 12, 2022: Subject matter was ladyslipper orchid mycorrhizae, pollinator pollen load and pollen database, a photographic flora of Toft and Ridges, Richter Museum fish specimen curation, a review on polyploid plants and animals, soil surveys at Wequiock Creek, and muskrats at Point au Sable!…
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Cofrin Center for Biodiversity Student Research Grants Program, April 12
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On Tuesday, April 12, 2022, student researchers and artists funded by the Cofrin Center for Biodiversity Student Research Grants Program will be sharing their findings at the 31st Annual Cofrin Center for Biodiversity Student Research Symposium. This year’s group of seven students will be added to the list of more than 200 recipients of these…